Women who recently used oral contraceptives had a 50% greater chance of developing breast cancer than that of women who formerly used or never used oral contraceptives, according to a case-control...
Among adults at average risk for colorectal cancer who undergo screening colonoscopy, the yield of large polyps and tumors varies widely by patient age, sex, race, and ethnicity. This means that an...
GAITHERSBURG, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel agreed that a device that thermally ablates the prostate gland using high-intensity focused ultrasound should not be approved for...
LAS VEGAS – Adult survivors of childhood cancer treated with high-dose cisplatin or high-dose ifosfamide are at markedly increased risk for chronic renal impairment, according to a large Dutch study...
A 55% jump in total expenditures for cancer treatment from 2001 to 2011 appears to reflect an increase in the number of patients, not an increase in the cost of treating those patients, according to...
The U.S. Surgeon General’s office is calling on Americans to do more to help prevent skin cancer, saying that it is a growing public health problem.
The five-point call to action singled out...
Among patients with resectable esophageal adenocarcinoma, tumor stage after completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a much more important predictor of survival than is initial tumor stage at...
The encouraging results of a small study of women with ductal carcinoma in situ comparing oral tamoxifen to a gel formulation of a tamoxifen metabolite support further testing of local transdermal...
Have you met an oncology hospitalist yet? If you haven’t, you probably will soon.
The latest offshoot of hospital medicine aims to take all the strengths of the hospitalist movement – increased...
The absolute 20-year survival benefit from contralateral prophylactic mastectomy stands at less than 1%, regardless of age, estrogen receptor status, and cancer stage, a decision analysis...
