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Decisional Regret Two-Year after Diagnosis with Low-risk Prostate Cancer in a Population-based Sample [Cancer research (not screening)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients: Black and White men ≤75 years with newly diagnosed LPC, 2014 to 2017. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Population-based sample recruited from two cancer registries. Instrument: Mailed surveys that included validated Decision Regret Scale (DRS), and EPIC-26 prostate cancer-specific QOL measures.

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Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine. Results: To date, more than 225,000 patients have been screened for increased hereditary conditions, such as cancer risk, through these tools in primary care.

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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

Still though, he usually perks up when I come in, because he gets to show me my scans from November 2014 and compare them with now and we both applaud the wondrousness of the miracle that is my recovery. It was me, my liver, up on that screen, with a blob of stuff in it that shouldn't be there. He showed me the new one.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

The study also used mental health screening instruments, the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) for depression, and the General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-2) for anxiety, to better understand this population.  He was elected to serve AAPOR as its Vice President, President, and Past President from 2011-2014.

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

My first breast cancer scare was in 2014, when they discovered calcifications for the first time during a routine mammogram. I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! A simple blood test to screen for cancer risk in patients is growing in demand.

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Multifactorial Drivers of Cognitive Decline in Diabetes

Physician's Weekly

Screening was done using predefined criteria, and 2 researchers independently extracted the data. Study quality was estimated using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) tools.

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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

And we have examples of mutual aid networks and organizations that worked to improve care in the setting of organized abandonment; some of these include the Black Panther Party providing free healthcare in communities, and the Puerto Rican activist organization ‘The Young Lords’ ensuring their community receives tuberculosis screenings.