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Anchor lead: Are you familiar with risk factors for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports While some risk factors for cancer are known by many people, some common ones are less well-known, a recent Gallup survey for the American Society of Clinical …
In this month's podcast, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Director William Nelson discusses breast cancer awareness, breast cancer guidelines and screening controversy, and an overview look at new approaches to breast cancer treatments. Program Notes: 0:35 Breast cancer awareness 1:32 Controversy regarding …
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Anchor lead: Women who are considering breast reconstruction need support, Elizabeth Tracey reports More and more women are choosing breast reconstruction following mastectomy, data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality find. Gedge Rosson, a breast reconstruction expert at …
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Anchor lead: There are good reasons to consider reconstruction after mastectomy, Elizabeth Tracey reports Women who have breast reconstruction after a mastectomy report improved quality of life, many studies have found. Women must be getting that message as more of …
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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 …
