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…
Protein energy malnutrition can cause death in post-operative and cancer patients. New protein-rich snacks can help remedy that situation, and offer a new solution for cancer patients undergoing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Mounting evidence suggests that preoperative prostate specific antigen (PSA) kinetics are a poor marker of disease progression. During active surveillance for low-risk, low-volume…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Up to 20% of tests for estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast cancers are false negatives or false positives, according to a consensus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Physicians should monitor serum testosterone levels during androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) in men with prostate cancer, according to an April 16th online report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Positron emission tomography (PET) of the liver is extremely unreliable in patients who’ve just had chemotherapy for colorectal cancer metastases, because the false-negative…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prostate specific antigen (PSA) doubling time as measured before radical prostatectomy does not predict biochemical progression after surgery, according to a report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Accelerated radiation therapy is more effective than conventional fractionation for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC), but complications of treatment…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Concomitant chemoradiation is better than sequential therapy for improving survival with locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a patient-level meta-analysis reported…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women treated with chest radiation in childhood or adolescence are at increased risk for breast cancer at a young age, and their risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active surveillance for renal cortical neoplasm is a “reasonable treatment option” in older patients with comorbid illness, according to a single-center report from…
