Category: Cancer
August 25, 2016 – Insurance and Outcomes
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Anchor lead: Insurance status influences cancer outcomes, Elizabeth Tracey reports Men with testicular cancer and either no insurance or Medicaid fared worse than men with commercial insurance, a recent study concluded. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at …
PodMed – Week of August 15, 2016
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This week’s topics include the impact of exercise on chronic medical conditions, more ICU care and outcomes, m-health and diabetes, and insurance status and cancer outcomes. 0:36 Diabetes and m-health 1:38 Text messaging improved eating behaviors 2:38 Long term impact? …
August 19, 2016 -Alternatives
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Anchor lead: What medication choices exist for women following breast cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ten years of aromatase inhibitors, a class of estrogen depleting medications used in women with the most common type of breast cancer, works better than taking …
August 18, 2016 -Duration of Treatment
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Anchor lead: How long should women take hormone treatments after breast cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Women who’ve had the most common type of breast cancer often take hormone therapy for years to prevent recurrence, but how long should that go …
August 10, 2016 – Avoiding Unnecessary Treatment
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Anchor lead: Can better technology reduce the number of prostate biopsies? Elizabeth Tracey reports More aggressive prostate cancers are diagnosed using MRI guided biopsy than the traditional approach, a Johns Hopkins study led by Ballantine Carter, a prostate cancer expert, …
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August 9, 2016 – Targeted Biopsy
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Anchor lead: MRI is very useful when it comes to prostate biopsies, Elizabeth Tracey reports Using magnetic resonance imaging to direct a prostate biopsy improves results, a recent Johns Hopkins study led by Ballantine Carter, a prostate cancer expert, has …