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Cancer information and the Internet: Benefits and risks
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
The Internet has potential to educate the public about health care, but also can harm through misleading and deceptive information.
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The high cost of terminal care: Balancing conflicting goals
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
In caring for patients at the end of life, physicians are often torn by conflicting goals.
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Cancer and the mind: Separating fact from fiction
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
It is quite appropriate for physicians to encourage cancer patients to join support groups. However, these patients should not blame themselves or...
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Assessing and minimizing reproductive risks of cancer chemotherapy
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
Now that more children and young adults are surviving malignant diseases, a new problem is arising: the reproductive effects of intensive...
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What primary care physicians should know about the toxicity of cancer chemotherapy
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
Although symptomatic side effects of chemotherapy reduce a patient's quality of life, organ-system effects are potentially more serious.
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Ethical issues in clinical trials in oncology
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
Ethical questions can arise in a number of situations in oncology clinical trials.
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Calculating cancer risk: It is harder than it seems
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
Many factors make cancer risk assessment difficult, especially when determining the risk for an individual.
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The dilemma of evaluating and treating cancer of unknown primary site
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
In 5% to 10% of cancer cases, the initial presentation reflects metastases and not the primary lesion. How aggressively should one search for the...
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When and how to use serum tumor markers in clinical practice
- Author:
- Maurie Markman, MD
Clinicians have long wanted a simple test sensitive enough to detect cancer in its early stages, yet specific enought to not produce false-...