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Blood test for multiple cancers: Many false positives
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
“This technology is not ready for population-wide screening, but as the technology improves, costs will go down.”
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Alcohol warning labels need updates to reflect harms: NEJM
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
The current warning is“so understated that it borders on being misleading.”
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The ‘great dynamism’ of radiation oncology
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
Highlights from this research reveal how high-tech radiotherapy, such as hypofractionation and stereotactic body radiotherapy, has improved care...
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Many die waiting for `last-chance’ therapy
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
Blood cancer patients, especially those with myeloma, face hospice and death while awaiting CAR T-cell therapy.
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Single dose of HPV vaccine is ‘game changer,’ says WHO
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
“These recommendations will enable more girls and women to be vaccinated and thus preventing them from having cervical cancer and all its...
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Mark Cuban’s discounted pharmacy offers imatinib at a fraction of the cost
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
Medicare “could have saved up to $3.6 billion on 77 of the 89 drugs if it purchased them at the largest quantity sold by Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus...
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Select patients with breast cancer may skip RT after lumpectomy
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
There is “clearly a population of early-stage breast cancer [patients] who after lumpectomy do not benefit from radiation.”
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CMS unveils replacement for the Oncology Care Model
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
“It seems unfair to burden practices with more work but pay less for it.”
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Radiotherapy for brain metastases: ASTRO updates guidelines
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
“Modern management of brain metastases has become increasingly personalized, complex and multidisciplinary.”
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‘Extremely exciting’ study results guide MM treatment options
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
New trial data help inform the tailoring of effective treatment approaches for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM).
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FDA denies petition to disqualify researchers over controversial ketamine studies
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
“The FDA denied our petition, and we think that sends the wrong signal to the research community.”
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Increased social services spending ups cancer survival of Blacks
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
Five-year overall survival increased 2.02% among non-Hispanic Black patients.
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Are docs getting fed up with hearing about burnout?
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
“I am not sure if physicians are tired of hearing about ‘burnout,’ but I do think that they want to hear about solutions that go beyond just...
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Young leukemia survivors still dying early, study shows
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
‘Cure is not enough’ for adolescent and young adult survivors of leukemia, with new data indicating that their life spans are still cut short.
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Improved cancer survival in states with ACA Medicaid expansion
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- Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
The 2-year overall survival increased from 80.6% before the ACA to 82.2% post ACA in expansion states and from 78.7% to 80% in nonexpansion states...