"When you get that initial diagnosis, you just have a lot of questions, " she says.
Mr Owen described the support their family had received ever since the initial diagnosis as "phenomenal".
Should this injury last longer than the initial diagnosis or limit the effectiveness of the ace, Greinke too may face questions about his contract.
Last year it said it would scale up its treatment of drug-resistant TB and eventually test all TB patients for resistance at their initial diagnosis.
At my initial diagnosis I participated in a clinical trial evaluating Herceptin, a so-called personalized medicine (PM) drug targeting a mutation believed to be driving my cancer.
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She added that after her initial diagnosis, none of the hospital staff she came into contact with asked how she was or if she could support herself at home.
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The lymph nodes of the neck are the most common site of diagnosis, the armpit is the second most common area for initial diagnosis, and the groin is third.
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When a close friend who had lost loved ones to cancer visited Ivan after his initial diagnosis, it was Ivan who apologised for being the reason for the hospital visit.
The researchers also found that aspirin reduced the risk of adenocarcinoma with metastasis at initial diagnosis by almost a third (31%), and risk of metastasis on subsequent follow-up in patients without metastasis initially (by 55%), particularly in patients with colorectal cancer(by 74%), and in patients who remained on trial treatment up to or after diagnosis (by 69%).
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The review teams for lung cancer found that of the 31 hospitals they visited, only three met the target of making a decision about initial treatment within four weeks of diagnosis.
After an initial evaluation, your doctor may refer you to a doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that affect the brain and nervous system (neurologist).
Often, a diagnosis "evolves over time" so a patient's problem might not be clear from initial symptoms, Dr Singh says, but that isn't necessarily a diagnostic error.
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