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) – Particle beam radiation has been available since 1954, but a systematic literature review has failed to turn up statistically or clinically significant differences…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Findings from a systematic review indicate that while tamoxifen, raloxifene, and tibolone all reduce the risk of primary breast cancer, the drugs differ…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a treatment for renal tumors, robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) offers comparable oncologic control as traditional laparoscopic nephrectomy, but with less blood loss,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doubling the standard dose of fluvestrant improves the efficacy of the drug against breast cancer without affecting tolerability, new research suggests. Moroever, at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It’s possible that more than 1 million men in the US have been needlessly treated for prostate cancer since the late 1980s, when…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nadroparin, a low-molecular-weight heparin, reduces the incidence of thromboembolic events in ambulatory patients receiving chemotherapy for metastatic or locally advanced solid cancers, an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with estrogen/progestin reduces the risk of colorectal cancer, but Israeli researchers have found that aspirin use and an active…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – “There is no strong evidence” that any significant subpopulation of breast cancer patients diagnosed in the 1980s and early 1990s was ever “cured,”…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with high-risk esophageal varices treated with the beta-blocker carvedilol had lower rates of first bleeding episodes than patients treated with variceal band…
The diagnosis of prostate cancer can be a confusing and scary time for many men. Ken Burger discusses his process of learning to adapt and deal with the…
