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Correcting a decade of negative news about mammography

Correcting a decade of negative news about mammography

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Raises Discussion-Worthy Points In Her Breast Cancer Update

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Raises Discussion-Worthy Points In Her Breast Cancer Update

Dr. Robert Califf Shares Ideas About Real-World Evidence And Health Data

Dr. Robert Califf Shares Ideas About Real-World Evidence And Health Data

The Paradoxical Benefits Of A Web App For Cancer Patients

The Paradoxical Benefits Of A Web App For Cancer Patients

How The 21st Century Cures Act Should Support Public Health

How The 21st Century Cures Act Should Support Public Health

Why Patients Support The 21st Century Cures Act

Why Patients Support The 21st Century Cures Act

Magic Johnson’s HIV Story Offers Hope For Cancer Patients

Magic Johnson’s HIV Story Offers Hope For Cancer Patients

The Unfortunate Reality Of A Rising Rate Of Breast Cancer

The Unfortunate Reality Of A Rising Rate Of Breast Cancer

Lip Service To Patients And Caregivers, Or Respect? The Significance Of An FDA Panel’s Review

Lip Service To Patients And Caregivers, Or Respect? The Significance Of An FDA Panel’s Review

Can Journalists Be Too Skeptical About Progress Against Cancer?

Can Journalists Be Too Skeptical About Progress Against Cancer?

On The Death Of Beau Biden, Brain Cancer, Progress And Hope

On The Death Of Beau Biden, Brain Cancer, Progress And Hope

What We Might Learn From The Early-Stage Breast Cancer Disclosures Of Sandra Lee and Rita Wilson

What We Might Learn From The Early-Stage Breast Cancer Disclosures Of Sandra Lee and Rita Wilson

Thinking Ahead: From ‘The Emperor Of All Maladies’ To Precision Medicine In Cancer

Thinking Ahead: From ‘The Emperor Of All Maladies’ To Precision Medicine In Cancer

Understanding Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Cancer Risk And Her Decision To Tell About It

Understanding Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Cancer Risk And Her Decision To Tell About It

Recent Studies Of Mammography Use Shockingly Old Data

Recent Studies Of Mammography Use Shockingly Old Data

On The Death Of David Carr, And Cancer Survivorship

On The Death Of David Carr, And Cancer Survivorship

Why Yes, We Should Treat Cancer

Why Yes, We Should Treat Cancer

Landscape Analysis Reveals How Little Is Known, Or Said, About Metastatic Breast Cancer

Landscape Analysis Reveals How Little Is Known, Or Said, About Metastatic Breast Cancer

For This October, A New Kind Of Breast Cancer Awareness

For This October, A New Kind Of Breast Cancer Awareness

Promoting Empathy: What’s Troubling About a Celebrated Hospital Video

Promoting Empathy: What’s Troubling About a Celebrated Hospital Video

Don’t Judge Her Don't Judge Her!

Don’t Judge Her

Reconciling Lance Armstrong’s Story With the Realities of Cancer Survival

Reconciling Lance Armstrong’s Story With the Realities of Cancer Survival

Vicious Verbiage Targets Cancer Patients’ Voices, at Cardiobrief

Vicious Verbiage Targets Cancer Patients’ Voices, at Cardiobrief

Do Abortions Cause Breast Cancer?

Do Abortions Cause Breast Cancer?

New Article on Mammography Spawns False Hope That Breast Cancer is Not a Dangerous Disease

New Article on Mammography Spawns False Hope That Breast Cancer is Not a Dangerous Disease

The Truth About Breast Cancer and Drinking Red Wine—or Any Alcohol

The Truth About Breast Cancer and Drinking Red Wine—or Any Alcohol

Why the Term ‘Patient’ Is So Important in Health Care

Why the Term ‘Patient’ Is So Important in Health Care

The U-Shaped Curve of Happiness

The U-Shaped Curve of Happiness

The X-Rays of Others

The X-Rays of Others

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