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...
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...
Should Medicare pay for low-dose computed tomography to screen certain patients for lung cancer? A panel of expert advisers will meet April 30 to review the evidence and make a recommendation.
The...
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...
SAN DIEGO – The country’s leading regulatory agency has as many questions about the potential health effects of electronic cigarettes as concerned clinicians do.
According to Mitchell Zeller, J.D.,...
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...
DENVER – As many as 25% of Medicare patients with melanoma will experience treatment delays of up to 1.5 months, and 18% may have treatment delays as long as 3 months after a lesion is biopsied,...
Daily tadalafil failed to preserve erectile function among men undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer, according to investigators. The report was published online April 1 in JAMA.
In what they...
Aspirin therapy improves survival in patients whose colon cancers express HLA class 1 antigen, but not in those whose tumors have lost that expression, investigators reported online March 31 in JAMA...
