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Videotaped encounter evaluates medical students conveying bad news to 'standardized patients'
news-medical.net — “Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine evaluated the experience of medical students who participated in videotaped sessions where they practiced conveying difficult news to "standardized patients" (SPs). The SPs role-played patients with a variety of cancers and who were receiving bad medical news.” View full resource at news-medical.net
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Steve Lopez: With death waiting, a cancer-ravaged patient learns to savor the time left - latimes.com
latimes.com — “Cancer patient Freddie Ramos, offered palliative care in a hospice, chose to go home where he savors the time that he has left, knowing that it isn't long.” View full resource at latimes.com
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Join Our Online Communities | Roswell Park Cancer Institute
roswellpark.org — “CancerConnect: For everyone whose life has been touched by cancer–you do not need to be a Roswell Park patient to join us. It is a place where you can safely voice your ideas, thoughts, and concerns; benefit from the experience of others facing the same disease; and most importantly, realize you don’t have to feel alone.” View full resource at roswellpark.org
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AICR recommends intake of cancer-fighting foods
news-medical.net — “Colleen Spees has always been interested in the role that diet played in disease, and set her sights on a career where she would counsel patients and train future dietitians. With multiple family members diagnosed with various types of cancer, Colleen decided to make the transition from clinical professional and nutrition educator to research scientist.” View full resource at news-medical.net
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Thyroid Cancer Treatment Varies by Hospital
newswise.com — “Where thyroid cancer patients go for care plays a large role in whether they receive radioactive iodine treatment, a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Pharmacies balk at giving donated drugs to patients - News - ReviewJournal.com
lvrj.com — “Two years after Nevada passed a law allowing unused cancer drugs to be passed along, the expensive drugs still must be thrown away.” View full resource at lvrj.com
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Zumba fundraiser to benefit cancer patient - phillyBurbs.com : Breaking News: zumba, la belle fit spa, jaime rossano,
phillyburbs.com — “?CHERRY HILL — Maple Shade native Jaime Rossano spends a few hours a week in an exercise studio, where the Latin-inspired dance-fitness class Zumba provides a brief respite from dealing with cancer.” View full resource at phillyburbs.com
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Washington University Doctors Find Underlying Cause of Ovarian Cancer - Digg
digg.com — “It's old news that cancer is caused by mutations in otherwise healthy cells. But where are those mutations? That's what the researchers at Washington University's Genome Institute have been trying to figure out. Earlier this year, a team sequenced DNA from breast cancer patients. This month another team has done the same for ovarian cancer.” View full resource at digg.com
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'Sunshine vitamin' pills may extend lives of cancer patients - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent
independent.co.uk — “A vitamin pill available for a few pence in any local chemist's shop may have a bigger impact in extending the survival of cancer patients than drugs costing tens of thousands of pounds, says a leading cancer specialist. Professor Angus Dalgeish, consultant medical oncologist at St George's Hospital, Tooting, south-west London, will tell a conference next week that he tests all his cancer patients for the level of Vitamin D and prescribes supplements where they are low.” View full resource at independent.co.uk
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Senate: Medicaid patients required to use generics - WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina |
wistv.com — “South Carolina Medicaid patients with AIDS, cancer or mental illness will have to use generic drugs, where available, under a budget measure the Senate agreed to Tuesday.” View full resource at wistv.com
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Look Good, Feel Better Program Helps Cancer Patients - WAAYTV.com- Huntsville, Alabama Television - News Weather Sports
waaytv.com — “The American Cancer Society is helping patients look their best in a time where most aren't feeling their best.” View full resource at waaytv.com
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MedWire News - Oncology - Decision for location of end-of-life care lies with patient, family wishes
medwire-news.md — “MedWire News A few simple patient- and family-centered questions could help care-givers decide where the best place is for end-of-life care and death of patients with advanced cancer, report researchers. MedWire News” View full resource at medwire-news.md
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New phase III trial results: Erlotinib effective to chemotherapy with good tolerability against lung cancer
news-medical.net — “The targeted cancer drug erlotinib has comparable efficacy to chemotherapy, and is better tolerated, in hard-to-treat cases where a patient's cancer has progressed quickly after treatment with first-line therapy, the results of a new phase III trial show.” View full resource at news-medical.net
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Scientists Discover Genes That Affect Colorectal Cancer Drug
endonurse.com — “Genomic research could help doctors better target a drug widely used to treat colorectal cancer patients, according to a study by Genomic Health Inc. and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). The drug, oxaliplatin, is widely used in colon cancer. It is used in early disease, following surgery in those cancers that are likely to recur. It is also used in advanced disease to slow progression of the cancer where it has spread to other parts of the body.” View full resource at endonurse.com
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Physician Recommends End-Of-Life Conversations with Patients - ABC News
abcnews.go.com — “It's one of the most difficult conversations a doctor can have with a patient -- deciding how and where the terminally ill should best spend their final days. "Physicians for a long time have believed these conversations would harm patients and they are difficult and upsetting," Dr. Alexi Wright, an oncologist at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute said. "Without any evidence that they improved care, I don't think there was a real push to have these conversations."” View full resource at abcnews.go.com
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