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Medicaid cuts could lead to an increase in the number of women diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer

More Breast Cancers Diagnosed at Late Stage With Medicaid Cuts

40.2 percent diagnosed late-stage after Medicaid cuts versus 35.4 percent before cuts
Patients with cancer frequently have herb-drug interactions and drug-drug interactions

Drug, Herb Interactions Frequent for Cancer Patients

Concomitant use of two or more drugs independently linked to high risk of clinically significant DDI
For patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy

Family History Questionnaire Ups Genetic Counseling for CRC

Findings in patients who received family history questionnaire before outpatient colonoscopy
Shared decision-making is being emphasized in new American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists mammography screening guidelines for women at average risk of breast cancer.

ACOG: Shared Decision-Making Key to Breast Cancer Screening

Critically important for patient's value, preferences be factored into process, ACOG leader says
More than half of patients with advanced cancer who undergo tumor genomic profiling are interested in learning their secondary germline findings

Many With Advanced Cancer Want Secondary Germline Findings Info

Attitudes toward learning influenced by patients' personal disease experience, health status
The presence of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential is associated with coronary heart disease

Clonal Hematopoiesis Linked to Coronary Heart Disease

CHIP linked to coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction in humans; atherosclerosis in mice
From 1991 to 2014 there was minimal change in health spending by state

1991-2014 Saw Minimal Change in Health Spending Per State

Recession and recovery, implementation of health reform impacted health care coverage
Many men in the control arm of a screening trial undergo prostate-specific antigen testing during 15 years of follow-up

PSA Testing Frequency High in Control Arm of Screening Trial

Over 15 years of follow-up, considerable proportion of men undergo prostate-specific antigen testing
A community-based interventionist-guided weight-loss program is efficacious for early-stage African-American breast cancer survivors

Weight-Loss Program Aids Black Breast Cancer Survivors

Community-based, interventionist-guided weight loss program efficacious for early-stage survivors
For Caucasian patients with chronic hepatitis B

HCC Drops Beyond Five Years of Entecavir/Tenofovir Tx for Hep B

Older age, lower platelets at baseline and year five, liver stiffness ≥12 kPa linked to HCC development