{"id":1103,"date":"2016-09-05T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T21:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medicalrewind.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2016-12-15T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:53:03","slug":"surgeons-cancer-healthcare-industry-cutbacks-whole-brain-radiotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/surgeons-cancer-healthcare-industry-cutbacks-whole-brain-radiotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeons &#038; Cancer, Healthcare Industry Cutbacks, Whole Brain Radiotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PodcastLogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-693 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PodcastLogo-300x300.png\" alt=\"PodcastLogo\" width=\"143\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PodcastLogo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PodcastLogo-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PodcastLogo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PodcastLogo.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a>If you missed any of the Medical Rewind shows with Dr. Rashid A. Buttar and Robert Scott Bell, be sure to go to <a title=\"Medical Rewind\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/show-archives.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.MedicalRewind.com<\/a> to listen to the show replays.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>TO DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/em>: Click on &#8220;DOWNLOAD MP3&#8221; in the player below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedmedicine.com\/site\/archives\/09-05-16.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Medical Rewind 09-05-2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get ready to learn things not traditionally taught to medical doctors!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some of the things you will hear Dr. Buttar and Robert talk about in this week&#8217;s show are:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">When surgeons sit down with cancer patients before operations to talk through how procedures work and what they may accomplish,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/cancer-surgeons-hesitant-tell-patients-odds-cure-160219196.html?ref=gs\"><strong>\u00a0the conversation rarely includes mention of the possibility of a cure, a small study suggests.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\u201cMany physicians avoid discussing cure as they believe that cure cannot be accurately estimated so they may avoid taking up the topic,\u201d Pawlik said by email. \u201cPhysicians may also avoid discussing the possibility of cure because of a belief that patients already have so many other things to think about such as procedure details, risks, getting ready for surgery, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite efforts by the healthcare industry to cut back on low-value services,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2016\/08\/30\/Doctors-wasting-millions-on-low-value-services-study-says\/2961472570586\/\"><strong>\u00a0doctors continue to waste millions of dollars on them and new research suggests it could be linked to specific patients and types of insurance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>About 8 percent of patients received a low-value healthcare service in 2015, with most being white and having more expensive insurance plans, suggesting the perceived overuse of certain procedures and tests has more to do with money than with the best care option for patients, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><strong>Whole brain radiotherapy is of no benefit to people with lung cancer which has spread to the brain,<\/strong>says research in the Lancet.\u00a0A trial of more than 500 patients found that it did not prolong or improve their quality of life any more than other forms of treatment.\u00a0More than 45,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer every year in the UK.\u00a0In a third of cases, the cancer will spread to the brain.\u00a0Secondary brain tumours are usually treated with whole brain radiotherapy along with steroids and other treatments to reduce the side-effects of cancer therapies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Is there life after Trans-D Tropin? <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">YES<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0there is. 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