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What will help ease the financial toll of breast cancer?
Programs that offer financial assistance and transportation as well as grants that help cover expenses are among the key strategies that can help...
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HER2+ Combo Shows Promise in Breast Cancer Brain Mets
Brain metastases are common in HER2+ breast cancers, but patients have few treatment options and a poor prognosis.
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Compelling case for skipping RT in some early breast cancers
Results of the PROSPECT study have defined a role for preoperative MRI in identifying a subgroup of women with early breast cancer who could...
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Hematology is in the Brodsky family’s blood
Three generations of Brodsky men have forged careers in the same medical field.
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ASH 2023: Equity, Sickle Cell, and Real-Life Outcomes
Leaders of the American Society of Hematology preview hot topics and presentations on tap at their 2023 annual meeting.
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Fewer than 1 out of 4 patients with HCV-related liver cancer receive antivirals
This study and others suggest that these practice-altering agents are underutilized. Greater awareness of direct-acting antiviral agents is needed...
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More than one-third of adults in the US could have NAFLD by 2050
Findings suggest that health care systems should prepare for “large increases” in cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and need for liver...
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FDA’s Project Optimus aims to transform early cancer research
Q & A with an expert on how the FDA’s Project Optimus targets toxicity and how it could spell the end of traditional dose-escalation trials....
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In MI with anemia, results may favor liberal transfusion: MINT
This study is “not a home run,” for the primary outcome, however, many of the outcomes tended to be in favor of a liberal transfusion strategy.
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Particulate pollution increases the risk for breast cancer
“There is now strong epidemiological and biological evidence for the link between PM2.5 particulate exposure and cancer ...”
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T-cell cancers: CAR T therapy to the rescue?
Trials are small and incomplete, but CAR T-cell therapy has yielded promising early results in treating T-cell blood cancers.