Tag: cancer

Strange Coincidence: When Cancer Strikes Hospital CEO

I am just back from the Phoenix-metro area. It’s now the 5th…

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A High Price for Rare Cancer Drugs

Pfizer last week won Food and Drug Administration “accelerated approval” for Xalkori…

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“Hot Chemotherapy” Gaining Steam

You heard about it first on Patient Power when, a couple of…

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Another Pan Mass Challenge Enters the History Books

For those of you just joining us, I rode in my eighth…

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Not One War on Cancer, Millions

You have heard it countless times, “The War on Cancer.” President Nixon…

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Is Breath Analysis the Future of Medical Testing?

Scientists are building sophisticated electronic and chemical sniffers that examine the puffs…

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Less Education, More Cancer

A new study from the American Cancer Society shows that people with…

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Mobile Phone-Brain Cancer Link Bewilders Epidemiologists

Some of the greatest discoveries in the history of modern medicine came…

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Quote of the Day

If cellphones caused brain tumors, we should have seen a worldwide increase…

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Improving Cancer Patient Care While Markedly Reducing Costs

It is often difficult to appreciate that improving the care of patients…

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