Up to 8% of cancer patients refuse chemotherapy because they don’t want to lose their hair. Of course, hair loss can cause immense damage to a person’s self-esteem — but it can also strip…
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Language in Healthcare: Khayat stresses the need for a language shift to change mindsets in healthcare, highlighting that words shape reality. She proposes retiring overused terms like “innovation,” “patient-centered,” and “telemedicine,” advocating instead for…
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Prescribing cancer treatment at South Australia’s flagship hospital Royal Adelaide Hospital has gone digital. The electronic cloud-based system called iQemo is now live at RAH, whose Cancer Day Centre delivers 17,000 cancer treatments to South…
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Background: As the most malignant type of cancer in the female reproductive system, ovarian cancer (OC) has become the second leading cause of death among Chinese women. Chemotherapy is the main treatment for OC…
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Health tech firm System C has announced the strategic acquisition of CIS Oncology, marking a significant expansion of its medicines management offerings.
Once integrated, System C customers will be able to manage their entire prescription…
New AI Technology Enhances Cancer Treatment: Introduction
In the field of cancer treatment, personalized medicine has become a crucial focus, with immunotherapy revolutionizing the treatment of many cancers. However, predicting which patients will respond positively…
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AstraZeneca has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation radioconjugates (RCs).The acquisition marks a major step forward in AstraZeneca delivering on its ambition to…
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Extravasation, the leakage of fluids such as chemotherapy drugs out of intravenous lines into the bloodstream, can cause serious and sometimes lasting injuries. An American company, ivWatch, is piloting a product in the UK…
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Carrum Health’s collaboration with Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute facilitates a paradigm shift in breast cancer care accessibility. This union grants non-metastatic breast cancer patients associated with Carrum Health-linked employers a substantial two-year…
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By Shania Kennedy
November 30, 2023 – Researchers from Northwestern University have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that may be able to spare breast cancer patients unnecessary chemotherapy treatments by using cell patterns to predict…
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