ASH Clinical News March 2015
High-Cost and High-Value: Are Expensive Cancer Drugs Worth it? ... p. 18
Your source for worldwide news and
perspectives on hematology/oncology
march 2015
volume 01 | number 03
CONTENTS
5… Editor's Corner
A Few of My Least
Favorite Things
Defending
9… Pulling Back the Curtain
Beverly Mitchell on
Knowing Your Passion
Your
11… Hematology Link
Managing High Blood
Pressure
B:10.75”
14… Advanced Practice
Perspectives
Caregivers and
Chronic Disease
39… How I Teach
Alison Loren
on Mentoring
50… PASHions
T:10.5”
S:10”
Coming
s
Guy Young:
Hematologist, Novelist
DEPARTMENTS
5 UP FRONT
15 CLINICAL NEWS
8 TRAINING AND EDUCATION
3
43 FEATURES
Spleen
Can Rituximab
Replace Splenectomy
for ITP Patients?
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Available Spring 2015
50 BACK OF THE BOOK
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March 2015
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