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Hospital guards snoop through patient records, cost hospital $240K
“I think the problem is absolutely growing.”
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Short bursts of activity may cut cancer risk
Examples of such activity are vigorous housework, carrying heavy shopping bags around the grocery store, bursts of power walking, and playing high...
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Survival, QoL trump PFS for most patients with cancer
“The results of our study demonstrate that more than half of patients with advanced cancer would not want a treatment that delays time to...
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Anticoagulants for cancer-related VTE: What works best?
These data may “help facilitate shared decision-marking and inform clinical guidelines for the treatment of such patients.”
Conference Coverage
Do some randomized controlled trials stack the deck?
“In the ethical design of clinical trials, patients make important sacrifices to participate, and in exchange, the academic and clinical...
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Oral cancer drugs requiring prior authorization on the rise
“Utilization management may be appropriate for some oncology drugs, such as those approved with provisional evidence of efficacy.”
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Atezolizumab in NSCLC: Push the positive, bury the negative?
“We can’t tolerate over broad borderline deception that leads to poor and wasteful decision-making.”
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MRI-guided SBRT cuts radiation toxicity in prostate cancer
“These findings suggest that the technical advantages in precision of radiotherapy delivery afforded by MRI-guided SBRT translate to measurable...
Conference Coverage
‘Treatment holiday’ in prostate cancer with tailored dosing
“Personalizing dosing intervals using early-response biomarkers with 177Lu-PSMA has the potential to achieve similar overall treatment...
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Chaperones for physical exams? Doctors and patients weigh in
How, specifically, should a chaperone perform their duty during an exam? Where should the chaperone stand? What about legal and ethical...
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Routine thromboprophylaxis for advanced ovarian cancer?
“Two-thirds [of VTEs] may have been preventable” because they occurred between epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosis and interval cytoreductive...