Secrecy penalises cancer patients
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Drug companies which fail to disclose the results of clinical trials are harming the treatment of cancer patients, doctors say.
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Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient's relatives when the patient has an inherited disease or mutation that could afflict other members of the family.    In an article in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors and legal experts argued against imposing a mandatory "duty to warn" nonpatients...
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Advances in genetic testing are straining the sacred bond of confidentiality between doctor and patient as physicians grapple with whether to keep private diagnoses that might also afflict patients' relatives.
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Cancer patients are being put at risk because of the refusal of drug companies to publish the results of clinical trials, scientists claimed yesterday.
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More patients are receiving cancer drugs, according to a report by the UK government's cancer tsar.
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Terminally-ill cancer patients should not believe that they can put off dying to avoid missing significant events such as birthdays, weddings, or Christmas, say scientists.
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St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown, Md. has become the second hospital in the state in the last week to disclose a potential compromise of patients' personal data.
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There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of  the disease, a survey suggests.
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A hospital tries to contact patients after admitting errors were made by a pathologist in diagnosing cases of cancer.
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Waiting for subjects to die is a somber part of the oncology clinical trial process.
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Some fear that doctors will steer patients to I.M.R.T. radiation therapy because it has higher profit potential.
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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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According to new British study, patients who use the internet to find out information about chronic disease rather than listening to their doctor could be putting their health at risk.
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Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient's relatives when the patient has an inherited disease or mutation that could afflict other members of the family.
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Doctors are closer to predicting which  cancer patients can skip chemotherapy and avoid the brutal side  effects of that staple of cancer care, doctors at a major  medical meeting said on Tuesday.
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A technician at a cancer center was sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.
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The effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be rapidly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient's blood, according to a study.