By: Mark Leiser From: healio.com This year’s San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium featured several high-impact abstracts. Findings of potentially practice-changing studies highlighted the benefit of new therapeutic regimens and the potential to de-escalate treatment for certain patients. Healio presents this overview of some of the important SABCS research that may be relevant to your practice. These experts and many other …
Finances Weigh Heavily on Older Cancer Patients
By: Charles Bankhead From: medpagetoday.com Despite access to Medicare in most cases, older patients with cancer remained deeply concerned about financial burdens from their medical care, a survey of almost 1,500 patients showed. Financial hardship had a consistent and significantly negative impact on older patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Symptoms, disability, lack of emotional support, and other factors also …