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Low-stage colon cancers need to be followed post surgery for recurrence

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 19:44

SAN FRANCISCO – Patients with stage I colorectal cancer should be followed as closely as patients with higher-stage primary tumors after resection, according to a prospective 6-year surveillance...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Low-stage colon cancers need to be followed post surgery for recurrence

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 19:44

SAN FRANCISCO – Patients with stage I colorectal cancer should be followed as closely as patients with higher-stage primary tumors after resection, according to a prospective 6-year surveillance...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

PC providers have knowledge gaps in lung cancer screening

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 18:13

CHICAGO – Nearly one-fourth of primary care providers were unaware of current lung cancer screening guidelines in a survey of 212 PC providers in North Carolina, a state with one of the nation’s...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Has advertising for prostate cancer treatment gone too far?

Posted on: 14/11/2014 - 16:43

Dr. Benjamin Davies has responded to advertising claims that recently ran in the Sunday New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker with an article in Forbes entitled “Prostate Cancer Advertising:...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Salpingectomy associated with reduced ovarian cancer risk

Posted on: 12/11/2014 - 19:47

MELBOURNE – Surgical removal of the fallopian tubes could be a viable option for reducing the risk of ovarian cancer in high-risk women, a speaker said at the biennial meeting of the International...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Salpingectomy associated with reduced ovarian cancer risk

Posted on: 12/11/2014 - 19:47

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Skin cancer treatment costs skyrocket over past decade

Posted on: 12/11/2014 - 14:13

The average annual cost for skin cancer treatment more than doubled from 2002 to 2011, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. From 2002 to 2006, the average annual skin...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

FDA panel votes against panobinostat as add-on therapy for multiple myeloma

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 11:34

SILVER SPRING, MD. – The majority of a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel agreed that the risk-benefit profile of panobinostat as add-on treatment to bortezomib and dexamethasone did not...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

‘Co-rounding’ decreases patient length of stay

Posted on: 06/11/2014 - 19:14

BOSTON – When a palliative care oncologist partners with a medical oncologist on everyday rounds and in everyday practice on an inpatient floor, both patients and the clinicians who provide their...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

CDC: More can be done to prevent cervical cancer fatalities

Posted on: 05/11/2014 - 19:54

Close to 8 million women aged 21-65 years were not screened for cervical cancer in the past 5 years even though the disease claims nearly 4,000 lives per year, according to 2012 data, the Centers for...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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