Recently diagnosed cancer patients often decide on their own to visit hospital emergency departments for symptoms that don’t warrant that type of care, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.
Patients can die if they take certain previously prescribed beta-blockers during a hematopoietic cell transplant due to suppressed signals from nerves that promote bone marrow regeneration, according to scientists at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, published in Cancer Discovery, builds upon previous CRI research by analyzing retrospective patient data to correlate beta-blocker use with significantly worse patient outcomes.
