Oncology News

• #BCSM: 'Invaluable Tool' for the Breast Cancer Community The first online breast cancer support group, built around the #BCSM Twitter hashtag, has grown tremendously in the past 10 years, building connections between patients and professionals around the world.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2020
• Now USPSTF Also Suggests Start CRC Screening at Age 45 The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued a draft recommendation to begin screening for colorectal cancer at age 45 years.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2020
• ACG 2020 Cannabis May Improve Liver Function in Patients With Obesity Cannabis use is associated with a reduction in steatohepatitis and disease progression in people with obesity, results from a retrospective study show, but use was self-reported, so questions remain.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2020
• Upped Risk of Death From Other Causes After Hodgkin Lymphoma Compared with the general population, survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma have a significantly higher mortality risk from noncancer and cancers other than lymphomas.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2020
• Will Open Notes Requirement Change How You Chart? The 21st Century Cures Act, passed in 2016, requires that patients have access to the clinical notes within their medical records. Regulations implementing the requirements take effect soon.
  Medscape Reader Polls, October 26, 2020
• Opinion: Bailout US Cancer Care The authors argue that 'ensuring the short-term solvency of independent practices is critical to preserving patients' access to cancer care.'
  Medscape Medical News, October 23, 2020
• New Thermography Shows Efficacy for Breast Cancer Screening Thermography aided by diagnostic software may provide an alternative to mammography in resource-poor countries where standard breast cancer screening is not available or affordable, say researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, October 23, 2020
• Lower BP and Better Tumor Control With Drug Combo? Angiotensin II receptor blockers but not angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors were associated with better responses and survival for patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, October 22, 2020
• 25 Drugs, Drug Classes Added to FDA's Safety Signal List The agency found a potential safety problem in a diabetes drug class. Several proton pump inhibitors and fibric acid derivatives also made the list.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2020
• 'Impressive' Outcomes Sans Chemo in Poor-Prognosis ALL Chemo-free targeted therapy yielded high rates of molecular response, "impressive" survival at 18 months with few toxic effects in a phase 2 trial of adults with Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2020
• pCR in HER2+ Breast Cancer Predicts Long-Term Survival A pathologic complete response to targeted therapy in HER2-positive breast cancer portends good long-term outcomes and may be a marker of cure, according to the final results of a phase 3 trial.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2020
• Patients Can Read Your Clinical Notes Starting Nov 2 Traditionally, clinical notes have been written by doctors for other doctors and various administrators, but a federal mandate now gives patients immediate and easy access too.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2020
• CHEST 2020 High-risk Blacks Missed by Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines Many younger Black lung cancer patients did not meet the criteria for lung cancer screening in national guidelines, a retrospective study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2020
• Gene Signature May Be Similarly Prognostic in ILC and IDC The MammaPrint 70-gene signature has similar prognostic performance in women with early-stage invasive lobular carcinoma and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), according to an exploratory analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2020
• ANA 2020 CML Drug Nilotinib Shows Early Effects in Alzheimer's Disease Preliminary findings for the oral nonantibody drug show safety, significant changes in key Alzheimer's biomarkers.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2020
• Popularity of Virtual Conferences May Mean a Permanent Shift Turning in-person medical meetings into online events in the wake of the pandemic levelled the playing field for people who haven't traditionally had access to such meetings.
  Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2020
• First-in-Class Oral EZH2 Inhibitor Effective in Two Cancers Phase 2 results hint at the power of epigenetic targets.
  Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2020
• Are Oncologists Ready to Confront a Second Wave of COVID-19? As COVID-19 cases continue to increase or increase again worldwide, Medscape reached out to oncologists in different countries to hear how they are preparing and what they learned from the first wave.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2020
• Two-Stage Surgery to Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk Piques Interest Women at high risk of developing ovarian cancer want to have options when it comes to taking steps such as surgery for reducing their risk, a survey finds.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2020
• The Horror of Medical School Captured on Film   To draw attention to how medical school administrations often fail to fully address student concerns, Phillip Anjum made a film. His hope is that a horror movie will be harder to ignore than an email.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2020