Category: Cancer
May 28, 2015 – Family History
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Anchor lead: Family histories don’t rule when it comes to breast cancer prognosis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Do women who’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer need to worry about what’s happened to relatives with the disease? No, a study of several …
May 27, 2015 – Vitamin B and Skin Ca
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Anchor lead: Can a supplement reduce some skin cancer recurrences? Elizabeth Tracey reports Skin cancers are very common, and although only melanoma is usually life-threatening, they can require disfiguring surgery and often recur. Now an Australian study shows that in …
May 18, 2015 – Cancer News Review
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Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Director William Nelson discusses top cancer news during May 2015. Program Notes: 0:34 Sun-related cancer 1:32 500 mg nicotinamide daily 2:30 Standardized genetic tests 3:32 National Institute of Standards and Technology 4:32 Altered DNA sequence in …
May 19, 2015 – Boys and Girls
May 18, 2015 – Vaccine Results
PodMed – Week of May 4, 2015
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This week’s topics include neonatal abstinence syndrome, early HPV vaccination, new vaccine for herpes zoster, and IVC filters for pulmonary embolism. Program notes: 0:36 HPV vaccination 1:36 Reduced risk of dysplasia 2:30 Parents underestimate child’s sexual experience 3:01 New herpes …