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Targeted therapy regimen, BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib) in combination with cetuximab, included on MOH Cancer Drug List, for the treatment of adult patients with BRAFV600E-mutant. ....
During 2020′s pandemic lockdowns, popular Kiwi comedian Dai Henwood was diagnosed with metastatic bowel cancer . Now he’s revealing how he felt when he was. ....
Background: Women living with mental health conditions may not have shared in improvements in breast cancer screening and care. No studies have directly examined the link between reduced screening participation and breast cancer spread in women using mental health (MH) services. Methods: Population-wide linkage of a population cancer register, BreastScreen register, and mental health service data set in women aged 50 to 74 years in New South Wales, Australia, from 2008 to 2017. Incident invasive breast cancers were identified. Predictors of degree of spread (local, regional, metastatic) at diagnosis were examined using partial proportional odds regression, adjusting for age, socioeconomic status, rurality, and patterns of screening participation. Results: A total of 29 966 incident cancers were identified and included 686 (2.4%) in women with MH service before cancer diagnoses. More than half of MH service users had regional or metastatic spread at diagnosis (adjusted odds ratio, 1.63; ....