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Thermography plus software shows efficacy for breast cancer screening
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- Pam Harrison
Thermography aided by diagnostic software may provide an alternative to mammography in resource-poor countries...
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Deaths sky high in hospitalized COVID patients with kidney injury
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- Pam Harrison
“We may be facing an epidemic of post–COVID-19 kidney disease and that, in turn, could mean much greater numbers of patients who require kidney...
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First guideline on NGS testing in cancer, from ESMO
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- Pam Harrison
ESMO recommends tumor next-generation sequencing for non–small cell lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer...
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Immunotherapy should not be withheld because of sex, age, or PS
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- Pam Harrison
Immune checkpoint inhibitors confer a similar survival advantage regardless of cancer type, line of therapy, sex...
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Black/White gap gone: ‘The only cancer where this has happened’
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- Pam Harrison
Lung cancer rates are similar among Black and White patients, a new study suggests.
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NSCLC success story: Mortality down, survival improved
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- Pam Harrison
In recent years, mortality rates have fallen and survival has improved for patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
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HPV test is preferred method for cervical cancer screening: ACS
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- Pam Harrison
New guidelines recommend human papillomavirus (HPV) testing as the preferred screening method, but cotesting and...
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Cancer patient organizations critically affected by pandemic
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- Pam Harrison
COVID-19 has broken the chain of cancer care around the world, affecting all cancer patient organizations and...
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Dairy doesn’t do a body good in midlife women
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- Pam Harrison
Daily dairy intake does not bolster bone mineral density at the femoral neck or lumbar spine, nor does it reduce osteoporotic fracture risk in...
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Clinicians still unaware of need for genetic testing in NSCLC
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- Pam Harrison
Most clinicians surveyed estimated that fewer than 50% of non–small cell lung cancer patients in their country undergo molecular testing.
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Single negative colonoscopy predicts low colorectal cancer risk
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- Pam Harrison
A population-based study showed a durable reduction in colorectal cancer risk among patients with a negative result from a “high-quality”...
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World first: Saliva test detects occult HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer
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- Pam Harrison
A saliva test detected HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer in an asymptomatic adult.
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Androgens may explain male vulnerability to COVID-19
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- Pam Harrison
Androgen deprivation therapy may be protective against COVID-19, a study suggests.
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Excess cancer deaths predicted as care is disrupted by COVID-19
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- Pam Harrison
Researchers are predicting that, 1 year from now, there will be 33,890 excess deaths among cancer patients in...
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Increased risk of lung cancer with COPD, even in never smokers
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- Pam Harrison
The highest risk of lung cancer was in patients who had COPD.