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ACP addresses ethical issues for ‘grateful patients’ physician fundraising
“Physicians who directly solicit funds from their own patients do risk interfering with the physician-patient relationship, which is supposed to...
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It’s safe to skip SLNB for small, ultrasound-negative breast cancer
Trial results support “the argument that sentinel node positivity is not, in and of itself, a critical parameter that determines therapeutic plans...
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Endoscopic monitoring may not be needed for nonerosive GERD
Patients with confirmed nonerosive GERD are not at greater risk for esophageal cancer but those with erosive disease had more than double the...
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Older women who get mammograms risk overdiagnosis
The proportion of older women who continue to receive screening mammograms and may experience breast cancer overdiagnosis is “considerable” and “...
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Omitting sentinel lymph node biopsy safe for some early breast cancers
Data support “the argument that sentinel node positivity is not, in and of itself, a critical parameter that determines therapeutic plans and...
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High-risk colon polyps detected at screening colonoscopy linked to liver cancer death
“Our findings imply that risk stratification at colonoscopy might be helping to identify patients at need for liver cancer surveillance.”
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Cancer incidence has increased in patients under age 50
“Prevention and early detection measures are urgently required, along with identifying optimal treatment strategies for early-onset cancers, which...
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Surgery approach may improve survival in advanced ovarian cancer
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Discussing family history post–genetic testing may prevent breast cancer overtreatment
A first-degree family history confers higher cancer risk, thus family history should be taken into consideration to limit exposing lower-risk...
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High rate of subsequent cancers in MCC
Patients with cutaneous Merkel cell carcinoma face a higher risk of developing other primary cancers
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Blueprint to curb postop opioids after pancreatic resection
Median discharge oral morphine equivalents dropped from 150 mg to 25 mg and then to 0 mg across the progressively refined pathways.