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- Pam Harrison
Publish date: November 22, 2021
Previous studies comparing survival in younger versus older patients with metastatic colorectal cancer have yielded conflicting results.
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- Pam Harrison
Publish date: November 17, 2021
“If you look back, the 5-year survival rate has been very slowly eking up at about 1% over the years.”
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- Pam Harrison
Publish date: November 12, 2021
“The cancer mortality rate has reduced considerably since 1971 overall and for most cancer sites because of improvements in prevention, early detec...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: November 10, 2021
The risk of occult gastric cancer is highly prevalent in HLBC families with any type of CDH1 variant irrespective of a family history of gastric ca...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: November 10, 2021
Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy led to superior patient outcomes and less toxicity than standard of care transarterial chemoembolization in ...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: November 8, 2021
The risk of prostate cancer was higher in men with certain pathogenic variants in mismatch repair genes that characterize the Lynch syndrome, compa...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: November 8, 2021
Tantalizing clues about WM and related B-cell cancers have emerged.
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: November 4, 2021
Among young women who received the HPV vaccine when they were 12-13 years old, cervical cancer rates are 87% lower than among previous nonvaccinate...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: October 28, 2021
Long-term use of hydrochlorothiazide was associated with a twofold increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma, compared with calcium channel blocker...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: October 13, 2021
“It’s so important to be able to detect infection even when a person doesn’t feel symptomatic, as this would help...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: October 12, 2021
“There is a need for physicians to modify management strategies ... and to devote more research efforts to improving nonantibiotic options for the ...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: October 5, 2021
For women with extremely dense breasts, screening with MRI alone every 4 years is cost effective and delivers the greatest benefit, the first study...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: September 22, 2021
Although most children and adolescents with cancer have mild illness from COVID-19 infection, some do experience ...
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: September 20, 2021
Patients should not receive immunotherapy just to reduce risk of side effects, doctor says.
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- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Publish date: August 19, 2021
Minor diabetes-related lower extremity amputations increased at the expense of major amputations in some groups to 2017, but COVID-19 has likely de...
