Spit Test to Monitor for Oral Cancer

Image courtesy of marin at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net HPV oral cancer is an increasingly common cancer afflicting heterosexual individuals. The main way of diagnosing is by biopsy after an abnormal finding on oral examination . The main way of determining whether the cancer has come back after treatment is also by regular oral examinations. However, Johns Hopkins researchers may have developed a "spit" test that can detect whether oral cancer may have recurred after treatment befor…

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Do Nosebleeds Cause Stool Blood Tests to Become Positive?

As a general rule, an ordinary nosebleed will not cause a screening stool blood test  (hemoccult or guaiac) to come back positive. However, if the nosebleed is bad enough to consider going to the emergency room... and you are swallowing a lot of it... only than will it be likely that such stool tests will come back positive for blood. To be precise, such stool tests turn positive only if there's at least 2+ teaspoons of blood leaking into the digestive system everyday (or swallowed…

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Patient Experience Just As Important As Clinical Expertise

I read with great interest an article in the New York Times " How Does Your Hospital Room Make You Feel? " regarding how a patient room... how a hospital appears... private rooms... may play just as important a role in where a patient goes for treatment as the clinical expertise of its doctors. Indeed, amenities are a critical part of the patient experience and possibly even a more valuable component of patient-centered care as reported in the New England Journal of Medicine . A p…

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Positive Patient Feedback

Dr. Chang received a bonsai tree from Fauquier Hospital for having received positive patient feedback for the past 4 consecutive quarters. How nice! Read other patient testimonies here .

9/17/2010 0

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