How Do Chronic Diseases Affect Cancer Treatment?
Find out how a health condition, such as high blood pressure, kidney disease, or heart disease, can affect your cancer care.
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Find out how a health condition, such as high blood pressure, kidney disease, or heart disease, can affect your cancer care.
New research estimates that many cancer cases caught through screening in women over 70 may ultimately be harmless.
Preventive mammograms for breast cancer might be less worthwhile for older women, according to research released this week. The study’s authors estimate that a substantial percentage of cancer cases caught through screening in women over 70 are overdiagnosed, that is, the detection of a tumor that isn’t likely to cause illness before death. In women over 85, more than half of these cases might be overdiagnosed.
/PRNewswire/ -- In the largest study of its kind, researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) used electronic health record (EHR) data from...