Oncology & Cancer
Insurance isn't enough for women at high risk of breast cancer
Women at high risk of breast cancer face cost-associated barriers to care even when they have health insurance, a new study has found.
Apr 21, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
UK cancer patients more likely to die following COVID-19 than European cancer patients
Cancer patients from the UK were 1.5 times more likely to die following a diagnosis with COVID-19 than cancer patients from European countries.
Apr 13, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
New study looks at long-term outcomes and costs of NMIBC
A new research study leveraging a database from the largest equal access health system in the US, the Department of Veteran Affairs, offers insight into the outcome of specific treatment patterns for advanced bladder cancer ...
Apr 1, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Education, interest in alternative medicine associated with believing misinformation
While many people believe misinformation on Facebook and Twitter from time to time, people with lower education or health literacy levels, a tendency to use alternative medicine or a distrust of the health care system are ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Surgery
Artificial Intelligence used to enhance decision making during colorectal cancer surgery for first time
A clinical research study published in the British Journal of Surgery shows that fluorescence guidance (where a fluorescent chemical compound re-emits light with a long wavelength) can enable a colorectal surgeon to assess ...
Dec 17, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Genomic signature explains FDG-avidity of PSMA-suppressed prostate tumors
Scientists have uncovered the genomic signature to explain why 18F-FDG imaging performs better than PSMA-targeted imaging for prostate cancer patients with low or no expression of the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA). ...
Jul 23, 2020
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Medications
Johnson & Johnson told to pay $2.1 billion over cancer-causing talc powder
A US court has upheld a verdict that talcum powder sold by Johnson & Johnson caused ovarian cancer and ordered the pharmaceutical giant to pay $2.1 billion in damages.
Jun 24, 2020
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Medications
First known case of a deadly heart rhythm disturbance from chloroquine therapy for COVID-19 reported
A patient who met many of the published safety guidelines for chloroquine therapy against COVID-19 was observed to have a very abnormal ECG pattern after treatment began, leading to multiple episodes of torsade de pointes ...
Jun 18, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Variation in how side effects are reported leaves first impressions of new anti-cancer drugs open to manipulation
An important goal of early-phase clinical trials is to discover a drug's possible side effects. But despite FDA guidelines seeking to standardize this reporting, a University of Colorado Cancer Center study finds significant ...
Apr 28, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Drug overcomes chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer
An international research team, led by scientists from Mater Research—The University of Queensland, have discovered they can overcome chemotherapy resistance in an ovarian cancer subtype by using low doses of a drug which ...
Apr 16, 2020
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