IMN || Oncology

Cancer patients with incidental VTE have high risk of recurrent thrombi

Posted on: 09/12/2014 - 17:15

SAN FRANCISCO – Unless there is a clear contraindication to anticoagulation therapy, cancer patients who have an incidental pulmonary embolism discovered during imaging studies should receive chronic...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

More activity, less television prolongs life in colorectal Ca

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

More exercise and less television were both associated with decreased all-cause mortality among older patients with colorectal cancer in a large, prospective cohort study, according to a report...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

More activity, less television prolongs life in colorectal Ca

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

More exercise and less television were both associated with decreased all-cause mortality among older patients with colorectal cancer in a large, prospective cohort study, according to a report...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Game-changing study could end exclusion for HIV-related lymphomas

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 20:17

SAN FRANCISCO – Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation should be offered to patients with HIV-related lymphomas and treatment-responsive HIV infection, results from a new study...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Brentuximab changes landscape for post-transplant Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients

Posted on: 07/12/2014 - 17:32

SAN FRANCISCO – Early post-transplant brentuximab vedotin dramatically slows Hodgkin’s lymphoma progression in patients at high risk for relapse or progression, the phase III AETHERA study...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

'Lottery' incentive increases compliance with FOBT

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 22:00

A financial incentive – offering patients a 10% chance of winning a $50 lottery if they completed a fecal occult blood test – improved compliance with the colorectal cancer screen by approximately...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

'Lottery' incentive increases compliance with FOBT

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 22:00

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

PC providers have knowledge gaps in lung cancer screening

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 18:13

CHICAGO – Nearly one-fourth of primary care providers were unaware of current lung cancer screening guidelines in a survey of 212 PC providers in North Carolina, a state with one of the nation’s...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Has advertising for prostate cancer treatment gone too far?

Posted on: 14/11/2014 - 16:43

Dr. Benjamin Davies has responded to advertising claims that recently ran in the Sunday New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker with an article in Forbes entitled “Prostate Cancer Advertising:...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Salpingectomy associated with reduced ovarian cancer risk

Posted on: 12/11/2014 - 19:47

MELBOURNE – Surgical removal of the fallopian tubes could be a viable option for reducing the risk of ovarian cancer in high-risk women, a speaker said at the biennial meeting of the International...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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