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Anchor lead: More women are choosing reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports More women than ever are choosing to have their breasts reconstructed after having mastectomy for breast cancer, newly released data from the Agency for Healthcare …
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Anchor lead: Do breathtakingly expensive new cancer drugs really help? Elizabeth Tracey reports Too many cancer drugs that costs tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars don’t really help, a scathing study published in the BMJ concludes. William Nelson, …
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This week’s topics include health and wealth, gun show sales and gun injury, management of epilepsy, and outcomes relative to robotic surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Today is last PodMed 1:19 Epilepsy management 2:19 Not a single type of surgery 3:16 …
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This week’s topics include how the Zika virus changed, outcomes after surgery and health literacy, e-cigarettes and healthcare costs, and a reaction to tattooing. Program notes: 0:36 Case report of an outcome after a tattoo 1:32 Reaction to the tattoo …
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Anchor lead: Use of a blood test to screen for an uncommon cancer works well, Elizabeth Tracey reports Screening for a very common virus known as Epstein-Barr has been successful in identifying men with nasopharyngeal cancer, a recent study in …
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Anchor lead: There’s a disturbing rise in colorectal cancer deaths among younger people, Elizabeth Tracey reports Americans under the age of fifty are seeing more deaths from colorectal cancer, a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association …
