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When I was at the American Cancer Society, when we sat down to write lung cancer guidelines, it took a group of 14 people almost a year to come up with the wording. And then we tested the wording on focus groups, working with doctors and nurses and lay people to try to figure out if we were communicating effectively, the CDC doesn't have time to do that.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
I really feel for the people at The CDC, they're damned if they do, and they're damned if they don't.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
We have been devastated by the coronavirus more so than any other country. We are 4% of the world’s population, more than 20% of the world’s coronavirus deaths.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The focus really needs to be broad spread of getting every American adequate care. And health care needs to be defined as prevention as well as treatment.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
One of the problems has been that these patients don't get genetic sequencing or they get it so late they can't benefit from the drug.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Maybe these products cause cancer, maybe they don't, but maybe this is something that science simply just can not answer.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Over the past 20 years we are learning of a number of genes that can have a mutation. Some change our treatment.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'd love to do a study where you look at individual doctors and you look at individual doctor's outcomes.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Traditional surgery is needed in some patients who have a history of bowel obstruction or other complications.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If Otis Brawley trust that doctor and that doctor feels comfortable using the scope or the robot, my gut feeling is, it's OK to get that surgery done with the scope or the robot with that particular doctor.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Frankly, these conversations do not happen enough in this country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Then what typically happens is, you end up with a patient on a ventilator, in intensive care, with all kinds of drugs to support their blood pressure and other body functions, the quality of that person's life for their final days is absolutely awful.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It also reinforces the linear relationship between drinking alcohol and cancer risk : The more you drink, the higher the risk, alcohol is estimated to be the third-largest modifiable risk factor for cancer, responsible for 5.6 % of cancers.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Survival analysis is prone to some biases, which can mislead even the most experienced of clinical trialists.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have a lot of patients who spend their families into bankruptcy getting a hyped therapy that [many] know is worthless.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Bert Vogelstein is an incredibly well-respected, well-known cancer biologist who published a paper very similar to this -- you might even call it part one of this paper -- two years ago.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The best studies that we have show that mammography reduces risk of death by 30 %.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We still have huge debates whether there's a benefit to prostate cancer screening. There, the benefit might be to a subset of men and not to all men -- that's an unknown, that's a question mark.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
In the 1960s and 1970s, we stopped doing chest X-ray screening for lung cancer because, after 20 years of doing it, we finally got around to doing an assessment and we found the death rates were higher in the screened versus the unscreened group.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Keep in mind it's a mathematical simulation, it's not a clinical trial, but [ Vogelstein is ] noting that a certain number of cases are due to replication error, DNA replication error, in normal growth.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There's a tendency in the US to think that every screening test is great. Unfortunately there are screening tests that actually cause more harm than good, in the 1960s and 1970s, we stopped doing chest X-ray screening for lung cancer because, after 20 years of doing it, we finally got around to doing an assessment and we found the death rates were higher in the screened versus the unscreened group.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
And it really upset the anti-smoking people, it upset the folks who are in the nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention -- Bert Vogelstein really upset the prevention crowd, keep in mind it's a mathematical simulation, it's not a clinical trial, but [ Vogelstein is ] noting that a certain number of cases are due to replication error, DNA replication error, in normal growth.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think a person who is in command and control of a cancer program can get us all moving in the same direction rather than competing and trying to hang onto our findings. When we share our findings, we are better for it.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
In my world, 'cure' is a four letter word, but we are going to cure some people.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We all recognize that the patient should be empowered and the patient should control her own body.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We need to also focus on the fact that there are some good screening tests that actually clearly save lives, that we are not using enough, i would point out that 55% to 60% of Americans over the age of 50 are up do date on colorectal cancer screening. We could save a lot of lives if we could just get to 80% by 2018. We could help to decrease the cancer death rate that way. I would point out that there is no debate that mammography saves lives -- and if you look at women over the age of 45, about a third to 40% are not up to date on mammography. Many have never actually even had a mammogram, and we need to work on that.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I don't think the two diseases ought to be competing against each other, i think we need to realize that some of the causes of heart diseases are major causes of cancer. We talk a lot about high caloric intake, obesity and lack of physical activity. Those are risk factors for heart disease, as well as cancer. We talk a great deal about tobacco use. That's a risk factor for heart disease as well as cancer. We need to double down and work on all of those things.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We have a large number of people who, even though they get health care, they get inadequate health care -- or, less than high quality health care, if we could improve those logistics, we could decrease the death rate from cancer even more.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
A higher proportion of black men are challenged in terms of health literacy and less likely to seek out prostate cancer specialists.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There are some social impediments to getting to those specialists even when one has insurance.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If she starts screening at age 40, she increases the risk that she'll need a breast cancer biopsy that turns out with the doctor saying 'You don't have cancer, so sorry we put you through all this,'.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
False positives are a huge deal, these women are so frightened and inconvenienced they swear off mammography for the rest of their lives.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We have always been taught to fear cancer, that all cancer is bad, and all cancer should be operated on.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's not whether you have pancreatic cancer, or colon cancer or lung cancer that's going to be important to the treating clinician, what's going to be important to the treating clinician is what's wrong with your tumor at a molecular level.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We've done the science. We've proven that it lowers the risk for women at high risk and I don't understand why more people won't take it, we have a large number of women who are undergoing the surgical removal of both breasts to reduce their risk of breast cancer, yet we have a pill with very few side effects that can prevent cancer and people are passing it up.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Go talk to your internist who did the referral, that's someone with whom you should have an open and honest conversation about this. You should be getting, at the absolute minimum, a high-quality mammogram every year with a radiologist who is aware of the previous diagnosis. She should perhaps consider getting an MRI screening.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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