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June 2001 Subscribe | Archived Issues |
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The Importance of Second Opinions
A recent ABC news story cited a study by researchers at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland that found an alarming rate of medical misdiagnoses among pathologists. In a review of 6,000 tissue samples from cancer patients at hospitals around the country, the Hopkins team found that one out of every 71 cases was misdiagnosed. Biopsies were labeled cancerous when they were actually benign (noncancerous); those that were cancerous were sometimes misclassified as the wrong type of cancer.
Complementary Approaches Gradually Accepting Acupuncture Patient Attitudes Toward Palliative Care Snake Venom for Breast Cancer?
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Other Features Coping with Cancer's Financial Side Effects Different Perceptions on the Goals of Chemotherapy Advances in Screening and Diagnosis Oncology and the Human Genome Project Additional Therapy after Lumpectomy and Radiation Continuing Debate on Ductal Lavage Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk Keep an Eye on Cox-2 Inhibitors Researching Environmental Causes of Cancer Issues Facing the Single Survivor
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