WCOE: Precision/Gene-Targeting Medicine Study, Surgery and Early-Stage Breast Carcinoma, Other Updates
| What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. |
In the News: "Major government cancer study will test precision, gene-targeting medicine" https://t.co/nacNaRCo0K via @KPCC #NCIMatch
— National Cancer Institute (@theNCI) June 5, 2015
Doctors Seek Test for Deploying New Life-Extending Cancer Drugs https://t.co/YVluoVMUEb #cancer #immunotherapy
— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) June 5, 2015
Via @nprnews: Questions Remain: Surgery and Early-Stage Breast Carcinoma https://t.co/vNdI68yJYX #breastcancer
— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) June 4, 2015
"Being cancer-free is not the same as being free of cancer." – Dr. Julia Rowland, NCI Office of Cancer Survivorship @CancerAdvocacy #CPAT15
— Shelley Fuld Nasso (@sfuldnasso) June 3, 2015
Economic #Costs a Burden for #Cancer Survivors https://t.co/EW2d6Dgj7l #ASCO15
— The ASCO Post (@ASCOPost) June 3, 2015
Article from @usnews on why docs continue to perform unnecessary & expensive tests like prostate #cancer screening: https://t.co/Ft9DfjRK68
— Peter Ubel (@peterubel) June 3, 2015
