Not all new and often expensive cancer medications that hit the market in the past years are proving as effective as hoped in practice. The medicines for some types of cancers seem to increase their patients’ chance of survival, but others seem to have little effect, De Volksrkant reports based on figures from the Netherlands comprehensive cancer center IKNL.
In this seminar, Marissa will present her research on the associations between socioeconomic status, recurrence and excess mortality in young breast cancer patients in the Netherlands.
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18 Mar 2021
Months after mammograms, colonoscopies and other routine cancer screenings were suspended because of the pandemic, researchers are studying the impact
Researchers study impact of pandemic cancer screening pauseBy MARILYNN MARCHIONEAP Chief Medical WriterThe Associated Press
John Abraham’s colonoscopy was postponed for several months because of the pandemic. When he finally got it, doctors found a growth too big to be removed safely during the scope exam. He had to wait several weeks for surgery, then several more to learn it had not yet turned cancerous.
“I absolutely wonder if I had gotten screened when I was supposed to have, if this would have been different” and surgery could have been avoided, said Abraham, a mortgage banker in Peoria, Illinois.
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John Abraham’s colonoscopy was postponed for several months because of the pandemic. When he finally got it, doctors found a growth too big to be removed safely during the scope exam. He had to wait several weeks for surgery, then several more to learn it had not yet turned cancerous.