Oncology Perspective

• Remarkable 'Music of Mourning' From a Reclusive Ethiopian Nun   A grieving widow introduces David Kerr to a new composer, which moves him to muse about the music he turns to for solace.
  Medscape Oncology, December 02, 2020
• Happy Days in Oncology: More Applause, Less Rigor? Dr Jack West worries that in our quest for positive outcomes, we've stopped being thought leaders and become cheerleaders instead.
  Medscape Oncology, December 01, 2020
• Metastatic RCC Highlights From IKCS 2020   Dr Brian Rini reports key results in metastatic RCC from IKCS 2020, including early evidence of benefit from lenvatinib-everolimus in non-clear cell RCC, and an alternative ipilimumab-nivolumab dose.
  Medscape, December 01, 2020
• 'High-Speed' Science: It's Time We Slow Down   With COVID studies and virtual meeting abstracts coming fast and furious, we need to slow down and return to carefully reviewing new data, says Maurie Markman.
  Medscape Oncology, December 01, 2020
• Doctors: Our Culture Is Ours and We Need to Own It As physicians, we are complicit in the construction and maintenance of our culture. Is this who we want to be?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 24, 2020
• Monitoring MBC Treatment Response: 5 Things to Know Although some patients with advanced breast cancer are living longer, a better understanding of treatment response and disease progression is necessary.
  Medscape Oncology, November 23, 2020
• Hidden Diagnoses: From Einstein to Luther, JFK to Evita An acclaimed surgeon with rheumatoid arthritis and an emperor with a tracheotomy are among the fascinating vignettes presented here.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 20, 2020
• Medscape APRN Compensation Report 2020 Find out how much APRNs are being paid and whether their earnings are static or increasing.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 20, 2020
• Liver Cancer Rates Are Rising; So Is Optimism Around Its Treatment Dr Nancy Reau shares the promising data leading her to believe that the trends around liver cancer can soon be reversed.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 20, 2020
• Cancer Care During COVID: It's Been a Mixed Experience   Professor David Kerr discusses his experiences delivering cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Oncology, November 18, 2020
• Life, Death, and Painful Dilemmas: Ethics 2020 Medscape looked at how physician ethics have changed in the past decade. More than 5000 physicians told us how they feel about the critical issues they have to deal with and the choices they make.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 13, 2020
• Breast Cancer and Hormone Therapy: What Do the New Data Mean?   A large British study takes another look at the question of the link between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, November 13, 2020
• A Seismic Shift in Colorectal Cancer Screening   Dr Mark Lewis discusses how the recent USPSTF recommendation to start colorectal cancer screening at age 45 years could affect physicians and patients alike.
  Medscape Oncology, November 12, 2020
• Applying to Residency in a Pandemic: 5 Virtual Interview Tips Virtual residency interviews present a unique challenge. These five strategies to improve the content of your answers will be valuable long after the pandemic is over.
  Medscape Med Students, November 12, 2020
• Dependent No Longer? PAs Contemplate Their Future What will happen to PA scope of practice when the pandemic is over?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 09, 2020
• 10 Highlights From ACG's 'Virtually' Perfect Annual Meeting   According to Dr David Johnson, this year's meeting didn't suffer from moving online, with an abundance of important research.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 09, 2020
• Why Medscape Worked: A Look Back At its founding, Medscape gambled that an open internet that empowered users to make their own decisions about what to read would democratize medicine. Here's why physicians bought in.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 05, 2020
• Community Oncs Manage 'Devastating' Pandemic in Navajo Nation How a community oncology practice in New Mexico has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Oncology, November 04, 2020
• NCRI 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from NCRI 2020.
  Medscape UK, November 03, 2020
• Myeloma-Induced Acute Kidney Injury: Medicine vs Machine Higher-tech or more aggressive treatment doesn't necessarily mean better, cautions Tejas Desai, MD, in his review of studies on treatment strategies for myeloma-induced acute kidney injury.
  Medscape Nephrology, November 02, 2020