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Model Provides Template for High-Income & Emerging Economies to Plan Cancer Surgery Provision

Model Provides Template for High-Income & Emerging Economies to Plan Cancer Surgery Provision A guideline-based model described in The Lancet Oncology may provide a new template for high-income and emerging economies to rationally plan and evaluate their cancer surgery provision. The model replicates examples of benchmarking radiotherapy and chemotherapy demand for cancer surgery across all […]

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University of Kansas Health System adds new radiation treatment for breast cancer patients

University of Kansas Health System adds new radiation treatment for breast cancer patients KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A local hospital is giving breast cancer patients a sign of hope with a new form of radiation treatment. Betty Dickinson, who lives in Plattsburg, Missouri is diligent about her mammograms. “I go with three or four other […]

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CEO, Breast Cancer Survivor Discusses New Gel to Improve Sexual Quality of Life in Patients with …

CEO, Breast Cancer Survivor Discusses New Gel to Improve Sexual Quality of Life in Patients with … In 2018, Evofem Biosciences founder and CEO Saundra Pelletier was developing Phexxi, a non-hormonal contraceptive gel for women, when she was blindsided by a diagnosis of aggressive, stage 3 breast cancer. After treatments that included chemotherapy, a double […]

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