Patients suffering from chronic pain should question certain tests, treatments
ASA’s list identified the following recommendations: 1. Don’t prescribe opioid analgesics as first-line therapy to treat chronic non-cancer pain. …
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Younger, early breast cancer patients often undergo unnecessary staging, imaging procedures
Presented at a poster session at the 2013 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium by Carlos Barcenas, M.D., assistant professor in MD Anderson’s Breast Medical Oncology, the study is the first to look at the issue of over-use of staging procedures, including imaging and tumor markers in the diagnosis setting, specifically in younger, early-stage breast cancer patients. Over-testing and unnecessary procedures extends beyond cancer care across the healthcare continuum. …