COVER FE ATURE
BUILDING BETTER POSTOPERATIVE PATHWAYS 10
Penn State Hea lth helps develop best practices for
postsurgica l care.
FE ATURES
MULTIPARAMETRIC MRI IMPROVES PROSTATE
CANCER DETECTION AND TREATMENT 06
With this tool, the urolog y team at Penn State Hea lth can
detect prostate cancer earlier than with standard imaging.
ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE FOR PROSTATE CANCER
AT PENN STATE HEALTH 08
Shared decision-ma king is key to the success of this approach,
which a llows certain patients to avoid invasive treatment
while monitoring their cancer carefully.
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SPECIAL CLINICAL SECTION: ONCOLOGY
IS THE CAR T-CELL REVOLUTION HERE? 13
Generic CA R T-cell therapy may be on the horizon, speeding
times to treatment.
COULD AN EARLY DETECTION BLOOD TEST
SIGNAL A SEISMIC SHIFT FOR CANCER
SCREENING? 14
A test known as Ga lleri can detect more than 50 cancer types
with 93% accuracy — a ll from a blood sample.
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