When all evidence of cancer disappeared from Catherine Spina’s patient after radiation of a single metastasis, she became convinced that radiotherapy may be key to a new treatment approach.
“We saw that during periods of higher temperatures, there was a corresponding increase in hospital visits related to alcohol and substance use,” said first study author Robbie Parks.
“This is the first study to really look across all of the health care workers,” said Mark Olfson, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and the paper’s lead author.
“This is some validation for the community that this isn’t just a bunch of people who are complaining a lot,” said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an infectious disease expert at Columbia University.
Members of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center community joined hundreds of advocates from across the nation in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14 to advocate for medical research.
“You want to be cautious,” said Matthew Harms, who runs the ALS Families Project at Columbia, adding that he agrees there needs to be more advocacy and research for carriers.
