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    Cervical Cancer Screening: US Clinicians Unclear About Best Practices

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: May 6, 2024

    ACS guidelines mark a notable departure from prevailing practice.

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    Time to stop routine maintenance therapy in myeloma?

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: November 30, 2023

    Research now suggests some multiple myeloma patients may not need indefinite, costly maintenance therapy after stem cell transplantation.

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    Have early-onset cancer cases soared? Not so fast, experts say

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: September 25, 2023

    “Epidemic news, but no epidemic of cancer.”

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    New trials in prostate cancer: Could your patient benefit?

    Author:
    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: August 25, 2023

    Several new trials have opened in recent months.

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    Cancer clinical trials: Can industry stack the deck?

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: March 10, 2023

    Experts: New research into age disparities in cancer drug trials finds participants “markedly younger” than intended patient populations.

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    Mastocytosis: Rare, underdiagnosed, potentially fatal

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: January 24, 2023

    This often-missed myeloid neoplasm could be deadly and deserves greater attention, experts say.

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    Cervical cancer in women 65+ often deadly: so why not screen?

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: January 19, 2023

    Older patients, even those with early disease, had much poorer survival after they were diagnosed with cervical cancer than their younger...

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    Teclistamab for MM: Lifesaver or 'cause of death'?

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: November 15, 2022

    In the wake of the FDA’s accelerated approval of teclistamab, myeloma specialists interpret the pros and cons.

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    Noted oncologist ponders death, life, care inequities

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: September 22, 2022

    A photojournalist-turned-physician practiced in India and the United Kingdom before rising to prominence in U.S. community oncology.

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    When CPI fails, HL patients should get timely allo-HCT

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: April 15, 2022

    New data suggest that physicians should refer Hodgkin lymphoma patients for allogeneic HCT without delay when PD-1 treatments fail.

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    Survivor’s story foreshadows one of oncology’s greatest successes

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: April 14, 2022

    In 1992, a young New Yorker was among the first Hodgkin lymphoma patients to undergo a successful bone marrow transplant. Three decades later,...

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    100 coauthored papers, 10 years: Cancer transplant pioneers model 'team science'

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    Helen Leask, PhD
    Publish date: January 21, 2022

    MSKCC medical oncologists share expertise in HSCT, Spanish background, a gift for mentoring, and 100 peer-reviewed publications written together...

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