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September 23, 2026
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the U.S., and 1 in 8 will be diagnosed in their lifetime. While those odds aren’t great news, there’s a lot of reason for optimis...
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December 03, 2017MG-SORC Research Finds Unexpected Results on Medicaid Expansion and Reduction of Disparity in AccessBy MedStar Health Research Institute
The research team from the MedStar-Georgetown Surgical Outcomes Research Center (MG-SORC) recently published their findings on mixed effects on pre-ACA Medicaid expansion on access to surgical cancer ...
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November 22, 2017
We’ve made great progress in recent years when it comes to lung cancer. As noted in trends data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentages of people diagnosed with or dying f...
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November 21, 2017
You’re out to lunch with a group of friends when you feel that urge again—you have to go to the bathroom right now. It doesn’t matter that you just went a half-hour ago. You can’t hold it. You excuse ...
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November 17, 2017Despite recent progress in lung cancer research, the survival rate for lung cancer patients remains poor. Only about 18 percent of patients survive five years after being diagnosed with lung cancer. T...
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November 14, 2017While bladder cancer doesn’t get as much press as colon or lung cancer, it’s the fourth-most common type of cancer among men. I see about 10 to 20 new patients each month who are dia...
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November 09, 2017Most people are unfamiliar with the term “palliative care” and often confuse it with hospice. Palliative care and hospice services work with people who are dying. However, palliative care can be provi...
