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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) prostate cancer database found that among men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer (based on pathology and a PSA level lower than 20 ng/mL), active surveillance or watchful waiting increased overall from 5% in 2010 to 12.3% times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. Jennifer: It was 2010.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices.

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