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Faster Brain Atrophy Linked to MCI
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- Jennie Smith
High levels of atrophy in the white matter and high enlargement in the ventricles are associated with earlier progression from normal cognition to...
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What Are the Best Tools for Early Childhood Developmental Concerns?
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- Jennie Smith
This scoping review assessed the diagnostic instruments used to diagnose the most common early childhood...
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Untangling CIDP
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- Jennie Smith
Though a preferred biomarker remains elusive, this difficult to diagnose neuropathy has seen important recent advances in diagnosis and treatment...
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New ADC results mixed in metastatic breast cancer
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- Jennie Smith
While T-DXd showed promise for yet another indication at ASCO, other findings underscored that much still remains to be learned about this drug...
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Should ctDNA guide clinical decisions in GI cancers?
- Author:
- Jennie Smith
Data are maturing for colon cancer and emerging for pancreatic cancer, but experts say more work needs to be done.
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Ovarian Cancer Risk Doubled by Estrogen-Only HRT
- Author:
- Jennie Smith
Long-term follow up in women with hysterectomy included in the WHI reveals significantly more cases of ovarian cancer.
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T-DXd Moves Toward First Line for HER2-Low Metastatic BC
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- Jennie Smith
New results from DESTINY trials support use of the antibody-drug conjugate earlier in the treatment algorithm for cancers expressing even the...
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Should ER-Low Breast Cancer Patients Be Offered Endocrine Therapy?
- Author:
- Jennie Smith
New evidence suggests that omitting endocrine therapy increases the risk of death in this patient group.
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Most women can conceive after breast cancer treatment
- Author:
- Jennie Smith
In a modern cohort of patients under 40 without metastatic disease, financial status and egg or embryo freezing — but not chemotherapy — affected...
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Chatbots Seem More Empathetic Than Docs in Cancer Discussions
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- Jennie Smith
AI gives readable, high quality, and empathetic responses to social media queries about cancer.
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Autoimmunity’s Female Bias and the Mysteries of Xist
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- Jennie Smith
Researchers are homing in on a long non-coding RNA, essential to X chromosome inactivation, as the culprit in sex-biased autoimmune diseases like...
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Democratic Lawmakers Press Pfizer on Chemotherapy Drug Shortages
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- Jennie Smith
The company, which said in May that it was working to assuage critical shortages of methotrexate, carboplatin and cisplatin, is being asked to...
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Circulating Tumor Cells Can Predict Progression in Stage 3 NSCLC
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- Jennie Smith
New research may bring doctors closer to using CTCs as a biomarker for patients with non-small cell lung cancer in clinic.
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Functional Outcomes in Localized Prostate Cancer: Treatment Choice, Time, Prognosis All Matter
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- Jennie Smith
New study sheds light on quality of life effects related to disease severity and treatment choice.
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AI-guided colonoscopy results in more small adenomas detected
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- Jennie Smith
Use of the technology increased detection rates, but overtreatment was common, and detection of larger advanced neoplasias was little affected,...