LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The tyrosine kinase inhibitor cabozantinib significantly extended overall survival for patients with RET-M918T–positive medullary thyroid cancer.
The placebo-controlled EXAM...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. – Obesity was strongly associated with more aggressive papillary thyroid carcinoma features, but not with a greater likelihood of disease recurrence in a review of nearly 7,300...
The majority of medical malpractice lawsuits involving breast cancer result from delayed-diagnosis allegations, but a significant portion also stem from alleged poor management of breast cancer...
COPENHAGEN – Twice-yearly prophylactic photodynamic therapy for primary prevention of actinic keratoses and squamous cell carcinomas is a novel and effective strategy that addresses the problem of...
VIENNA – Postdiagnosis aspirin use nearly doubled survival in patients with gastrointestinal cancers in a large study from the Netherlands.
After 5 years, 75% of daily low-dose–aspirin users were...
Daily vitamin D and calcium supplements, taken alone or in combination, failed to reduce the risk of recurrent colorectal adenomas in middle-aged adults, according to a study published online Oct. 14...
CHICAGO – The uptake of tomosynthesis has been fairly brisk among the nation’s breast cancer screening centers.
There are good reasons for that. In an interview at the annual clinical congress of...
CHICAGO – Immediate breast reconstruction did not dramatically increase adverse outcomes in women undergoing mastectomy, a SCOAP database analysis found.
The...
Officials at the National Institutes of Health are taking a closer look at the role that breast density plays in the development of breast cancer.
As part of the agency’s Breast Cancer and the...
Marijuana use does not seem to be a risk factor for head and neck cancer (HNC) suggests a meta-analysis including nine case-control studies.
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