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Date: 11/06/2017
According to new research by Michigan Medicine, more than 10 percent of people who had never taken opioids prior to curative-intent surgery for cancer continued to take the drugs three to six months later. The risk is even greater for those who are treated with chemotherapy after surgery.
Date: 11/02/2017
The Stanford Medicine Alumni Association has announced that Max S. Wicha, M.D., will receive the prestigious J. E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine. He will be honored at a dinner held on the Stanford School of Medicine campus on December 9.
Date: 10/24/2017
A new study finds doctors are appropriately using a genetic test to measure breast cancer recurrence risk and to make tailored treatment recommendations.
Date: 10/17/2017
To understand cervical cancer in Ethiopia, U-M’s Rozek has developed a new screening and survey of women. She hopes to compare it with results from other countries in Asia and the Middle East.
Date: 09/28/2017
Tobacco Control Policy (TCP) tool is a simulation model and web-based tool, hosted at the U-M School of Public Health, which can help predict the potential state-by-state impact of changing policies, such as raising cigarette taxes, implementing smoke-free air laws and increasing tobacco control expenditures on deaths avoided and years of life gained.
Date: 09/27/2017
In the hunt for novel treatments against an aggressive form of breast cancer, University of Michigan researchers recently combined a new protein inhibitor with a chemotherapy drug.
Date: 09/25/2017
A new chip etched with fluid channels sends blood samples through a hydrodynamic maze to separate out rare circulating cancer cells into a relatively clean stream for analysis. It is already in use in a breast cancer clinical trial.
Date: 09/25/2017
A new study finds that immune response in prostate cancer may be able to forecast how patients will respond to radiation therapy, as well as their likelihood of disease recurrence and survival outcomes.
Date: 09/22/2017
A nanoparticle-assisted optical imaging technique could one day enable doctors to read those clues in real time, providing a non-invasive precision medicine approach that could match treatment to individual tumors.
Date: 09/22/2017
University of Michigan Radiation Oncologists are attending ASTRO. Issam El Naqa, Robert Dess, Yi Luo, Yue Cao and Payal Soni will be presenting today.