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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 …
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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 …
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Anchor lead: Senator John McCain’s brain tumor will likely require more than surgery to treat, Elizabeth Tracey reports Brain tumors have come into focus with Senator John McCain’s diagnosis. Matthias Holdhoff, a brain cancer expert at Johns Hopkins, describes what’s …
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This week’s topics include patient monitoring of cancer symptoms and survival, negative impact of alcohol consumption, lymph node dissection in melanoma, and significance of small aneurysms in brain. 0:32 Patient monitoring of cancer symptoms and survival 1:34 Reported to nurse …
