Cancer care quality assessed

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A first ever study on the quality of cancer care in the United States triggered by a report by the Institute of Medicine's National Cancer Policy Board concluded that the majority of patients receive excellent care though there is room for improvements in certain areas. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the RAND Corporation carried out the study whose findings will be incorporated by the American Society of Clinical Oncology into educational programs, policies and communications with oncologists.

Evaluation, Reports, Medical care, Medical care quality

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Cancer survivors need better care: New report makes recommendations

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The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academies' report recommended that cancer patients should receive a 'survivorship care plan' to improve their health care and quality of life after cancer. The report aims to create general awareness of better treatments for cancer therapies' lasting adverse effects, which can include infertility, sexual dysfunction, cognitive impairment, psychological stress, and increased risks of recurrent and second cancers.

Care and treatment, Cancer survivors, Cancer regression

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Full-body CT scans scale up cancer risk

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David Brenner, lead investigator from Columbia University in New York City, stated that there is direct epidemiological evidence that the sorts of doses of relevance for a single full-body Computed Tomography (CT) scan do increase an individualEs cancer risk. Brenner and coauthors found that undergoing a single full-body CT scan at age 45 years would confer an estimated risk of 0.08% of developing a fatal radiation-induced cancer, about 1 death in 1200 individuals.

New York, Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories, Cancer Diagnosis, Complications and side effects, CT imaging, CAT scans

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