PodMed – Week of June 12, 2017

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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
2:39 Advanced melanoma and lymph node dissection
3:35 Half had dissection and survival observed
4:46 What do sentinel nodes really tell us?
5:06 Small aneurysms in the brain
6:06 Less than 3mm zero percent ruptured
7:07 High blood pressure not considered high risk
7:43 The negative impact of alcohol consumption
8:43 Region specific atrophy
10:01 End

Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/06/12/paying-attention-to-cancer-symptoms/