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Educating women about the possibility of overdiagnosis from mammography screening may make some of them less likely to get the test

Better Informed Women Less Likely to Want Mammogram

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Risks and benefits of routine mammography continue to be debated
Apology laws

Article Emphasizes Importance of Apology in Medical Error

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Apology laws unnecessary if physicians understand the importance of offering accountability
Clinical interventions should be implemented to help cancer survivors make lifestyle behavior changes

Cancer Survivors Need Healthful Lifestyle Advice

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Oncology care teams should provide guidance on lifestyle change as part of survivorship care
Many American women with locally-advanced breast cancer do not receive recommended radiation therapy after mastectomy

Many Women Not Receiving Recommended Radiation Tx

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More than a third with locally-advanced disease don't get treatment aimed at preventing tumor's return
Scientists have issued a comprehensive map of human epigenomes -- the range of chemical and structural shifts that determine how genes govern health. The group published the new map online Feb. 18 in Nature

‘Most Comprehensive Map’ of Human Epigenomes Presented

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Result of years of work by an international consortium of researchers
For sorafenib-treated patients with hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma

Antiviral Tx Improves Survival in Sorafenib-Treated HBV-HCC

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Antiviral therapy with nucleoside analogues linked to improved overall survival
For patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Wide Variation in Hospital Tx Patterns for Metastatic CRC

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Use of metastatic site surgery, multiagent chemo increases as hospitals' volume of services increases
Observation is increasingly being used among men with low-risk prostate cancer who are young and healthy enough for treatment

Observation Increasingly Used in Younger Men With Prostate CA

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From 2004 to 2009, marked increase in observation among men with low-risk disease
A novel oral substrate reduction therapy

Eliglustat Safely Reverses Manifestations of Gaucher’s

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Significant improvement in spleen volume for untreated adults with type 1 disease
For postmenopausal women

Lycopene Inversely Linked to Renal Cell Carcinoma Risk

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Findings from 96,196 postmenopausal women enrolled in Women's Health Initiative