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Cardiac Rehab for Cancer Patients

“implement a multi-level approach to cardiac rehab, which includes exercise; nutritional counseling; and management of weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, and smoking” If you are

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MGUS, PPI’s, Barrett’s Esophagus and Bone Health

Esophageal involvement (barrett’s esophagus) by multiple myelomas is uncommon in the English literature. Here we report an extremely rare involvement in MM/MGUS Hi David- I was diagnosed with Barrett’s

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“Should I be Tested for Cancer?” Maybe Not and Here’s Why

Diagnostic Testing For Cancer Is Tricky-Particularly early stage Breast or Prostate cancer- Written by a credible source, Gilbert Welch is a medical doctor and a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for

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How to Deal with Anxiety and Cancer

A cancer diagnosis can have a huge impact on most patients, families, and caregivers. Feelings of depression, anxiety, and fear are very common and are normal responses to this life-changing experience. Lately,

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Smoldering Multiple Myeloma-Delay Treatment Until Progression!

“…there exists no evidence to suggest that early intervention in Soldering Multiple Myeloma, even when limited to patients at highest risk of progression to active MM, leads to improved overall

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Anti-Inflammatories Improve Antidepressant Treatment

“Certain anti-inflammatory drugs improved antidepressant treatment effects and depression symptoms without increasing risk for adverse events… The first article linked and excerpted below cites

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C-B-D- Ovarian Cancer Complementary Therapy?

“Our findings from this research, as well as prior research, show that KY hemp (CBD) slows ovarian cancer comparable to, or even better than, the current ovarian cancer drug Cisplatin.” Dear

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Cardiotoxicity of Checkpoint Inhibitors

Death resulting from cardiotoxicity of checkpoint inhibitors- myocarditis, pericardial disease, and vasculitis was reported to occur in 50%, 21%, and 6% of patients, respectively. There are short, long-term

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Endoscopic Ultrasound for Esophageal Cancer- Accurate Staging?

“As the most sensitive test for locoregional staging of EC, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) influences the development of an optimal oncologic treatment plan for a significant minority of patients with early

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Cardioprotective Agents Against Anthracycline Cardiotoxicity

Clinical research and practical observations indicated that the cardiotoxicity of anthracyclines is commonly progressive and irreversible. “Anthracycline cardiotoxicity is commonly progressive and

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Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Jump? Lifestyle Modification, Avoid Biopsy…

The authors found that those in the lifestyle modification group had significantly lower total Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) on repeat testing a median of 8 weeks from the first test The problem with

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