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Asking the Tough Questions
Guest Blog: Nick Maroulis, Pharm.D. Director of Pharmacy Services, BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Having a child with medical issues, my wife (who is a nurse) and I often find ourselves dealing with other...
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The Miracle of Targeted Therapies
A deadly form of lung cancer occurs in young people – the demographic just hitting their stride in life who least expect a cancer diagnosis. To add insult to injury, the young people struck with this...
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Surgery Soon? First, Check Your Medicine Cabinet
Check Your Medicine Cabinet My mother was recently diagnosed with a 7 mm breast lesion that is a ductal carcinoma. In preparing for surgery, I reviewed her medicines and dietary supplements. Mom is a...
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Compliance On the Cancer Front
Guest Blog: Amanda Brown, Director of Rx Coordinators at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Navigating through cancer treatment tends to go better for patients when healthcare professionals offer...
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Leukemia as Cancer Treatment Consequence
Chemotherapy, while necessary for the treatment of many types of cancer, is known to increase the later risk of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rare but often fatal cancer. A new study from researchers...
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Cancer’s Sweet Tooth
Who doesn’t love a sweet treat? Turns out even cancer cells have a penchant for sugar. Sugar serves as an energy source for any cell to grow and replicate – and cancer cells are no different. But...
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Asking the Tough Questions
Guest Blog: Nick Maroulis, Pharm.D. Director of Pharmacy Services, BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Having a child with medical issues, my wife (who is a nurse) and I often find ourselves dealing with other...
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Chemotherapy on the Brain
Simply surviving cancer gives reason enough to celebrate. To sweeten the pot, researchers at the 2013 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference suggest cancer survivors garner another perk:...
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Blood Pressure-Alzheimer’s Connection
Every 68 seconds an American develops Alzheimer’s disease, so chances are that you already know someone battling this terrible disease. In all, there are an estimated 5.2 million Americans currently...
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Eat Nuts for a Longer Life
Time to put nuts on the menu: a new study reveals that regularly including nuts in one’s diet slashes the risk of dying from any cause (that is, total mortality), as well as from the specific causes of...
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What’s New in Oncology in 2014?
I am excited to let BioPlus BioBlog readers know that Dr. Kimberly Hicks will be a regular guest blogger this year, with a special focus on oncology topics. Dr. Hicks is the Clinical Pharmacy...
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“It’s Personal”
Guest Blog: Kimberly M. Hicks, Pharm.D., M.H.A., Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy BioPlus is committed to supporting and raising awareness of the importance of breast cancer...
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Surfing the Net to Better Health
Guest Blog: Kimberly M. Hicks, Pharm.D., M.H.A., Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Hours spent in front of a computer screen might seem unhealthy at first blush, since it...
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Better Cancer Screening Tests
Kimberly M. Hicks, Pharm.D., M.H.A., Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Screening tests are well-known and regularly used for several cancers, including breast cancer and...
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Even Successful Treatment Can Come With Unintended Effects
Kimberly M. Hicks, Pharm.D., M.H.A., Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy The relationship between breast cancer and a woman’s wallet is a good news/bad news situation. The good...
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Turning the Body into a Cancer-Fighting Machine
Kimberly M. Hicks, Pharm.D., M.H.A., Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy The body’s immune system possesses all the tools it needs to kill cancer cells, so why does cancer sneak...
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The 20 Year Check-In
Kimberly M. Hicks, Pharm.D., M.H.A., Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy It’s been 20 years since BRCA1 – the inherited gene mutation that greatly increases the risk of breast...
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Men Age 50+: More Tests For Your To-Do List
Nick Maroulis, Pharm.D., Director of Pharmacy at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Is the PSA prostate cancer test the best game in town? New prostate cancer tests now bring more complete screening results...
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On the Road to Lung Cancer
While smoking is the so-called smoking gun underlying many cases of lung cancer, it’s not the only risk factor for lung cancer. Several lung diseases can also up a person’s risk for lung cancer. New...
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Leukemia Drug Could Also Help Skin, Breast, and Other Cancers
Kimberly M. Hicks, Pharm.D., M.H.A., Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy A well-known medication used for a specific type of leukemia now shows promise against several other...
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