Komal Jhaveri, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and lead author of the EMBER-3 trial, as she discusses the significance of this approval, its impact on the treatment…
Sung-Bae Kim, MD, PhD, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, reports on results from the East Asian subgroup of the Phase 3 EMBER‑3 trial, showing that in patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among children receiving anthracycline-based chemotherapy, echocardiograms obtained before and during treatment rarely detect significant cardiotoxicity that changes treatment decisions, reports a team with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients who develop febrile neutropenia after chemotherapy but who are otherwise stable can be treated as outpatients, with no greater risk for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research supports current clinical guidance to perform partial nephrectomy (PN) when possible in patients with clinically organ-confined renal cell tumors 7 centimeters…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with a limited number of brain metastases, treatment with stereotactic radiosurgery alone is as good as whole-brain radiotherapy plus stereotactic radiosurgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The diagnostic yield of endobronchial biopsy is improved when specimens are obtained using a cryoprobe rather than conventional forceps, a German team reports.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite tradeoffs in visual acuity, patients with ocular melanoma near the optic nerve benefit from proton beam radiotherapy in terms of eye conservation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A large increase in the number of lymph nodes evaluated during surgery for colon cancer — a quality improvement metric– has not had…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing surgery for spinal metastases at teaching hospitals in July have higher mortality and complication rates than similar patients treated in other…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Endoscopic ablation of Barrett’s esophagus can bury metaplastic glands under a layer of neosquamousepithelium. However, how often this happens and its importance still…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with prostate cancer involving the seminal vesicle and who undergo radical prostatectomy fare best when given adjuvant radiotherapy plus androgen deprivation therapy,…
