All Articles on Cancer

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  Nurse navigators may aid colon cancer screening follow-up

  After positive screening test, they may help Group Health patients get needed diagnosis.
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  How can radiologists detect breast cancer more accurately?

  Research suggests having radiologists do diagnostic workups of some of their own recalled cases can help improve accuracy.
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  Lemonade from lemons: Breast cancer group gains momentum

  Group Health believes women with breast cancer need their own support group. Thanks to a grant from the Group Health Foundation’s Partnership for Innovation, the Lemonade group was born.
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  Getting to Goldilocks: ‘Just right’ breast screening

  For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Diana Buist tells how Kaiser Permanente research helps women and their doctors decide if, when, and how to screen.
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  Wall Street Journal shines light on our patient researchers

  As patients assume their groundbreaking role in breast cancer research at KPWHRI, the national press takes notice.
• Recently using some birth control pills may raise breast cancer risk

  Women who recently used birth control pills containing high-dose estrogen and a few other formulations had an increased risk for breast cancer, whereas women using some other formulations did not, according to a report about Group Health patients published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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  How to prevent disparities in colon cancer screening

  Group Health, Kaiser Permanente researchers in JAMA Internal Medicine