Cirrhosis nearly doubled among Veterans Affairs patients between 2001 and 2013, while cirrhosis-related mortality rose by about 50% and deaths from hepatocellular carcinoma almost tripled,...
CHICAGO – For most women, there’s little role for MRI in screening for and treating breast cancer
However, there are important exceptions. In an interview at the American College of Surgeons...
The cumulative rates of anal, colorectal, and liver cancers are increasing among HIV-positive patients, mainly because in the antiretroviral era they are living long enough for these malignancies to...
Nivolumab, a programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1)–blocking antibody, has been approved for use in combination with ipilimumab for treating people with BRAF V600 wild-type, unresectable or metastatic...
Among patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), narrow-band imaging colonoscopy with targeted and segmental biopsy specimens was faster, needed fewer specimens, and was as sensitive for detecting...
LONDON – Adult patients with chronic heart failure had an average 51% increased incidence of all forms of cancer, compared with the general population in an analysis of more than 9,000 Danish...
Risk of interval colorectal cancer (CRC) more than doubled when average withdrawal times during routine colonoscopy were less than 6 minutes, investigators reported in the October issue of...
