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Doctors debunked five women’s health myths on mammograms, menopause, exercise, and more. (NPR)
The FDA rejected tasimelteon (Hetlioz) as a treatment for jet lag…
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Spondyloarthritis: Spinal MRI May Improve Management
(MedPage Today) — Some 20% of people with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) included in a prospective cohort study showed no lesions in their sacroiliac joints, only in the spine, researchers reported — an indication that advanced imaging that…
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Trump's True Scan Story; School Vax Rates Dropping; Deadly Fungus Spreading
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President Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal that his recent imaging was a CT scan, not an MRI as originally thought, and that there is “nothing wrong” with… -
Sniffing Out the Optimal Radiation Dose for Head and Neck Cancer
(MedPage Today) — Sense of smell in patients with head and neck cancer began to deteriorate at a radiation dose of 22 Gy and increased in a dose-related fashion, a small prospective study showed.
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Proton Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer Makes a Case for Standard of Care
(MedPage Today) — Proton radiotherapy (RT) for oropharyngeal cancer matched conventional photon therapy for slowing disease progression and led to better overall survival (OS) with less toxicity, a prospective randomized trial showed.
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Lung Cancer Screening Follow-Up Often Inadequate
(MedPage Today) — After finding abnormalities on low-dose CT lung cancer screening, many patients don’t get the recommended level of follow-up care, a Medicare-linked registry analysis showed.
Only 59.7% of such patients received guideline-concordant… -
Woman’s Ice-Skating Fall Produces Striking X-Ray, Rare Forearm Break
(MedPage Today) — The weather outside might be frightful — but so is a radiograph of the arm one woman broke while ice skating.
The 26-year-old arrived at the emergency department at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in Taipei City, Taiwan, with… -
Preop RT May Boost Response to Chemo-Immunotherapy in High-Risk Early Breast Cancer
(MedPage Today) — SAN ANTONIO — Preoperative radiotherapy (RT) plus PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) significantly increased immune activation and tumor response in node-positive hormone receptor-positive (HR+)/HER2-negative breast cancer…
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Study Makes the Case for Replacing Annual Breast Cancer Screening
(MedPage Today) — SAN ANTONIO — Risk-based breast cancer screening proved noninferior for detecting clinically significant tumors in a randomized trial, though outside experts raised concerns and a major medical group said the findings do not…
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Pre-Op MRI Shows 'No Clinical Benefit' in Early Breast Cancer
(MedPage Today) — SAN ANTONIO — Preoperative MRI for staging patients with early, hormone receptor (HR)-negative breast cancer didn’t result in improved oncologic outcomes or improved clinical care, according to a phase III study presented…