Category: Cancer
Long Term Survival
Right to Try
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Anchor lead: Can legislation compel insurers to cover some cancer treatments? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with advanced cancers should be able to try medications and treatments without having to attempt older and less expensive regimens first. That’s the substance of …
Tracking Cancer DNA
CRISPR and Cancer
Genes and Breast Cancer
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Anchor lead: How often are women with breast cancer offered genetic testing? Elizabeth Tracey reports Only about a third of women with breast cancer were offered genetic screening, a recent study found, but such testing is cost effective. William Nelson, …
Ovarian Tx Improvement
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Anchor lead: A combination therapy improves survival for ovarian cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Ovarian cancer survival is improved using a combination treatment developed in a partnership between two pharmaceutical giants, their recent study showed. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel …