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Dense Breasts, Cancer Prevention and Early Detection

Myriad Genetics

Dense breast tissue complicates this as it makes cancers more difficult to detect. Healthcare providers recommend annual breast screening with mammography beginning at age 40 for average risk women. When breast cancer is diagnosed early, the chances of successful treatment and survival are significantly higher.

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

Now, roughly 9% of breast cancer diagnoses are in women under age 45 with this percentage continually rising(1). In 2024, I had another scare. I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! Women have a 13% chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetime.

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Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

PEMBlog

Well break down the virology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications of Parvovirus B19. Parvovirus B19 is best known for causing fifth disease, but in certain patients it can lead to some serious complications like aplastic crises, fetal hydrops, or chronic anemia. Treatment and Prevention of Parvovirus B19 Infection.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Eric 08:05 Yeah.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And I wonder, like, how, when you think about these different buckets of diagnoses, especially for somebody like me who does not do psychiatry.

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