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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. All of a sudden, as a 49 year old, I see I have a PSA on my lab test. Well, not recently, like six months, a year ago. I forget when after not having had one and even before I saw the person.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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William: So ASCO decided to make a high priority this year to redo the guidelines, which were originally released in 2018. Like getting a donor, doing all the different tests, making sure there’s not going be an interaction. Eric: But if the Practical Geriatric Assessment was a lab test, everybody would get it.