SEATTLE – Research in colorectal cancer should focus on part on a handful of high-priority needs for prognostic and predictive biomarkers, according to <a...
SAN FRANCISCO – With multiple therapies and refinements in diagnostic and staging criteria, risk stratification, and transplantation, “we have made dramatic improvements in survival” for malignant...
Analysis of cancer registry data from Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden over more than 60 years found that survivors of childhood cancer had a 1.4-fold higher risk of autoimmune disease compared with...
BOSTON – An experimental agent that targets the byproducts of gene fusions has shown surprising clinical activity against notoriously treatment-refractory cancers in early results from a phase I...
CHICAGO – Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy is more expensive and provides a lower quality of life than unilateral mastectomy in younger women with sporadic breast cancer, a cost-effectiveness...
SAN FRANCISCO – Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in genes for interleukin 10 and human leukocyte antigen are significantly associated with both systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and diffuse large...
CHICAGO – Access to equal care decreases but does not eliminate the survival disparities between black and white patients with rectal cancer, according to investigators from the University of...
BOSTON– Colorectal cancers arising in the hindgut are more likely to have loss or mutation of the transcription factor SMAD4 than are tumors arising in the proximal two-thirds of the colon, and that...
COPENHAGEN – Patients with venous leg ulcers have an increased risk of occult cancer – especially hematologic and immune-related malignancies, according to a Danish nationwide cohort study.
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It may have come as a surprise to the approximately 60% of Americans who consume red or processed meat that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a part of the World Health...
