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MEK inhibitors can induce skin eruptions with distinctive duskiness

Posted on: 15/01/2015 - 19:01

Case reports of unusual drug hypersensitivity to MEK inhibitors, involving skin eruptions with distinctive central duskiness, have been described onli... More »

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Postdiagnosis imaging increasing for patients with all stages of thyroid cancer

Posted on: 10/01/2015 - 16:36

Diagnosis of low-risk thyroid cancer has increased, yet researchers have unexpectedly found an increase in the use of postdiagnosis imaging among pati... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

ADT plus RT more effective in reducing prostate cancer mortality than ADT alone in geriatric men

Posted on: 05/01/2015 - 21:00

Among older men with high-risk prostate cancer, receiving androgen-deprivation therapy in combination with radiotherapy reduced cause-specific and all... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Endoscopic mucosal resection proves effective, durable for Barrett’s-associated neoplasia

Posted on: 01/12/2014 - 20:00

Complete endoscopic mucosal resection is an effective, durable, and relatively safe treatment for Barrett’s esophagus with high-grade dysplasia, findings from a series of 107 patients suggest. A...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Medicare beneficiaries in hospice care get better care, have fewer costs

Posted on: 20/11/2014 - 20:47

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries suffering from poor-prognosis cancer who received hospice care were found to have lower rates of hospitalizations, admissions to intensive care units, and...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Colorectal cancer on the increase in young adults

Posted on: 05/11/2014 - 21:00

Colorectal cancer rates have declined in both men and women since 1975, particularly in those over age 75 years, but there has also been a significant increase in the incidence among those aged 20-34...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Colorectal cancer on the increase in young adults

Posted on: 05/11/2014 - 21:00

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Fecal immunochemical testing, colonoscopy found similar for detecting advanced cancers

Posted on: 01/11/2014 - 07:01

Fecal immunochemical testing with a low hemoglobin threshold for colonoscopy resembled one-time, primary colonoscopy for detecting advanced neoplasias in the first-degree relatives of colorectal...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Fecal immunochemical testing, colonoscopy found similar for detecting advanced cancers

Posted on: 01/11/2014 - 07:01

Fecal immunochemical testing with a low hemoglobin threshold for colonoscopy resembled one-time, primary colonoscopy for detecting advanced neoplasias in the first-degree relatives of colorectal...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Thiopurine for IBD linked to almost sixfold increase in lymphoma risk

Posted on: 01/11/2014 - 04:01

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease who took thiopurines for at least a year had an almost sixfold greater rate of lymphoma than did the general population, researchers reported in the November...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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