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Patient documentation is an integral element in providing quality cancer care. Moreover, with health care moving to a pay for performance landscape, oncology practices need to respond to quality...
For the 53,000 Americans who will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, news on the treatment front is slowly but assuredly improving. This disease, often considered one of the most difficult...
Sometimes the human body starts to defy rules and goes against itself. Cells of the body start to change their shape and forget their actual role in the body. In lay man’s language they start to fight...
For years, men were told as they age that going in for routine prostate cancer screening that included a simple blood test was the key to getting ahead of this potentially fatal condition. Now, many...
Patients who are diagnosed with cancer may find their doctors and insurance companies follow protocols that are called "clinical pathways" to guide decisions related to recommended care. These...
While cancer is often caused by a number of controllable factors, such as tobacco use, obesity and exposure to toxins, genetics also plays a strong role in determining an individual’s particular...
A brain tumor is the collection of abnormal cells in the brain of a human body. Skull is a very rigid structure which encloses the brain and any growth is inside such a restricted place can cause...
Pathology being the laboratory study of the disease where the nature, causes and effects of the abnormality in the body is examined makes it an important field of Medical Science. To examine these...
One of the most disconcerting issues for the estimated 250,000 American women who are diagnosed with breast cancer annually to face down is the potential of undergoing a mastectomy. While this surgery...
Breast cancer is a scary diagnosis that nearly 250,000 American women receive annually. Hoping to increase the odds in their favor of never having to hear the diagnosis again, many women undergo...
The American Cancer Society estimates that 224,000 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the coming year. Some 158,000 people will die from the disease. Those who are successful in their...
An estimated 50 percent of all Americans who live to the age of 65 or beyond will face a positive diagnosis of skin cancer at some point in their lifetimes. While many will find that surgical removal...
Patients who undergo surgery to combat lung cancer may not want to hear that an extra step of treatment could prove useful, but research is showing that in some cases going the extra mile can make a...
With one of the worst five-year survival rates of all forms of cancer, pancreatic cancer is considered one of the deadliest forms of this disease. An estimated 48,000 Americans are diagnosed with it...
All men are at risk for prostate cancer as they age. While certain factors, such as age, ethnicity and family history can increase the likelihood, the simple fact is any man can get and die from this...