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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. So, among folks ever diagnosed with head and neck cancers, prevalence of substance use disorders was 9%.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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