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Many women get breast cancer. But the disease is deadliest for non-Hispanic Black women. And when it comes to metastatic breast cancer, women of color are less likely to get timely treatment that follows national guidelines. According to Grace Suh, MD, medical director at Northwestern Medicine Cancer Center Delnor, lack of access to health education and

With the Veris Cancer Care Platform, cancer care teams at the New Jersey Cancer Care, PA can now review patients' physiologic and clinical data in real time and deliver personalized care. WHY IT MATTERS Today, NJCC and Veris Health, a subsidiary of New York-based PAVmed Digital Health, announced that the cloud-based clinician portal was successfully

News in Brief Published: 15 February 2023 Nature Biotechnology volume 41, page 162 (2023)Cite this article 1521 Accesses 4 Altmetric Metrics details The UK government will partner with BioNTech to fast-track up to 10,000 patients into clinical trials of mRNA immunotherapies to treat cancer. The alliance builds on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which vaccine

Tumors are rife with bacteria and fungi. Their ubiquity is proving useful in detecting cancers, categorizing them, and even determining whether certain interventions will work. Credit: bacterial background, Sergiy Zhukovskyy / Alamy Stock Photo; tumor, Iliescu Catalin / Alamy Stock PhotoLast July the first predictive clinical test based on the gut microbiome was approved in

HCA Healthcare has 14 hospitals covering a radius of more than 300 miles. The staff members knew they had a large catchment area. However, caseloads were based on registry data that was delayed, and not a true reflection of the provider organization's oncology program as a whole. THE PROBLEM "With multiple points of entry, we relied

Oncology/Hematology > Other Cancers — News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues by Mike Bassett, Staff Writer, MedPage Today January 20, 2023 Last Updated January 21, 2023 The CDC added uterine cancer to the list of covered World Trade Center-related conditions; women enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program will have access to cancer

Menu Spotlight On: Inoperable Lung Cancer By Foster Lasley, MD, as told to Kara Mayer Robinson  If your lung cancer can’t be treated with surgery, it doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do. You may still have treatment options like radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Nonsurgical treatments can lead to good outcomes and they’re commonly used around