Category: Cancer
August 17, 2017 – Moving Forward
August 16, 2017 – Better Survival
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Anchor lead: For women with one type of breast cancer, using two agents improves survival, Elizabeth Tracey reports Women who have breast cancer classified as HER2 positive because of the types of proteins found on the cancer cells may consider …
PodMed – Week of August 14, 2017
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This week’s topics include complications of aortic valve surgery, effectiveness of nasal flu vaccination, testing for Epstein Barr virus and nasopharyngeal cancer, and hepatitis C treatment. Program notes: 0:31 How effective is the flu vaccine? 1:31 Reformulation of nasal type …
August 11, 2017 – Screening or Not?
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Anchor lead: Who should really be screened for a host of common cancers? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’re a woman, should you have screening mammography? If you’re a man, how about screening for prostate cancer? Increasingly, people are told, especially …