The tone of news stories about celebrity breast cancer treatments may be influencing women’s decisions about their own therapy, researchers suggest. Nancy Keating (HMS) is quoted.
U.S. doctors and hospitals throw out almost $3 billion in unused cancer drugs each year because they come in supersized single-use packages and any unused drugs must be discarded for safety reasons, a recent paper suggests. Nancy Keating (HMS) is quoted.
One of the most respected and influential groups in the continuing breast-cancer screening debate said on Tuesday that women should begin mammograms later and have them less frequently than it had long advocated. Nancy Keating (HMS) co-authored an editorial accompanying the new guidelines.
Some of the differences in breast cancer outcomes between white and black women in the U.S. can be attributed to biology, suggests a new study. Nancy Keating, associate professor of health care policy, is quoted.
