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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.”

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.

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].

When glutamate binds to the cancer cells’ NMDA receptors, a channel opens and calcium flows into the cell. This influx triggers molecular signaling cascades that drive tumor growth and metastasis.

“These results would really shift our practice from starting it once patients have developed numerous skin cancers to starting it earlier. We still need to do a better job of identifying who will actually benefit, as roughly only half of patients will develop multiple skin cancers.” – Lee Wheless, MD, PhD