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Medscape Features Slideshows, May 2012
ACOG Ovarian Cancer Survivors Experience Long-Term Distress A survey from the University of Michigan shows that ovarian cancer survivors experience long-term fears and undiagnosed anxiety about recurrence.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
ICE-ECE PCOS Not Linked to Increased Risk for Endometrial Cancer Prevalence of endometrial cancer in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome is not increased compared with rates in the general population.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
AUA Radium-223 Prolongs Survival in CRPC Radium-223 chloride significantly prolonged overall survival in patients with bone metastases in castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to a phase 3 study.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
Bomber Dies, Nearly 3 Years After Terminal Prostate Cancer Released on compassionate grounds, as he was supposedly close to death from terminal prostate cancer, the Lockerbie bomber lived for nearly 3 years.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
DDW Patients Prefer Colonoscopy Over CT Colonography for Cancer Lack of sedation with 'virtual colonoscopy' is the main reason.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
ESTRO Blood Biomarkers Could Personalize Cancer Treatment Three markers predict response to chemoradiation.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
Guidelines Now Available for CT Lung Cancer Screening Joint recommendations from ACCP and ASCO recommend low-dose computed tomography (CT) scanning for individuals at high risk of developing lung cancer.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
AUA Microscopic Hematuria Not Predictive of Cancer In patients with asymptomatic microscopic hematuria, the degree of hematuria was not predictive of urinary tract cancer, according to a prospective study.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
AUA Adrenalectomy Plus Nephrectomy Linked to Reduced Survival Ipsilateral adrenalectomy at the time of radical nephrectomy is associated with decreased overall survival, according to a new population-based study.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
E-Prescribing Growth Could Bode Well for Med Adherence When physicians e-prescribe, the percentage of patients who actually pick up their medications at the pharmacy increases 10%, according to a pharmacy industry group that promotes the technology.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
FDG-PET Contributes to Staging of Localized Gastric Cancer Preoperative 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) can significantly contribute to staging of locally advanced gastric cancer.
Reuters Health Information, May 2012
Metformin Lowers Breast Cancer Tumor Markers in Some Women Italian investigators say metformin may lower the levels of Ki-67, a breast cancer tumor marker, in women with insulin resistance.
Reuters Health Information, May 2012
Fewer Girls Completing All Three HPV Shots: Study Among girls and women who get their first human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine, the percent who complete all three doses is dropping, according to a new study.
Reuters Health Information, May 2012
Study Unpicks Gene Changes Behind Breast Cancer Scientists have mapped the complete genetic codes of 21 breast cancers and catalogued mutations that accumulate in breast cells, raising hopes that the disease may be spotted earlier and treated more effectively.
Reuters Health Information, May 2012
Physicians Get Shrinking Slice of Healthcare Spending For a privately insured family of 4, spending increased 5% for physician services compared with 7.6% for inpatient care and 8.6% for hospital outpatient care, according to a Milliman study.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
US Senate Investigates Pain Management Groups US senators have launched an investigation examining ties between pain management specialist organizations and companies that make opioid drugs.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
ESTRO Success After Boosting Cancer Radiotherapy for Anemia Antihypoxia medications put anemic laryngeal cancer patients on even footing with nonanemic patients for tumor control, but not for overall survival.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
Melanoma Agent Surprise: Brain Tumors Shrink Too The efficacy of dabrafenib evidently extends beyond its targets of solid tumors and melanomas that harbor BRAF mutations, according to findings from a phase 1 trial.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012
Lack of Awareness of Late Drug Effects in Cancer Survivors Very few primary care physicians are aware of all the main long-term complications from 4 commonly used chemotherapies.
Medscape Medical News, May 2012