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April 11, 2025For patients with certain types of cancers, brachytherapy can provide a precise, less invasive treatment to a limited area of the body, reducing radiation exposure to healthy tissue. Now, a new techn...
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March 30, 2022
By MedStar Team
Here’s what you need to know about bone cancer, a rare but life-threatening type of cancer. -
March 18, 2022
Colon cancer is the third-most commonly diagnosed cancer in U.S. adults, excluding skin cancers. And the trend of cancer in younger patients continues, with diagnoses and death rates on the rise in p...
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March 16, 2022
By Marc E. Boisvert, MD, Breast Surgery
Radiation therapy plays a critical role in preventing cancer recurrence and is often recommended for women with breast cancer undergoing a lumpectomy. However, traditional radiation therapy requires ...
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March 11, 2022
By Sara E. Berkey, MD, Colon & Rectal Surgery
When a patient is diagnosed with early-stage colon cancer, we start talking right away about how to keep it from coming back after treatment. Though thinking that far ahead might seem strange...
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February 02, 2022
Everyone knows someone—a family member, friend, colleague, or neighbor—that has battled breast cancer. In 2021 alone, about 281,000 women will receive an invasive breast cancer diagnosis,...
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January 28, 2022
This blog was written by Charlotte Gamble MD, MPH and Lauren Damle, MD. With over 14 million new infections every year, human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infectio...
