August 11, 2010
By Emily Slater
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Mr. R is a 46-year-old man with a past medical history of polycythemia vera on hydroxyurea and chronic hepatitis B and C who presented with acutely worsening left upper-quadrant abdominal pain. This occurred in the context…
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Posted in Heme/Onc
June 23, 2010
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Over the last several decades, Westernized countries have become 24-hour societies. Approximately 21 million workers in the US are on non-standard work shifts, including almost 4 million on regular overnight shifts.[1] In 1972, Taylor and Pocock…
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Posted in Clinical Questions, Heme/Onc, Myths and Realities
May 6, 2010
David Shabtai
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In a bold move, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently changed their breast cancer screening guidelines – recommending beginning screening at age 50 and even then only every other year until age 75. Bold, because the…
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Posted in Class Act, Ethics, Heme/Onc
January 20, 2010
Chief-of-service rounds is a new feature of Clinical Correlations. Here we summarize Bellevue Hospital’s Chief of Service Rounds moderated by the Chief of Medicine, Nate Link, MD. This multidisciplinary bimonthly conference focuses on a case that presents a diagnostic or…
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Posted in Chief of Service Rounds, GI, Heme/Onc
December 9, 2009
Annery Garcia
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in western men and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men in the U.S.1 In 2007 approximately 218,890 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer, and it is expected that…
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Posted in Heme/Onc
November 20, 2009
Joshua Strauss, MD
In the second decision of its kind and magnitude in a matter of days, a major medical group has again recommended cutting back on cancer screening for women. On the heels of Monday’s USPSTF release on reducing mammography,…
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Posted in Breaking News, Heme/Onc
November 17, 2009
Aalok Turakhia, MD
As the debate over when to begin screening mammography in women rages on, the United States Prevention Service Task Force (USPSTF) added fuel to the fire by releasing a new recommendation statement in the November 17th issue of…
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Posted in Breaking News, Heme/Onc
September 14, 2009
Michael Ford MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Last spring, The New York Times published a series of articles that examined the status of “the War on Cancer,” initiated some 40 years ago by then president Richard Nixon[1]. The halting pace of this war was made…
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Posted in Heme/Onc, PrimeCuts
May 20, 2009
Aditya Mattoo MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Prompted by personal experience, I thought I would explore the alleged causative role of power lines in hematologic malignancies for the next installment of Myths and Realities. In recent years, two close family friends living at…
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Posted in Heme/Onc, Myths and Realities
April 22, 2009
Michael T. Tees, MD, MPH
On the wards and in the clinic, the physician is frequently presented with a patient with a decreased appetite and alarming weight loss. The patient is likely frustrated with their own fraility, the family is upset…
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Posted in Clinical Questions, Heme/Onc, Nutrition
April 16, 2009
Frederick Gandolfo, MD
Case: An 85 year-old woman admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and after a prolonged hospital course developed heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). She is currently being treated with argatroban and her platelet counts are recovering. You are the covering…
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Posted in Clinical Questions, Heme/Onc
February 25, 2009
Commentary by Christopher Tully MD, PGY-1
Faculty Peer Reviewed
An apple a day. . . keeps the prostate cancer away? While it is an overstatement to say that an apple can prevent cancer, the notion of taking “something” to prevent cancer initiation and…
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Posted in Heme/Onc, Urology
