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) – In patients receiving first-line treatment for metastatic colon cancer, planned complete discontinuation of chemotherapy had a negative impact on duration of disease control…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a phase III trial in women with HER2/hormone receptor-copositive metastatic breast cancer, the combination of trastuzumab plus anastrozole improved outcomes compared to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with primary cutaneous melanoma, targeted high-resolution ultrasound should not be used as a substitute for excisional sentinal lymph node biopsy, new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In detecting prostate cancer, no single prostate specific antigen (PSA) cut-off value achieves the likelihood ratios usually required of a screening test, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that over half of men who choose watchful waiting as the initial strategy for prostate cancer require no treatment on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In premenopausal women with breast cancer, adjuvant tamoxifen treatment significantly reduces the risk of contralateral breast cancer, according to results of a Swedish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with estrogen plus progestin does not seem to increase the risk of lung cancer per se, but it may increase the odds…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Postmenopausal breast cancer patients taking aromatase inhibitors have increased risks for carpal tunnel syndrome and new or worsening arthralgia, two studies published online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of pentoxifylline and vitamin E prevented radiation-induced lymphedema among breast cancer patients in a phase II trial in Sweden. The finding…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that the outcomes of localized prostate cancer following conservative management have improved in the last few decades. According to the…
