IMN || Oncology

Gut bacteria populations may predict colon cancers

Posted on: 11/08/2014 - 18:50

The addition of a gut microbiome analysis to fecal occult blood testing improved the accuracy of standard colorectal cancer screening by more than 50-fold. The expanded analysis not only...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Drug compounding law presents challenges, opportunities for doctors

Posted on: 07/08/2014 - 21:25

Physicians can reduce liability and mitigate the risk of poor-quality drugs by taking advantage of a new federal law that tightens oversight on drug compounding facilities. The ongoing...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

FDA panel recommends against approval of ultrasound therapy for early prostate cancer

Posted on: 31/07/2014 - 16:30

GAITHERSBURG, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel agreed that a device that thermally ablates the prostate gland using high-intensity focused ultrasound should not be approved for...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Look for nephrotoxicity in adult survivors of childhood cancer

Posted on: 30/07/2014 - 21:20

LAS VEGAS – Adult survivors of childhood cancer treated with high-dose cisplatin or high-dose ifosfamide are at markedly increased risk for chronic renal impairment, according to a large Dutch study...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Cancer spending: More patients, not more expensive patients

Posted on: 30/07/2014 - 16:50

A 55% jump in total expenditures for cancer treatment from 2001 to 2011 appears to reflect an increase in the number of patients, not an increase in the cost of treating those patients, according to...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Stage esophageal cancer after neoadjuvant chemo

Posted on: 28/07/2014 - 21:00

Among patients with resectable esophageal adenocarcinoma, tumor stage after completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a much more important predictor of survival than is initial tumor stage at...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Stage esophageal cancer after neoadjuvant chemo

Posted on: 28/07/2014 - 21:00

Among patients with resectable esophageal adenocarcinoma, tumor stage after completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a much more important predictor of survival than is initial tumor stage at...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Oncology hospitalist field is small, but growing

Posted on: 17/07/2014 - 21:10

Have you met an oncology hospitalist yet? If you haven’t, you probably will soon. The latest offshoot of hospital medicine aims to take all the strengths of the hospitalist movement – increased...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Specialists drive overtreatment of low-risk prostate cancer

Posted on: 14/07/2014 - 21:00

Low-risk prostate cancer in older men is still being overtreated, according to two separate studies that examined the issue from different perspectives, both of which were published online July 14 in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Hospital use of minimally invasive surgery shows disparity in surgical care nationwide

Posted on: 14/07/2014 - 18:55

The use of minimally invasive surgery for appendectomy, colectomy, hysterectomy, and lung lobectomy varies widely in the United States, even though the complication rates were lower from each...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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