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November 16, 2024
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Alfred I Neugut

Articles by Alfred I Neugut

Medication Adherence II

Treatment adherence includes compliance with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and even surgery when they are recommended or prescribed. But for this article we focus on oral medications,

Medication Adherence I

You can have the best and most effective treatments, but if patients don’t utilize them or don’t utilize them properly, things are not going to

The Ethics of Henrietta Lacks

When I was a medical student, I worked for two years in a laboratory doing research in cell culture. Naturally the main cell line I

Martha Stewart and Erbitux

I don’t think I have to tell the readers of this column who Martha Stewart is. She is a native of New Jersey, a graduate

Li-Fraumeni Syndrome

Fred Li was born in Canton, China, one of five sons of a prominent World War II Chinese general. In the aftermath of the war,

Second Opinions

Two friends recently contacted me regarding second opinions for close relatives with advanced cancer. Of course, I frequently see patients for second opinions, and my

Racial Disparities

Nowadays one hears the term “disparities” described and lamented upon frequently in the comparison of outcomes between racial or ethnic groups for various diseases, including,

NCI-Funded Cancer Centers

The National Cancer Institute was established in 1937 as the lead institution for the federal government to plan and monitor the conduct of research and