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June 17, 2024
MedStar Health Research Institute is now enrolling patients in the prospective, multi-center Pathfinder 2 trial of an early detection test for multiple types of cancer. The sooner cancer is found, th...
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December 08, 2020
By Arul M. Thomas, MD, Transplant Hepatology
The liver isn’t just the largest internal organ, it’s among the most important. You can’t live without it. About the size of a football, it’s located in the upper right part of the abdomen and pr...
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November 18, 2020
Editor’s Note: The photo above was taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the U.S. and around the world, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths for both men and women, killing 1.7 mi...
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November 11, 2020
By Irina Veytsman, MD, Medical hematologist and oncologist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer, as more people in the United States die from the disease than any other type of cancer. And, although survival rates are much higher than they were th...
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November 05, 2020
When Dana Reeve—wife of disabled actor Christopher Reeve and a well-known activist for disabled persons’ rights—succumbed to lung cancer at age 44, her death raised a lot of eyebrows—and a lot of awa...
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October 27, 2020
Are you a tea drinker, sometimes drinking multiple cups a day? It may be time to “cool things down.” A recent study suggests a significant link between hot tea and esophageal cancer. Surpr...
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October 22, 2020
By Marc E. Boisvert, MD, Breast Surgery
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Over the past decade, advances in breast cancer have been changing women’s lives for the better. Take breast conservation surgery. Lumpectomy followed by radiat...