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Adhering to endocrine therapy is hard. What can be done?
Given the array of potential obstacles to endocrine therapy adherence, improving long-term use may be equally complex.
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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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How targeted drugs can vanquish a virulent leukemia
Targeted therapies have revolutionized the treatment of AML, yet outcomes could be better, and these costly new drugs don’t suit all patients.
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Have early-onset cancer cases soared? Not so fast, experts say
“Epidemic news, but no epidemic of cancer.”
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Therapeutic vaccine shows promise in treating lung cancer
“We realized that just half of patients really benefited from the vaccine: those who had previously responded to immunotherapy.”
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Surgery approach may improve survival in advanced ovarian cancer
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Nationwide hematologists shortage: What’s being done?
Efforts are underway to alleviate an acute shortage of U.S. physicians who’ve been trained to treat hemostasis, thrombosis and other blood...
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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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Do doctors have a legal right to work from home because of health issues or disability?
“There is now a precedent and examples all over that working from home for some is a viable alternative to working in the hospital or a clinic.”...
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The top tax breaks that physicians use
“You want to maximize your retirement contributions,” says Mark Steber, the chief tax information officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services. “If you...