Breast Cancer
From the Journals
Cancer diagnoses, care access rise after Medicaid expansion
In Ohio, researchers found a substantial increase in diagnoses for all three cancers among Medicaid patients after expansion.
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Oncologists challenge ‘burdensome’ MOC requirements
“It’s a pain-in-the-ass module that you sit at home and Google – it’s not really any sort of assessment,” nor does it help protect the public.
Commentary
Who owns your genes?
The assumption of any sane person would be that he or she owns his or her own genes. I mean, how dumb a question is that?
Commentary
The unique approach involved in age-specific concerns surrounding young patients with breast cancer
We need to take care of many things, which can go from their job, family, fertility, and all these things are specific to these women and can...
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Fatalities from breast cancer have ‘improved substantially’
Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are more likely to become long-term survivors of the disease now than they were 20 years ago.
From the Journals
DCIS isn’t an automatic indication for mastectomy in HER2+ BC
In the largest look into the issue to date, investigators find that neoadjuvant therapy clears DCIS about half of the time.
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Survival, QoL trump PFS for most patients with cancer
“The results of our study demonstrate that more than half of patients with advanced cancer would not want a treatment that delays time to...
Commentary
Time to end direct-to-consumer ads, says physician
While these ads urge patients to try expensive “newest and latest” treatments, pharmacy benefits plans are working with health care insurance...
Feature
U.S. mammogram update sparks concern, reignites debates
“These findings suggest that health policy makers and clinicians could consider an alternative, race and ethnicity–adapted approach in which Black...
Feature
New global initiative aims to reform cancer trials and care
“One concern is that over the last 10 years or so, most of our new treatments have had very, very small benefits and we think the bar has dropped...
From the Journals
Interrupting radiotherapy for TNBC linked to worse survival
“All reasonable efforts should be made to prevent any treatment interruptions,” including “prophylactic measures to reduce the severity of...