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Many Childhood Cancer Survivors Not Checking for Second Malignancies
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 "But before we say this should be the standard of care, we should await the findings of many randomized trials forthcoming in the next years," she added.
In other news at the meeting, researchers from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., reported that while upwards of 70 percent of oncologists surveyed discuss fertility and preservation methods with their patients of childbearing age, less than 50 percent of patients are receiving adequate information on the topic.
And researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia found that colon cancer patients who receive treatment for often severe drug-related skin rashes before the rashes appear are less likely to have the side effect.
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SOURCES: Smita Bhatia, head, childhood survivorship clinic, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, Calif.; Aziza Shad, M.D., director of the cancer survivorship program, Georgetown University's Lombardi Cancer Center, Washington, D.C.; June 1, 2009, press conference with Jennifer C. Obel, M.D. attending physician, NorthShore University Health System, Illinois; Paul Nathan, M.D., staff oncologist, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; Margaret Stuber, M.D., the Jane and Marc Nathanson professor of psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine; June 1, 2009, American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, Orlando, Fla.
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