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Back to SearchInformation can help people decide to forgo cancer screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports
When given appropriate information about mammogram screenings, including benefits, harms, and who should consider screening cessation, a cohort of ol…
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What are the factors that keep people who won’t benefit from health screenings going? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Even when people know they can discontinue health screenings for things like cancer they often continue the practice. Nancy Schoenborn, a geriatrics …
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How might you feel about being told you can stop cancer screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Just as there’s a point in life when cancer screenings should begin, so too is there a point at which they can stop. That’s usually because the likel…
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How should preventive healthcare change as people age? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Research on when preventive healthcare like cancer screenings should start is abundant, with some guidelines, such as for breast or colorectal cancer…
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How would you feel about being screened for dementia on a regular basis? Elizabeth Tracey reports
About half of people who have dementia don’t know it, and those people are at risk for worse outcomes when they’re hospitalized. That’s according to …
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People with dementia but no diagnosis can have more problematic hospitalizations, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Older people with undiagnosed dementia who get hospitalized experience worse outcomes than other groups of older adults who require hospitalization, …
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Undiagnosed dementia can be risky, especially when someone is hospitalized, Elizabeth Tracey reports
People who have dementia frequently aren’t diagnosed, and when such a person is hospitalized they are at much higher risk for poorer outcomes. That’s…
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Can peripheral blood sampling be combined with radiation therapy for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Cancers continue to change, or mutate, as time goes on, often acquiring the ability to outmaneuver treatments. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researche…
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A combination of strategies help determine best cancer treatment strategies, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Genetics are foundational to much of cancer treatment, and now both the environment surrounding the tumor as well as analysis of cancer cells shed in…
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How does radiation benefit the body’s response to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Radiation of a primary tumor can activate immune cells around distant metastases, a study by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins…
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