Category: Cancer
December 17, 2015 – PSA Screening
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Anchor lead: Fewer men are being screened for prostate cancer using PSA testing, Elizabeth Tracey reports In the wake of the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendations a few years ago, fewer men are having PSA screening for prostate …
PodMed – Week of December 14, 2015
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Hormone deprivation therapy and dementia, happiness and health, a sickle cell drug, and too much HbA1c testing. Program notes: 0:38 Happiness and mortality 1:32 17% unhappy 2:35 Advocate for Eyore-like behavior? 3:01 Too much HbA1c measurement 4:02 Why is too …
PodMed – Week of November 30, 2015
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This week’s topics include early testing for amyloid, improving colorectal cancer screening, generic medications, and folic acid supplementation and neural tube defects. Program notes: 0:34 Folic acid supplements and neural tube defects 1:38 Significant drop with fortification 2:36 Maybe found …
November 27, 2015 – Avoiding Surgery
November 26, 2015 – Brain Tumor Monitoring
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Anchor lead: Can new techniques allow better monitoring of brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports Transcript Elizabeth Tracey: All cells shed DNA into blood and bodily fluids when they break open, a fact that's being exploited in discerning whether cancers have …
PodMed – Week of November 23, 2015
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This week’s topics include health impact of coffee, measuring body temperature, germ line mutations and cancer in kids, and a treatment for respiratory syncytial virus. Program notes: 0:35 Coffee and health 1:31 Decrease in cardiovascular mortality 2:36 Way to measure …