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Analysis: New Mammography Guidelines Will Cost Lives
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: Yearly screening mammography starting at age 40 saves 71% more lives vs. biennial mammography between ages 50 and 74 years, as...
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New Antidepressant May Cause Less Sexual Dysfunction
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
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Sunitinib Improves Survival in Advanced Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: Sunitinib doubled median progression-free survival for patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors from 5.5 months to...
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Sunitinib Improves Survival in Advanced Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: Sunitinib doubled median progression-free survival for patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors from 5.5 months to...
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ASCO: Discuss Palliative Care, Symptom Relief With Cancer Patients Early
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- Kerri Wachter
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Enhanced CPR May Improve Survival to Discharge
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: Active compression-decompression CPR with enhanced negative intrathoracic pressure during the decompression phase led to a 53%...
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Enhanced CPR May Improve Survival to Discharge
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: Active compression-decompression CPR with enhanced negative intrathoracic pressure during the decompression phase led to a 53%...
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Meta-Analysis Adds to Evidence for Enterovirus/Type 1 Diabetes Association
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: Patients with type 1 diabetes are 10 times more likely to have an enterovirus infection, compared with patients without diabetes....
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FDA Warns of Possible Link Between Breast Implants and Rare Cancer
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
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Video Report: Direct-to-Consumer Genomic Tests
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
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AAD Maintains Vitamin D Recommendation in New Update
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
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AAD Maintains the Importance of Dietary Sources of Vitamin D
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
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Small Occult Metastases in Sentinel Nodes Don't Warrant Investigation
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: The 5-year Kaplan-Meier overall survival (OS) for patients with occult metastases was 95%, disease-free survival (DFS) was 86%, and...
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Exemestane Proves No Better Than Anastrozole for HR-Positive Early Breast Cancer
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: Event-free survival was the same at a median follow-up of 4 years, whether women received adjuvant exemestane or anastrozole (...
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Manual Drainage Fails to Prevent Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Patients
- Author:
- Kerri Wachter
Major Finding: At 12 months, the incidence of lymphedema was 23% in women who received manual lymph drainage with exercise therapy, compared with...