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Unconventional treatments more common with cancer patients
Despite a growing trend among cancer patients to look for "natural" alternatives to traditional treatments, many doctors warn that such decisions could jeopardize any chance at all of beating the... Read more...
Study: Genetic testing could save millions on cancer care
With cancer treatments boasting staggeringly high pricetags, there's good reason to give such drugs only to patients who can benefit from them. Increasingly, however, it's looking like genetic... Read more...
Hospitals piling up nuclear waste
Hospitals go through radioactive material--a lot of it, in fact--but industry leaders seldom pay much attention to the problem. Generators of such material include radioactive cesium isotopes and... Read more...
Study: Cancer survivability affected by patient location
A new study has concluded that the country patients live in--not to mention their skin color--have an impact on whether they survive cancer. These differences in survival are fueled by differences in... Read more...
Personalized cancer treatment on the rise, cutting drug spend
If research presented at this year's annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology is any indication, the time could arrive sooner than expected for "personalized medicine," in which... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Farrah Fawcett's cancer records illegally reviewed; Women's Hospital in TX to close; and much more...
> Prior to Britney Spears's hospital files being illegally viewed by some members of UCLA's medical staff, Farrah Fawcett suffered the same fate. Records of her cancer treatments at the same... Read more...
