FPN || Oncology

ASCO and AACR call for stronger e-cigarette regulation

Posted on: 14/08/2014 - 22:05

A Food and Drug Administration proposal to regulate e-cigarettes does not go far enough, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Association for Cancer Research say. The two...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening reduces colorectal cancer, mortality

Posted on: 12/08/2014 - 21:00

One-time-only screening for colorectal cancer using flexible sigmoidoscopy reduced colorectal cancer incidence by 20% and colorectal cancer–specific mortality by 27% in a Norwegian study involving...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening reduces colorectal cancer, mortality

Posted on: 12/08/2014 - 21:00

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Benefits outweigh harms of aspirin therapy

Posted on: 12/08/2014 - 17:45

Prophylactic aspirin therapy of at least 5 years’ duration has a favorable benefit-harm profile, primarily because of its effectiveness in preventing colorectal and other cancers, according to a...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Benefits outweigh harms of aspirin therapy

Posted on: 12/08/2014 - 17:45

Prophylactic aspirin therapy of at least 5 years’ duration has a favorable benefit-harm profile, primarily because of its effectiveness in preventing colorectal and other cancers, according to a...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Vary CRC screening by age, sex, race, ethnicity?

Posted on: 01/08/2014 - 05:01

Among adults at average risk for colorectal cancer who undergo screening colonoscopy, the yield of large polyps and tumors varies widely by patient age, sex, race, and ethnicity. This means that an...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Vary CRC screening by age, sex, race, ethnicity?

Posted on: 01/08/2014 - 05:01

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

FDA panel recommends against approval of ultrasound therapy for early prostate cancer

Posted on: 31/07/2014 - 16:30

GAITHERSBURG, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel agreed that a device that thermally ablates the prostate gland using high-intensity focused ultrasound should not be approved for...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Cancer spending: More patients, not more expensive patients

Posted on: 30/07/2014 - 16:50

A 55% jump in total expenditures for cancer treatment from 2001 to 2011 appears to reflect an increase in the number of patients, not an increase in the cost of treating those patients, according to...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Early results show promise of topical tamoxifen for women with DCIS

Posted on: 21/07/2014 - 18:30

The encouraging results of a small study of women with ductal carcinoma in situ comparing oral tamoxifen to a gel formulation of a tamoxifen metabolite support further testing of local transdermal...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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