WASHINGTON – Exercise can have significant and clinically important mental health benefits for both cancer patients and their caregivers, investigators report.
Among patients with cancer and...
Clinical outcomes of elderly patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation (nCRT) for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) were similar enough to outcomes of younger patients that doctors may...
WASHINGTON – Treating depression in cancer patients has the potential to simultaneously improve the patients’ mental health while reducing health care costs, investigators say.
Patients with cancer...
SEATTLE – Recent developments in the field of melanoma may help clinicians refine their approach to this disease, according to Dr. Suraj S. Venna, a dermatologist and medical director of the Inova...
Patients with testicular nonseminoma who undergo chemotherapy experience a nearly fivefold increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in the year following diagnosis, according to...
Survivors of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma are twice as likely to develop melanoma as are survivors of other types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a report published...
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is common in cancer patients with brain metastases but therapeutic anticoagulation does not increase the risk for intracranial hemorrhage, according to new data.
In a...
Clinicians and researchers must get better at identifying Lynch syndrome because the diagnosis is so often missed, according to new American Gastroenterological Association clinical guidelines for...
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has issued updated guidelines on using breast tumor biomarker assays to help guide or influence decisions on systemic therapy in women with metastatic breast...
Patients with human papillomavirus–related oropharyngeal carcinoma (HPV-OPC) who had human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) detected in oral rinses both at diagnosis and at any time after treatment...
