AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The average age of a breast cancer diagnosis has statistically been around 65. Now, roughly 9% of breast cancer diagnoses are in women under age 45 with this percentage continually rising(1). I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon!

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Diagnosis Screening IT Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cervical cancer screening rates among middle to older age Latinas (>45yrs) - roughly 6.5 About 90% were either currently or formerly undocumented, 2/3 spoke Spanish, 2/3 made <$50,000 annually, and 1/3 reported inadequate transportation. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses. million people in the U.S.

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Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. “How are things going?”

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatr Rev.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So that’s I think diagnoses. But it was also later on in the disease. Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125