BRUSSELS – Cancer survivorship planning in the United Kingdom is ahead of the United States and the rest of Europe with the recent rollout of a model care plan for cancer patients, along with a guide...
The incidence of thyroid cancer has nearly tripled in the United States since the 1970s. However, this is mainly an epidemic of diagnosis, researchers reported.
Small papillary cancers are not...
Annual mammography in women aged 40 to 59 years was no more effective than was physical examination or usual care for reducing breast cancer mortality when adjuvant therapy for breast cancer is...
A warning about cases of pancytopenia linked to the use of the oral hepatitis C antiviral drug boceprevir has been added to the drug’s label, the Food and Drug Administration has announced.
There...
Montana is expected to have the highest rate of prostate cancer deaths in the United States for 2014, and it will be more than twice as high as that of Texas, which should have the lowest rate, the...
Among early-stage breast cancer patients who carry BRCA mutations, prophylactic mastectomy of the contralateral breast appears to reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer within 20 years by 48%,...
The use of beta-blockers in men with metastatic and high-risk prostate cancer was associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer–specific mortality independent of statin or acetylsalicylic acid...
Fecal immunochemical tests have an overall diagnostic accuracy of 95% for the detection of colorectal cancer, according to the results of a meta-analysis just published in the Annals of Internal...
SAN DIEGO – Results from studies conducted to date indicate that anti-PD-L1 therapy is well tolerated in patients with non–small cell lung cancer, with rapid response rates.
In fact, responses are...
