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Drug copayments frequently exceed prescription drug costs

Drug Copayments Often Exceed Prescription Drug Costs

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Overpayments affect 23 percent of all prescriptions; more common with generic drugs
Many women with early-stage breast cancer with indications for formal genetic risk evaluation do not receive formal counseling

Too Few Early Breast CA Patients Given Formal Genetic Counseling

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43.5% of women with early-stage breast cancer with indications for risk evaluation get counseling
Use of the I quit original smoking heat-not-burn system chars the tobacco plug

Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco System Releases Toxic Chemical

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Charring of tobacco plug and release of formaldehyde cyanohydrin identified as health concerns
Higher plasma concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D is associated with reduced risk of total cancer in a Japanese population

Vit D Concentration Associated With Reduced Risk of Cancer

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Inverse correlation for plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration with total cancer, liver cancer
Mobile Patient Technology for Health-Colorectal Cancer

Digital Intervention Can Increase Colorectal Cancer Screenings

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Fifty-three percent of intervention participants used app to self-order a screening test
Spending on health care is much higher in the United States than other high-income countries

U.S. Spends Twice As Much for Similar Health Care Utilization

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U.S. has higher administrative and pharmaceutical costs than 10 other high-income countries
For women with human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2-negative breast cancer receiving anthracycline chemotherapy

ACC: Carvedilol Doesn’t Prevent Anthracycline Cardiotoxicity

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Carvedilol does not prevent reduction in LVEF in breast cancer but is linked to lower troponin I levels
The median age of diagnosis of female breast cancer is higher for white patients than for black

Racial Variation in Median Age of Female Breast Cancer Diagnosis

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More black, Hispanic, Asian patients diagnosed at younger than 50 years than white patients
One practice's three-pronged approach successfully improved physician engagement

Three-Pronged Approach Can Improve Physician Engagement

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Strategy used by one practice improved physician engagement and relieved burnout
Screening colonoscopy significantly reduces mortality from colorectal cancer

More Evidence Colonoscopy Cuts Colorectal Cancer Mortality

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Colonoscopy lessens mortality for all colorectal cancer, but more so for left-sided disease