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CancerSEEK: Blood Test That Detects Eight Common Cancers This blood test combines an analysis of DNA and levels of cancer protein biomarkers and can detect eight different cancers. But it is not ready yet for clinical use.
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018

Survival After Breast Cancer 'Unaffected by BRCA Status' The likelihood that young women survive primary breast cancer is unaffected by whether or not they carry mutations in the BRCA gene, say UK researchers in a 10-year follow-up study.
Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2018
GICS Question Over Ramucirumab in First-Line Gastric Cancer In combination with chemotherapy, ramucirumab improved progression-free survival but not overall survival or response rate in advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancers.
Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2018
MGUS in 3% of Population: What to Do? Evidence for clinical practice and follow-up is limited, and experts offer suggestions based on the literature and their own practice at the Mayo Clinic.
Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2018
Experts Welcome Adjuvant Nivolumab for Melanoma The PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab was recently approved by the FDA for adjuvant use in completely resected stage III or IV melanoma, a move welcomed by experts in the field.
Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2018

Clear Path to Reducing Cancer Risk in China Dr David Kerr describes an epidemiologic study that found three standout risk factors for cancer in Chinese men and women.
Medscape Oncology, December 21, 2017
Seeking Consensus Amid Abundant New Lung Cancer Data Dr Mark Kris on the big take-away lessons from the recent New York Lung Cancers Symposium.
Medscape Oncology, December 28, 2017
Oncologists Need to Encourage Their Patients to Exercise Even a brief conversation about exercise can reap significant health benefits to patients, argues Dr Markman.
Medscape Oncology, December 18, 2017
New GI Cancer Studies: Curious Failures, Hidden Gems Dr John Marshall on recent publications, both positive and negative, that may change your practice.
Medscape Oncology, January 3, 2018
'Cultural Change' in DCIS Some think it's time to change how we talk about DCIS and to consider de-escalation of therapy. Drs Kathy Miller and Shelley Hwang discuss these hot topics and the COMET study at SABCS 2017.
Medscape Oncology, January 17, 2018
Eric Topol's Top 10 Tech Advances Shaping Medicine Dr Eric Topol identifies the latest tech advances in medicine that set the stage for the coming year.
Medscape, January 11, 2018

Alert New HHS Division to Protect Clinicians With Religious Objections The Trump administration opens the new unit within HHS to focus on claims of coercion on medical staff to perform abortions and other procedures over religious objections.
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018
Flu Intensity, IV Bag Shortage Have Hospitals Scrambling
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018
Health Programs Threatened by Possible Government Shutdown
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2018
A Nudge May Be Enough to Change Healthcare Behavior
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2018

Government Ban on Seven Words Creates Anger Among Physicians Last year, the Washington Post reported that the CDC was banned from using seven scientific words. What do physicians think of the ban?
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 19, 2018
Burnout Might Really Be Depression; How Do Doctors Cope? Medscape asked physicians whether they experienced burnout, depression, or both. Some experts say that burnout is really a form of depression. Would that change the recommended treatment?
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 17, 2018

Eric J. Topol, MD Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Executive Vice President and Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape