IMN || Oncology & Hematology

Panel recommends against low-dose CT for lung cancer in Medicare patients

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 14:45

Evidence is insufficient to support lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography in the Medicare population, members of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Vitamin D deficiency predicts aggressive prostate cancer

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

Among African American men with abnormal prostate-specific antigen levels or abnormal findings on digital rectal examination of the prostate, biopsies are more likely to detect prostate cancer in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: HPV testing predicted to displace most Pap smears

Posted on: 30/04/2014 - 15:35

CHICAGO – Dr. Laurie J. McKenzie, who is a member of the ACOG Committee on the Scientific Program and the medical faculties of the University of Texas and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: HPV testing predicted to displace most Pap smears

Posted on: 30/04/2014 - 15:35

CHICAGO – Dr. Laurie J. McKenzie, who is a member of the ACOG Committee on the Scientific Program and the medical faculties of the University of Texas and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Approval of mercaptopurine suspension will facilitate pediatric dosing

Posted on: 29/04/2014 - 18:30

More than 60 years after it first became available as a 50-mg tablet, an oral suspension formulation of mercaptopurine has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The oral suspension...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Chronic kidney disease may raise cancer risk

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 16:00

LAS VEGAS – Patients with chronic kidney disease appear to be at increased risk for cancer, a study showed. A retrospective analysis of data on 31,896 participants in <link...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

First ASCO survivor care guidelines tackle fatigue, anxiety/depression, neuropathy

Posted on: 14/04/2014 - 21:00

The American Society of Clinical Oncology has issued three new practice guidelines related to fatigue; anxiety and depression; and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in patients with...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Younger men with goiter at higher risk for thyroid cancers

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 16:05

PHOENIX – More than one-fourth of men under age 50 undergoing surgery for benign goiter were found to have thyroid cancers, based on

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Physician’s adenoma detection rate predicts patient’s cancer risk

Posted on: 02/04/2014 - 22:00

A physician’s adenoma detection rate – the proportion of screening colonoscopies he or she performs that detect at least one histologically confirmed colorectal adenoma or adenocarcinoma – strongly...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Physician’s adenoma detection rate predicts patient’s cancer risk

Posted on: 02/04/2014 - 22:00

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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