Viewpoint: Do male doctors tend to be paternalistic when treating 'female' diseases?

Viewpoint: Do male doctors tend to be paternalistic when treating ‘female’ diseases?

Doreen Carvajal | 
When my silent assassin emerged last autumn, I pressed my surgeon about the prognosis for a form of peritoneal cancer ...
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Were ‘crucial contributors’ snubbed in awarding Nobel prize for cancer immunotherapy?

Sharon Begley | 
[I]t’s rare that Nobel announcements don’t produce grumblings about who was left out, and this year was no exception. At ...
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Pioneering cancer immunotherapy researchers awarded Nobel Prize in medicine

Laurie McGinley, Lenny Bernstein | 
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday [Oct. 1, 2018] to cancer researchers James P. Allison and ...
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Cancer quest: Can we drive down the cost of promising immunotherapy treatments?

Ian Haydon | 
The so-called fourth pillar of cancer therapy still has a major drawback - high cost that make gold appear cheap ...
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2 young leukemia patients cured with T-cell immunotherapy using genetically engineered donor cells

Meredith Knight | 
Gene-edited immune cells cure two British babies with childhood leukemia. But instead of patient-specific cells, doctors used cheaper universal cells ...
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Fighting cancer by shifting the body’s immune system into overdrive

Meredith Knight | 
Gene-targeted treatments and immunotherapy offer great promise to cure cancer, but they work in less than half of patients and ...
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It’s not cancer: Removing cancer label from some conditions may greatly improve care

Meredith Knight | 
A common thyroid tumor is reclassified as ‘not cancer.’ Will our growing knowledge cancer genetics lead to more reclassifications? ...
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Immune therapy for cancer needs the right gut stuff

Meredith Knight | 
A patient’s microbiome influences how well a new class of immune system cancer drugs work ...
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Deeply religious Jimmy Carter embraces cutting edge science in cancer battle

David Warmflash | 
Former President Jimmy Carter is doing what he can to prevent nature from running its malignant course, undergoing immunotherapy, which ...
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