Kidney cancer affects over 80,000 Americans annually, with renal cell carcinoma as the dominant type. Benjamin R. Lee, MD, MBA, outlines current AUA guideline recommendations, including when to…
Dr. Allison Betof Warner from Stanford University joins Rahul Gosain, MD and Rohit Gosain, MD, on the Oncology Brothers podcast to discuss melanoma treatment. The conversation covers the…
Martin Lee, author of Smoke Signals, and director of Project CBD, explains his motivations for pursuing cannabinoid research and his interest in the social history of marijuana. He explains the challenge…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –In mice, treatment with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) or lymphotoxin makes the blood-brain barrier (BBB) selectively permeable at metastasis sites,…
Nancy Simonian, MD, CEO, Syros Pharmaceuticals details the research of Richard A. Young of the Whitehead Institute and his discovery of super-enhancers, large groups of transcriptional enhancers that drive expression…
Nancy Simonian, MD, CEO, Syros Pharmaceuticals elaborates on the breakthrough discovery of super-enhancers, large groups of transcriptional enhancers that drive expression of genes that define cell identity. By identifying…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Median survival of patients with metastatic gastric cancer has not improved, despite increased use of chemotherapy, researchers from The…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Improved survival among women with stage I or II endometrial cancer who undergo radiotherapy and lymphadenectomy may be attributable…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) may benefit from resuming imatinib even after a previous failure of imatinib…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Breast cancer metastases in a given patient often have a different receptor status, a new study demonstrates. “Different metastases within the same patient…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A review of the literature has shown that the most important harms from cancer screening are often not quantified in screening trials. “Healthcare…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Dutch population-based study has shown that, while mucinous colorectal cancer is thought to carry a poor prognosis, it actually responds as well…