Adult survivors of cancer who were diagnosed between the ages of 11 and 21 years self-reported higher rates of impairment in emotional and neurocognitive outcomes compared with their sibling...
After years of overtreatment for men with low-risk prostate cancer, the practice of active surveillance/watchful waiting increased sharply in 2010 through 2013. At the same time, high-risk disease...
WASHINGTON – Initial misdiagnoses were common and were associated with a later disease stage at diagnosis, in a study of 313 patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Dr. Douglas Swords said at the...
In regions where more women undergo screening mammography, the detection of small cancers increases but mortality doesn’t change significantly, compared with regions where fewer women have the...
Health professionals from two cohort studies who consumed citrus products more than 1.6 times a day had a 36% higher risk of developing cutaneous malignant melanoma, compared with those who consumed...
The St. Jude Lifetime Cohort study found obesity in a higher percentage of adult survivors of childhood cancer than previous studies.
Thirty-six percent of the research project’s 1,996 participants...
The erectile dysfunction agents sildenafil, vardenafil, and tadalafil showed a modest but significant association with increased risk of malignant melanoma in a large Swedish cohort study, but the...
The erectile dysfunction agents sildenafil, vardenafil, and tadalafil showed a modest but significant association with increased risk of malignant melanoma in a large Swedish cohort study, but the...
SEATTLE – Metformin use before surgery for stage I and II non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was associated with improved progression-free survival at 5 years in a <a...
VIENNA – Elderly patients over age 75 with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma derive the same survival benefits from continuous lenalidomide and low-dose dexamethasone as those under 75, according to a...
