Oncology
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Liver cancer exacts high financial toll on older adults
In the first year after a hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis median Medicare payments exceed $65,000.
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Cancer researcher banned from federal funding for faking data in nearly 400 images in 16 grant applications
The former basic medical sciences professor will be banned from receiving federal grants for a decade.
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Terminally ill cancer patients struggle to access psilocybin
“I think what we have here is a confluence of events that are driving toward the mandatory opening of a path to access psilocybin for therapeutic...
Original Research
A Novel Text Message Protocol to Improve Bowel Preparation for Outpatient Colonoscopies in Veterans
The current gold standard for screening for colorectal cancer is colonoscopy, a procedure that depends on the quality of bowel preparation. In...
Original Research
Contralateral Constrictor Dose Predicts Swallowing Function After Radiation for Head and Neck Cancer
Background: Radiation therapy can cause long-term dysphagia that seriously affects quality of life for survivors of head...
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Lifestyle choices could curb genetic risk for thyroid cancer
Unhealthy lifestyle factors increased thyroid cancer risk overall, especially in those with a genetic predisposition.
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Melanoma mortality rates fell in 2010s as new therapies took hold
Immunotherapy and targeted therapy appear to be paying dividends, new study finds.
Conference Coverage
Potential cause of worse outcomes among Black breast cancer patients found
Tumor microenvironment of metastasis doorways predicted worse outcomes in Black women with residual ER+/HER2– cancer after neoadjuvant...
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Less than a third of Americans aware of cancer risk from alcohol
Survey also shows low awareness that cancer risk varies by type of drink.
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Pandemic caused treatment delay for half of patients with CTCL, study finds
No clinical trials exist to inform maintenance protocols in patients with cutaneous lymphomas.