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Master Doctor Search: Hematology Oncology
End-of-life care often intense among hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
Emily E. Johnston Patients who died within 1 year of undergoing inpatient allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation often received medically intense end-of-life care...
9 hours ago - Healio
Air Pollution Increases Lung Cancer Risk in Nonsmokers
Women who have never smoked, especially Asian women, are highly susceptible to develop lung cancer if exposed to high levels of air pollution. Medscape Medical News
13 hours ago - Medscape - 2 articles
Duvelisib Approved for Certain Lymphomas
The FDA approved the new drug for use in relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia, small lymphocytic lymphoma, and follicular lymphoma. FDA Approvals
15 hours ago - Medscape
How to Increase Access Cancer Drugs Discussed at NCCN Meeting
A National Comprehensive Cancer Network working group listened to ideas on how restricting drugs could increase access, and how hospital consolidation increases costs. Medscape...
15 hours ago - Medscape - 2 articles
Training, retaining APPs ‘of paramount importance' to oncology workforce
Editor's note: HemOnc Today's regular columns for advanced practice providers tackle common issues APPs face, discuss day-to-day practice and regulatory concerns, and share...
17 hours ago - Healio
A Privacy Work-Around for Hereditary Cancer Testing
When a patient has an inherited cancer-associated gene, it is desirable, but not easy, to have other family members tested. Using a commercial lab to circumvent nettlesome...
18 hours ago - Medscape
Special Focus Issue takes wide view of complementary and integrative medicine in cancer
A Special Focus Issue on Integrative Oncology takes a wide-ranging view of the possible approaches and potential therapeutic benefits of complementary and integrative medicine...
22 hours ago - News Medical
Study: Women with non-small cell lung cancers live longer than their male counterparts
Women diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancers live longer than their male counterparts, according to results of a SWOG study presented today by Kathy Albain, MD, the...
22 hours ago - News Medical - 2 articles
New Strategy Almost Halves Opioid Use in Surgical Cancer Patients
A two-prong approach was able to reduce opioid use by 46% in post-op surgical patients without increasing pain or anxiety. Medscape Medical News
1 day ago - Medscape - 3 articles
Financial Toxicity Prevalent in Older Cancer Patients
About one in five older patients with advanced cancer report financial difficulties, which in turn, take a toll on their mental well-being Medscape Medical News
1 day ago - Medscape - 3 articles
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