Patients in Australia and Vietnam differ in their perceptions of what caused their cancer, with Australian patients more frequently reporting age and Vietnamese patients more frequently reporting poor diet as causes.
Insomnia Severity Index scores improved for many cancer survivors with even a single sleep education session.
Because unmarried patients are less likely to choose surgery or radiotherapy treatments over other interventions, researchers often speculate that those patients have less “fighting spirit” or that having a life partner would give them “more to live for.”
Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) reduced the uninsured rate, patients continue to report pressing financial strain caused by unpaid medical bills (copays, out-of-pocket drug costs, high deductibles) and medical travel costs.
Oncologists have expressed concern that health promotion could distress or overwhelm cancer survivors.
The FDA has approved Zirabev (bevacizumab-bvzr; Pfizer), a biosimilar to Avastin (bevacizumab; Genentech).
Cancer death rates declined for adults aged 45 to 64 years from 1999 to 2017, while heart disease death rates decreased to 2011 and then increased.
The AGA present an updated summary of best practice advice for surveillance of hepatocellular cancer and DAA therapy timing.
Edwin Hardeman alleged that exposure to the weedkiller Roundup led to his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Although rates of AIDS-defining malignancies have declined in recent decades, cancer remains a leading cause of mortality in people living with HIV.
