Healthline Blogs
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How Do You Prefer Orientation/Education about Cancer?
The following is a review written by a nurse, Valerie R. Vestal, MSN, FNP, RN, at our institution on a study related to orientation for individuals with cancer and their primary support person.Because of the unfamiliar surroundings and unpredictab...
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Who Are the Team Members Who Help Treat Cancer?
Multidisciplinary Approach To Treating CancerIn order to give you the best possible cancer care you will be cared for by a team of healthcare professionals. This team is called a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approach to treating cancer. ...
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Targeted Therapies for Colorectal Cancer
Because chemotherapy drugs must be given systemically and can thus harm healthy as well as cancer cells, they tend to cause a wide variety of side effects and are not very specific. More recently, researchers have developed targeted therapies or b...
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Participation in Grand Rounds
Emily Devoto hosts Grand Rounds this week. She offered some of the best writing in the medical bloggosphere for all of us to read. She also highlighted my writing on the topic of cancer and spirituality.Tags: Healthline, health, medical, doctor, g...
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What is the Difference Between Alternative and Complementary Medicine?
Although some health care professionals and many lay people use the terms alternative and complementary therapies interchangeably, they are very different. Alternative therapies are unconventional unproven therapies that reject conventional medici...
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Enhancing Breast Cancer Screening
The following is a review written by a nurse, Valerie R. Vestal, MSN, FNP, RN, at our institution on a study related to breast cancer screening.Breast Cancer is the most wide spread cancer affecting women and the second leading cause of cancer dea...
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The Best of the Medical Blogosphere
Regular readers of blogs know that it is common for bloggers to read and link to other bloggers, especially if they are talking abut a similar topic. Each week a member of the medical blogosphere hosts "Grand Rounds." This is a good way to find bl...
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What Is A Clinical Trial?
Clinical trials are studies designed to test new therapies on humans. All different types of treatment are studied by this method (e.g. radiation therapy, chemotherapy, biological agents, medical devices and more).Research initially starts in a la...
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Are Women With Breast Cancer Seeing The Most Experienced Surgeons?
Up for a quiz? Great. Assume that you or your spouse were newly diagnosed with breast cancer and needed to see a breast cancer surgeon. How would go about finding a breast cancer surgeon to help treat your cancer? Remember, your treatment outcome ...
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More Compelling Evidence That Patient Outcomes Are Better At Specialized High Volume Cancer Hospitals – Lung Cancer, A Case In Point
Preliminary findings from a study presented at last week’s meeting International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer in Seoul, Korea demonstrates why it so important for cancer patients or their spouses to carefully choose the right physician...
