Oncology

Pill Not Enough for 'Sexual Problems' Female Cancer Patients Face Bupropion was not more effective than placebo in improving sexual desire/energy in female cancer survivors who had completed treatment for breast and gynecologic cancers.
News, January 05, 2022
'Dr Death' to Remain in Prison; $4 Million Paid to Patients Farid Fata, MD, who gave chemotherapy to people without cancer, now says his life is in danger because of COVID-19 and his own medical conditions.
News, July 21, 2020
ASCO 2020 Treatments Linked to Death in COVID Patients With Thoracic Cancers Past treatment may affect the risk of death among patients with thoracic malignancies who develop COVID-19, according to data from the TERAVOLT registry.
News, June 29, 2020
Androgens May Explain Male Vulnerability to COVID-19 Striking differences in how men and women are affected by COVID-19 might be explained by deleterious effects of androgens in males, say Italian researchers.
News, May 07, 2020
Drug Therapy for Prostate Cancer on Active Surveillance? The randomized, open-label ProVent trial will evaluate whether treatment with Provenge can reduce disease progression at 3 years.
News, April 29, 2020
Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Upended by COVID-19, Says CRUK The pandemic has severely affected cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment, resulting in patients being undiagnosed and untreated, warns Cancer Research UK.
News, April 28, 2020
Cancer Survivors Stay in Job to Keep Health Insurance One in three cancer survivors stay in their job just to maintain the health insurance their employers provide.
News, April 27, 2020
Surgeons Often Warp Tumor Boards, Says Study Tumor boards gather together surgical, radiation, and medical oncologists as well as other specialists to discuss the best treatment for a given patient. But does each discipline get a fair say?
News, April 21, 2020
European Cancer Centers Restructure Care in the Era of COVID-19 Seven leading European cancer centers share their knowledge and experiences in treating patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
News, April 21, 2020
'Encouraging' Results With Pre-Op Therapy for DCIS There's a template now for treating DCIS with pre-operative endocrine therapy, and it shows that 15% of patients have a pathologic complete response.
News, April 17, 2020
Regular Aspirin Use and Reduced Risk of Pancreatic, Liver Cancer Regular aspirin use was associated with a reduced risk of cancer at all gastrointestinal sites, including pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers.
News, April 16, 2020
New Score Predicts When Patients With CLL Should Start Treatment Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia are initially followed with active surveillance; a new prognostic score helps the decision-making process of when they should start treatment.
News, April 14, 2020
ASCO Announces Its Own COVID-19 and Cancer Registry The American Society of Clinical Oncology has launched a COVID-19 and cancer registry and asks oncologists nationwide to submit data on their patients.
News, April 13, 2020
Rethink Urologic Cancer Treatment in the Era of COVID-19 Curative treatments for metastatic prostate, renal, and urothelial cancer should continue as usual amid the pandemic, but palliative and (neo)adjuvant treatments should be reconsidered, experts say.
News, April 09, 2020
Treating Rectal Cancer in the COVID-19 Era: Expert Guidance An international expert panel has offered new recommendations for treating rectal cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic, which they drew up in 20 days.
News, April 09, 2020
Increased Risk of Lung Cancer With COPD, Even in Never Smokers Lung cancer is more common in never smokers who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than in ever smokers without COPD, concludes an observational study.
News, April 07, 2020
Treating Lung Cancer in COVID-19 Times: Update From Experts Lung cancer experts issued thoughtful recommendations on how to approach lung cancer during the pandemic while still limiting exposure to COVID-19 as patients are in hospital receiving treatment.
News, April 07, 2020
New CAR T-Cell Therapy Finds Niche in R/R Mantle Cell Lymphoma A single infusion of a new form of CAR T-cell therapy induces durable remissions in relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma following BKT failure.
News, April 07, 2020
'Brutal' Plan to Restrict Palliative Radiation During Pandemic A plan to restrict palliative radiation to oncology emergencies only during the COVID-19 pandemic 'is brutal' but necessary, say radiation oncologists.
News, April 06, 2020
No Staff COVID-19 Diagnoses After Plan at Chinese Cancer Center Chinese researchers report that no staff members were diagnosed with COVID-19 after 'strict protective measures' for screening and managing patients with cancer were implemented.
News, April 02, 2020

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