FPN || Oncology

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

Oncology hospitalist field is small, but growing

Posted on: 17/07/2014 - 21:10

Have you met an oncology hospitalist yet? If you haven’t, you probably will soon. The latest offshoot of hospital medicine aims to take all the strengths of the hospitalist movement – increased...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Specialists drive overtreatment of low-risk prostate cancer

Posted on: 14/07/2014 - 21:00

Low-risk prostate cancer in older men is still being overtreated, according to two separate studies that examined the issue from different perspectives, both of which were published online July 14 in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

TEXT/SOFT provide practice-changing results for premenopausal breast cancer

Posted on: 26/06/2014 - 20:10

CHICAGO – Adjuvant exemestane is more effective at preventing recurrence than tamoxifen is when either is given with ovarian function suppression in premenopausal women with hormone-sensitive breast...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

TEXT/SOFT provide practice-changing results for premenopausal breast cancer

Posted on: 26/06/2014 - 20:10

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Phone-based intervention helped breast cancer patients lose weight, but key question remains

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 22:20

A telephone-based lifestyle intervention can have a significant effect on weight loss in overweight breast cancer survivors, according to a study that also highlights the dilemmas of funding large...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Phone-based intervention helped breast cancer patients lose weight, but key question remains

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 22:20

A telephone-based lifestyle intervention can have a significant effect on weight loss in overweight breast cancer survivors, according to a study that also highlights the dilemmas of funding large...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Intervention ups annual FOBT screening to 82%

Posted on: 16/06/2014 - 21:00

An inexpensive telephone intervention raised the rate of annual colorectal cancer screening using fecal occult blood testing to 82% in an underserved population at particular risk for poor health,...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Intervention ups annual FOBT screening to 82%

Posted on: 16/06/2014 - 21:00

An inexpensive telephone intervention raised the rate of annual colorectal cancer screening using fecal occult blood testing to 82% in an underserved population at particular risk for poor health,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Cancer risk elevated before and 90 days after diabetes diagnosis

Posted on: 16/06/2014 - 17:10

SAN FRANCISCO – Among diabetes patients, the risk of cancer was significantly increased before diagnosis and 3 months after diabetes diagnosis, but not beyond that time point, results from a...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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