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Kazuaki Takabe, MD, PhD, FACS
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Roswell Park-Led Team Creates TILs-Based Scoring Tool That Correlates with Breast Cancer Survival

A team at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered a link between survival and the number of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in the tumors of breast cancer patients. Kazuaki Takabe, MD, PhD, FACS, Clinical Chief of Breast Surgery, Breast Program Leader and Breast Disease Site Leader at Roswell Park, served as principal investigator of the new study published in Annals of Surgery. Rongrong Wu, MD, and Masanori Oshi, MD, of the Department of Surgical Oncology at Roswell Park were first authors of the study, which was completed in collaboration with colleagues in Japan.
A intravenous PICC line is placed in a person's arm
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What is a PICC line?

If you recently learned that your cancer treatment requires the placement of a PICC line, you may be scared because you don’t know what to expect.
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When cancer takes your hair

It's not uncommon to feel apprehension, sadness or a loss of privacy before, during and after chemotherapy-related alopecia. In fact, for both men and women, hair loss is often the most common and distressing adverse effect of chemotherapy.
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