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WCLC Lung Cancer Community: 'This Is Our Fight' At the premier gathering of the lung cancer community, the first plenary session speaker insisted: 'We cannot deal with lung cancer and not fight against tobacco.'
Medscape Medical News, October 17, 2017

Regular Walking, Even if Minimal, Tied to Lower Death Risk In a large cancer prevention cohort study, regular walking -- even below the minimum recommended levels for physical fitness -- was tied to reduced all-cause mortality risk compared with inactivity in older Americans
Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2017
A Black, White Mortality Gap Much Explained by Insurance Having no insurance or inadequate insurance accounts for more than a third of the excess mortality risk between black and white women with early-stage breast cancer in the United States.
Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2017
Sperm Banking Underutilized in Young Male Cancer Patients Fertility preservation is an important aspect of cancer care, but young male cancer patients are underutilizing sperm banking.
Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2017
Alert FDA Approves Second CAR T-Cell Therapy The second therapy of this innovative immunotherapy has received FDA approval to treat patients with relapsed/refractory aggressive B-cell NHL.
FDA Approvals, October 18, 2017

A Strategic Merger in Cancer Screening A recent study relates future risk to current risk for advanced colorectal cancer. Dr Kerr suggests adding genetic testing to further improve diagnosis.
Medscape Oncology, October 18, 2017
New ASCO Guideline for NSCLC: 'Precision Medicine at Its Best' According to Dr Kris, new ASCO guidelines for adjuvant management of NSCLC stress the importance of multimodality care.
Medscape Oncology, June 27, 2017
Mitigating Side Effects to Reach PARP Inhibitors' Potential Low-grade nausea could lead women to skip or lower the dose of these agents, says Dr Markman.
Medscape Oncology, October 13, 2017
Will Adjuvant Oxaliplatin Data Change Practice in CRC? Dr John Marshall previews the GI cancer studies being presented at ASCO with his picks for the ones to watch, and predicts that a plenary presentation may be practice-changing.
Medscape Oncology, May 26, 2017
Two 'P' Words Top List of Hot Topics in Breast Cancer Dr Kathy Miller points to PARP inhibitors and pertuzumab as highpoints of the breast cancer program at the upcoming ASCO meeting, including the plenary presentation of the OlympiAD trial.
Medscape Oncology, May 26, 2017
Leading Science Journalist Carl Zimmer on His Genome Dr Eric Topol speaks with science journalist Carl Zimmer about where he gets his ideas, what his genome looks like, and how he got a tapeworm named after him.
Medscape, October 5, 2017

Potentially Preventable Medicare Spending High in Frail Elderly Although frail elderly adults make up a small proportion of high-cost Medicare beneficiaries, they account for the greatest proportion of potentially preventable costs, a new study shows.
Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2017
Fewer ACA Ads, Puzzled Public Threaten Sign-ups, KFF Says
Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2017
'Robust Dialogue' Needed About Equity of Women in Healthcare
Medscape Medical News, October 18, 2017
Should Physicians Treat Gun Violence as a Public Health Threat?
Medscape Reader Polls, October 18, 2017

Should Doctors Embrace or Reject Alternative Treatments? More consumers are using complementary and alternative treatments, and medical centers are adding nontraditional therapies. Should doctors embrace or reject these treatments?
Medscape Business of Medicine, October 18, 2017
How Much Is Your Practice Worth? Many doctors who have a financial stake in a practice don't know what the practice is worth. That's a mistake, say experts in practice valuation. Here's why, and what a practice valuation involves.
Medscape Business of Medicine, October 17, 2017

Eric J. Topol, MD Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health; Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

A Strategic Merger in Cancer Screening A recent study relates future risk to current risk for advanced colorectal cancer. Dr Kerr suggests adding genetic testing to further improve diagnosis.
Medscape Oncology, October 18, 2017
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2017 Annual Meeting
Medscape Pathology, October 10, 2017
When a Physician Finds Himself the Patient
Medscape Rheumatology, October 5, 2017
Adjuvant Nivolumab: New Standard of Care for Melanoma?
Medscape Oncology, September 29, 2017