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“A patient who is considered neutropenic, if they spike a low-grade temperature of 100.4, they can go from being alive and well to dead in three hours,” Palmeri testified, explaining why oncologists ultimately withdrew acute hematology services after documenting that nurses “were not checking temperature in the time frames that they’re supposed to check.”

When hair turns gray, it may signal that the body has also avoided melanoma, as pigment-producing stem cells can either become depleted, which leads to hair graying, or multiply, depending on the kind of stress and signals in their environment.

PORT is recommended for patients with cSCC having close or positive margins that cannot be corrected with further surgery (secondary to morbidity or adverse cosmetic outcome). In patients with cSCC, PORT is recommended for T3 and T4 tumors—both strong recommendations with moderate to low evidence quality.

Providers nationwide are experiencing an uptick in health plans denying payments by improperly asserting that providers are not coding their claims correctly.

The research suggests that patients with cancer who previously received preventative prescriptions even without pain may now be less likely to receive a prescription until they begin reporting pain.

Although men in this cohort have a good prognosis, this finding is clinically relevant, as change in PSA is a factor in determining whether men opt to remain on [active surveillance].