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AI helps predict treatment outcomes for patients with diseased dental implants
The algorithm FARDEEP offers a personalized approach to identify patients who better respond to regenerative therapies.
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Treatment enhances anti-leukemia effect of bone marrow transplant, reduces recurrence, study finds
In a clinical trial, adding interferon treatment with a bone marrow transplant bolstered outcomes for patients with advanced, high-risk leukemia.
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Dancing Her Cancer Stress Away
Despite living with an adenoid cystic carcinoma, Celina Pitt finds joy in nightly dance parties with her husband.
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How One Doctor Aims to Combat Structural Racism in Medicine
A urologic oncology fellow dedicates his career to debunking false notions about racial biology.
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A Trusting Relationship with Her Provider – and Zumba – Help One Woman Get Past Metastatic Colon Cancer
From early stage colon cancer to advanced metastatic disease, Jennifer Watson’s cancer journey illustrates the importance of advocating for your health and partnering with a care team you trust.
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Work, Humor and Family Help Stage 4 Cancer Patient Thrive
Facing a challenging diagnosis of metastatic urologic cancer, one of the state’s top communications professionals leans into her job, laughter and love.
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A Cure for the Medicine: Helping Patients with Gynecologic Cancer Manage Treatment Side Effects
Estrogen-lowering aromatase inhibitors are frequently prescribed to women with ovarian and uterine cancers. New research sheds light on how side effects impact these patients.
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Finding Your Place in The Medical Field
An endocrinologist specializing in thyroid cancer and creator of the Hemoglobin A1c test for diabetes reflects on his career, offering advice for aspiring researchers.
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Health Inequality Actually Is a “Black and White Issue”, Research Says
University of Michigan research shows the direct correlation between systemic racism and racial health disparities in the United States.
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Living with Brain Cancer: Embracing a Difficult Diagnosis
Since receiving a rare brain cancer diagnosis, one patient describes how her care plan at Michigan Medicine to treat her oligodendroglioma has helped, and how she is now helping others around her.
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Michigan Health Lab's 20 for 2020
The most read stories of 2019 on the Michigan Health Lab blog.
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A Chance to Speak Her Name: Tara Ogunde
A U-M law student, who passed of breast cancer in 2019, is remembered by her family and school in a special way.
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Ovarian Cancer Survivorship and Living Without a ‘Finish Line’
An ovarian cancer diagnosis gave one 26-year-old patient new perspectives on life and adventure.
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A Cross-Country Journey to Treat Adrenal Cancer
One mom’s journey from Arizona to Michigan to be the first adrenal cancer patient to undergo an innovative procedure called HIPEC.
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Major Strides in Pancreatic Cancer Give ‘Actual Reasons for Hope’
More funding, scientific insights and clinical advances have started to drive progress in this challenging disease, and researchers see potential for immunotherapy to revolutionize its future.