Melissa Hudson, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (IMAGE)

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Melissa Hudson, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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Supplementing written heart screening guidelines with telephone counseling from specially trained nurses more than doubled the likelihood that adult survivors of childhood cancer received recommended heart checks, according to a study whose first and corresponding author is Melissa Hudson, M.D., a member of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Oncology.

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Seth Dixon, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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