SAN FRANCISCO – Early post-transplant brentuximab vedotin dramatically slows Hodgkin’s lymphoma progression in patients at high risk for relapse or progression, the phase III AETHERA study...
A study of hypogonadal men undergoing testosterone therapy has found a lower rate of prostate cancer than previously recorded in screening studies, suggesting the therapy does not increase prostate...
The rate of prescribing bisphosphonates to protect the bone health of prostate cancer patients taking androgen deprivation therapy is extremely low in Ontario, even among those at high risk of...
Criteria recently proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the coverage of lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography may not be the most efficient way to screen...
Breast cancer outcomes have improved significantly over the past 3 decades, with major gains in relapse-free survival and declines in mortality for all subtypes but particularly HER-2 positive breast...
MELBOURNE – Bariatric surgery may provide a useful opportunity to screen morbidly obese women for endometrial cancer, according to the presenter of a study showing a 15% prevalence of occult...
CORONADO, CALIF. – The use of radioactive iodine in patients with papillary thyroid cancer showed a small but statistically significant survival benefit for all tumor size categories, a long-term...
Significant increases in the mastectomy rate among women with early breast cancer who were candidates for breast conservation surgery during a recent 14-year period in the United States were...
CORONADO, CALIF. – Patients with differentiated thyroid cancer who were younger than age 45 years were more likely to undergo total or near-total thyroidectomy and to receive radioactive iodine,...
A financial incentive – offering patients a 10% chance of winning a $50 lottery if they completed a fecal occult blood test – improved compliance with the colorectal cancer screen by approximately...
