Common courtesy can humanize cancer care
Cancer care is often impersonal, industrial and needlessly stressful. Allowing patients to witness personal introductions between their physicians would help ease their anxiety and build trust.
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Can a dying patient be a healthy person?
Just because a person is dying does not mean that he or she is in a state of panic. Here's an example of how one woman, through a well-lived life, remained at peace as she faced death.
Could a cannabis pill reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting? Here’s how we find out
NSW is about to embark on the largest and most definitive clinical trial ever of medicinal cannabis for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
New cancer drugs are very expensive - here’s how we work out value for our money
Most of us would agree that cancer drugs should be listed on the PBS, no matter how dear. But our health system can't afford all of them. How then are decisions about which drugs to subsidise made?
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Adelaide
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Adjunct Professor, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at LaTrobe University, and Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
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Medical oncologist from Chris O`Brien Lifehouse cancer hospital, Lead researcher NSW Government clinical trial into the role of cannabis-derived medicines in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, Clinical Associate Professor., University of Sydney
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