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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 …
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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 …
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This week’s topics include genetics and asthma, obesity and diabetes among identical twins, a Zika update, and remote monitoring of patients. Program notes: 0:30 Zika and contraception use 1:34 In places with Zika risk are women using contraception 2:28 Some …
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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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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 …
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This week’s topics include the cost of physical inactivity, the mortality impact of sedentary behavior, behavioral activation for depression, and skin inspections for skin cancer. Program notes: 0:32 Mortality and physical inactivity 1:33 If you sit for 8 hours increased …
