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Obesity, genetic variations found in adult survivors of childhood cancer

Posted on: 27/06/2015 - 16:08

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...

Field of Interest: Oncology

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Erectile dysfunction meds’ link to melanoma not causal

Posted on: 27/06/2015 - 15:19

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...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Invasive approaches ‘overused’ for evaluating pulmonary nodules

Posted on: 25/06/2015 - 22:44

One in four intermediate-sized (8-20 mm) pulmonary nodules were found to be malignant, based on results from a retrospective study of 377 patients seen in 18 community pulmonology...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Adenoma detection rates affect CRC rates, mortality

Posted on: 16/06/2015 - 16:00

In an average-risk population, screening colonoscopies yield different incidences of colorectal cancer and different cancer-related mortality, depending on the operators’ adenoma detection rates,...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Cigarettes account for slightly under half of smoking-related cancer deaths

Posted on: 15/06/2015 - 16:00

Of the nearly 346,000 U.S. deaths caused by smoking-related cancers in 2011, about 48.5% were attributable to cigarette smoking, according to a research letter published online June 15 in JAMA...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

ICOO: Opioid self-dosing falls short of pain control

Posted on: 10/06/2015 - 18:14

BOSTON – Many cancer patients do not pursue or at least do not achieve complete freedom from pain when permitted control over their opioid dose, according to a comprehensive analysis of published...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Prostate cancer screening for men over 50 has declined

Posted on: 08/06/2015 - 21:00

Subsequent to the 2012 U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommendation discouraging prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening, prostate cancer screening significantly declined among men...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Dr. William J. Gradishar provides take-home messages from ASCO 2015

Posted on: 04/06/2015 - 16:41

CHICAGO – Dr. William J. Gradishar says bevacizumab may not be dead, T-DM1 is definitely not dead, and the jury is still out on bisphosphonates preventing recurrence, based on presentations at the...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

AATS: No postpneumonectomy survival benefit in adding radiation to chemotherapy for NSCLC

Posted on: 01/06/2015 - 21:57

SEATTLE – Adding radiotherapy to neoadjuvant chemotherapy does not improve long-term survival after pneumonectomy for non–small cell lung cancer, according to a Turkish <a...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

CheckMate 067 ends ipilimumab’s reign in first-line metastatic melanoma

Posted on: 01/06/2015 - 18:29

CHICAGO – Nivolumab and nivolumab plus ipilimumab are superior to ipilimumab alone in first-line metastatic melanoma, results from the phase III CheckMate 067 study suggest. After a minimum of 9...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Obesity, genetic variations found in adult survivors of childhood cancer

Erectile dysfunction meds’ link to melanoma not causal

Invasive approaches ‘overused’ for evaluating pulmonary nodules

Adenoma detection rates affect CRC rates, mortality

Cigarettes account for slightly under half of smoking-related cancer deaths

ICOO: Opioid self-dosing falls short of pain control

Prostate cancer screening for men over 50 has declined

VIDEO: Dr. William J. Gradishar provides take-home messages from ASCO 2015

AATS: No postpneumonectomy survival benefit in adding radiation to chemotherapy for NSCLC

CheckMate 067 ends ipilimumab’s reign in first-line metastatic melanoma

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