Patients with Barrett’s esophagus have about a 0.2% annual chance of developing esophageal adenocarcinoma in the 5 years after initial diagnosis, but the likelihood then rises so that about 9% of all...
Men with favorable-risk prostate cancer have a very low risk of disease progression to a lethal phenotype, and they should be encouraged to consider surveillance rather than curative intervention,...
Losing weight and taking aspirin protect people who are genetically predisposed to colorectal cancer from developing the disease, according to a randomized study of 937 Lynch syndrome patients...
Vemurafenib showed promising activity against several nonmelanoma cancers carrying BRAF V600 mutations in a preliminary phase II study reported online Aug. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine....
For aggressive endometrial cancer subtypes, Non-Hispanic black women had mortality rates more than 1.5-fold higher than those of non-Hispanic white women diagnosed with the same subtype of...
WASHINGTON – Cancer survivors are almost twice as likely to be taking medication for anxiety, depression, or both, compared with people who have never had cancer, according to investigators from the...
A group-based behavioral weight loss program supplemented with personal contact and support was effective in helping overweight or obese breast cancer survivors lose a clinically meaningful amount of...
SEATTLE – “Biomarkers have a promising role in the early detection and risk stratification of colonic neoplasia,” Dr. Hemant K. Roy said at a joint meeting by Global Biomarkers Consortium and World...
Childhood cancer survivors are at an increased risk for developing an intestinal obstruction requiring surgery (IOS) 5 or more years after the initial cancer diagnosis, according to a study based on...
The increased risk of malignancy following childhood cancer persists past the age of 40 years, according to an analysis of 3,171 members of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study published online Aug....
