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JACKSONVILLE, Florida — 28 de agosto de 2013.  Un medicamento utilizado para tratar cánceres de la sangre también puede detener la propagación del cáncer de mama invasivo, ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota - 27 de agosto de 2013.  La creciente brecha entre la incidencia del cáncer de tiroides y los fallecimientos a causa de la enfermedad plantean ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota - 27 de agosto de 2013.   El control de las pacientes sometidas a cirugía ginecológica mediante un programa de recuperación mejorada (ERP, ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-8h_dO0W0 An increasing gap between the incidence of thyroid cancer and deaths from the disease suggests that low-risk cancers are being overdiagnosed and overtreated. The study from the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery is in the current issue of the BMJ.  Lead author Juan Brito, M.B.B.S., an endocrine fellow and health care delivery scholar at Mayo Clinic, says, “High-tech imaging technologies such as ultrasound, CT and MRI can detect very small thyroid nodules many of which are slow growing papillary thyroid cancers. This is exposing patients to unnecessary and harmful treatments that are inconsistent with their prognosis.”  Dr. Brito says the surgical removal of all or part of the thyroid gland is a costly procedure and includes a risk of complications such as low calcium levels and nerve injury. Surgical removal procedures in the United States have tripled in the past 30 years — from 3.6 per 100,000 people in 1973 to 11.6 per 100,000 people in 2009. Click here for news release in English Read news release in Spanish Overdiagnosis of Low-Risk Thyroid Cancers Journalists: B-roll and sound bites with Dr. Brito in English and Spanish are in in the downloads

ROCHESTER, Minnesota - 19 de agosto de 2013.   Un nuevo estudio poblacional descubrió que los pacientes con glioblastoma fallecidos en el año 2010, después ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota - 19 de agosto de 2013.   Disfrutar del sol, pero con precauciones es el mensaje que lleva a los niños de toda ...

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, —  14 de agosto de 2013. Los investigadores de la Clínica Mayo en Jacksonville, Florida, han puesto de manifiesto el proceso por el ...