SAN FRANCISCO – Rheumatoid arthritis conferred a doubling of the risk of lymphoma when compared against the general population in a large Swedish registry study, regardless of the patients’...
BOSTON – Treatment of pneumonitis associated with the PD-1 axis checkpoint inhibitors requires close monitoring of patients and rapid clinical response, an oncologist advised.
“We need to be...
Survivors of cancer diagnosed at early ages, compared with healthy controls, face higher risk of chronic medical problems, according to two independent studies.
Survivors of adolescent and young...
Two Food and Drug Administration advisory panels voted 18-6 against use of Mycobacterium phlei cell wall-nucleic acid complex (MCNA), an intravesical drug being evaluated for the treatment of...
BOSTON– Immune-related adverse events associated with checkpoint inhibitor therapy are generally mild to moderate and transient, but some less common side effects can be serious or even fatal,...
The rate of routine prostate-specific antigen screening among men aged 50 years and older declined 18% during the first year after the 2012 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation against...
SAN FRANCISCO – The PALBI liver function score measuring platelet count, albumin, and bilirubin was more effective than Child-Pugh score at predicting survival in hepatocellular carcinoma...
CHICAGO – Watchful waiting with careful surveillance may become an option for the majority of locally advanced rectal cancer patients who have a complete clinical response to neoadjuvant therapy,...
Patients with head and neck cancer had a threefold higher risk of suicide, compared with the general population, with higher rates among male patients and those with later-stage disease, according to...
Several successive genetic alterations have been identified that underlie the progression of melanoma from benign nevus to invasive malignancy, with different melanoma subtypes showing distinct...
