Items Tagged ‘endometrial cancer’
September 21, 2017
Game Changers: Five Innovative Tests for Cancer Detection
Finding cancer as early as possible is critical to saving lives. Mayo Clinic is creating a new era in health care with tests that make early and accurate detection of common cancers easy. Many are minimally invasive, convenient, cost-effective and widely available, removing the barriers that prevent people from getting treatment. Breast cancer can’t hide […]
Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer prevention, colon cancer, David Ahlquist, Deborah Rhodes, endometrial cancer, esophageal cancer, Eugene Kwon, Jamie Bakkum-Gamez, Prasad Iyer, prostate cancer
April 20, 2017
Economies of scale: volume in health care
The concept is simple, if you perform the same procedure over and over; day in and day out, you tend to do it better, quicker, and safer than your counterpart who has only done it a few times, or infrequently. It’s referred to in other lines of work as “economies of scale.” The application of […]
Tags: cancer, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, endometrial cancer, Jeffrey Karnes, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars, minimally invasive surgery, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, prostate cancer, Ronald Go, Sean Dowdy