Oncology

Preoperative Definition of Malnutrition Varies by Cancer Type The definition of malnutrition used to assess postoperative risk after oncologic surgery was specific to the type of cancer being treated, say researchers.
News, March 05, 2020
Stopping Immunotherapy After CR in the 'Real World' Many patients with metastatic melanoma on immunotherapy who achieve a complete response (CR) continue to respond, but if they relapse, retreatment may not be successful.
News, March 04, 2020
Strain of E coli Linked to About 5% of Colorectal Cancer A link between a genotoxin-producing strain of E coli and about 5% of colorectal cancer cases could offer novel clues as to how the cancer develops.
News, March 03, 2020
Drug Prices in US Continue to Soar; Are Profits Too High? Three studies and two editorials in Journal of the American Medical Association tackle the issue of the relentless rise in prices of new drugs and ask: Is the pharma industry making too much profit?
News, March 03, 2020
Pembro Ups Survival in NSCLC: 'Really Extraordinary' Results Over a third of patients with relapsed nonsmall cell lung cancer and nearly 100% of those who completed 35 cycles were alive at 3 years.
News, March 02, 2020
Sharp Climb in Weight Gain After Breast Cancer Diagnosis As well as treating the breast cancer, clinicians should prioritize nutrition counseling and prescribe exercise in the first year after diagnosis, say researchers.
News, March 02, 2020
New Study Suggests Milk Could Increase Breast Cancer Risk A new study suggests drinking cow's milk may increase breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women, but an expert warns that the study is observational and the data should not be over-inflated.
News, February 28, 2020
Looks Like Liver Cancer, but Large Cysts Contain Tapeworm Larvae With the first few cases, physicians were flummoxed -- large growths on the liver were cancer free. Turns out they were cysts full of tapeworm larvae.
News, February 26, 2020
Oncology Dominates Clinical Trial Landscape Oncology accounts for the majority of clinical trials that will be launched this year, and most are industry sponsored, notes a new report.
News, February 26, 2020
NCCMAID 2020 Inexact Science: Is Patient Eligible for Medical Aid in Dying? Patients seeking Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) must have a prognosis of less than 6 months and mental capacity to make medical decisions, but how accurately can these criteria be determined?
News, February 25, 2020
Banning Indoor Tanning Devices Could Save Lives and Money Banning indoor tanning devices outright in the United States, Canada, and Europe could prevent as many as 448,000 melanomas and 9.7 million keratinocyte carcinomas, according to a recent study.
News, February 21, 2020
Recycling of Unused Oral Cancer Drugs Endorsed by ASCO More than 20 years after laws that govern state drug depositories were first put in place, the American Society of Clinical Oncology has issued a statement supporting the idea.
News, February 21, 2020
Low Rates of Regret After Prostatectomy When Outcomes Are Good Patients are satisfied after either open or robot-assisted surgery, provided functional outcomes are good, an observational study reports.
News, February 20, 2020
First Baby From Immature Egg Born to Patient With Cancer A patient with breast cancer at risk of infertility from adjuvant chemotherapy has given birth 5 years after having immature oocytes removed, matured in the laboratory, and then frozen.
News, February 19, 2020
First Robot for Supermicrosurgery, Used for Lymphedema The first pilot study of robot-assisted high-precision supermicrosurgery in humans shows it is safe for treating breast cancer-related lymphedema.
News, February 18, 2020
Screen for Cervical Cancer Every 3 Years: More Is a 'Waste' Screening every 3 years is as safe and effective, significantly reducing the rate of cervical cancer; more frequent screening wastes healthcare resources.
News, February 18, 2020
More Than 50 Polyps in Some Young Cancer Survivors Pediatric and young adult cancer patients are at risk of developing numerous polyps (for some, more than 50 polyps) as a result of prior cancer treatment.
News, February 13, 2020
'Refinement of Surgical Treatment' Is ASCO Advance of the Year New systemic therapies have changed the role of surgery in several cancer tumor types, even eliminating the need for it in some cases.
News, February 12, 2020
Adding Ilixadencel Improved Outcomes in Metastatic RCC Combining intratumoral injections of ilixadencel with sunitinib improved responses in patients with newly diagnosed synchronous metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the phase 2 MERECA trial.
News, February 11, 2020
Glioma Trials Should Track Living Well, Not Just Longer Neuro-oncology working group backs focus on how patients feel, function.
News, February 11, 2020

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