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within hours of the original draw and are estimated to cost as little as 10 percent of the traditional Medicare reimbursement .
Antibody-Drug Conjugates Chemotherapy , the only form of treatment available for treating some cancers , destroys cancer cells and harms healthy cells at the same time . A promising new approach for advanced cancer selectively delivers cytotoxic agents to tumor cells while avoiding normal , healthy tissue .
New Drug for Heart Failure Angiotensin-receptor neprilysin inhibitor , or ARNI , has been granted “ fast-track status ” by the FDA because of its impressive survival advantage over the ACE inhibitor enalapril , the current “ gold standard ” for treating patients with heart failure . The unique drug compound represents a paradigm shift in heart failure therapy .
Single-Dose Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer Finding and treating breast cancer in its earliest stages can oftentimes lead to a cure . For most women with early-stage
There are many advancements to the treatment of cancer
breast cancer , a lumpectomy is performed followed by weeks of radiation therapy to reduce the likelihood of recurrence . Intra-operative radiation therapy , or IORT , focuses the radiation on the tumor during surgery as a single-dose , and has proven effective as whole breast radiation .
New Drugs for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Nearly 80,000 American adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis may
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