Exercise during curative chemotherapy for breast cancer has proven benefits. It helps reduce fatigue, preserve muscle strength, improve fitness, and enhance overall quality of life. Staying physically active…
With a wave of FDA approvals and promising clinical trials, treatment options for metastatic breast cancer are expanding fast. Amy Tiersten, MD, highlights the power of immunotherapies—especially checkpoint…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with early (stage I and IIA) colon cancer derive similar benefits from intensive postoperative surveillance as those with late stage IIB and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) improves the staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and also reduces the numbers of total…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High intake of saturated and monounsaturated fat may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, according to a report in the Journal of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research suggests that for some patients with cancer, especially brain tumors and small-cell-lung cancer, the first manifestation is a psychiatric symptom. The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that with effective chemotherapy, children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) do not need to receive prophylactic cranial irradiation. Prophylactic cranial…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer, the combination of gemcitabine and a novel cationic liposomal formulation of paclitaxel called EndoTAG-1 substantially prolongs survival…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a phase III study of patients with progressive well-differentiated pancreatic islet cell tumors, treatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib significantly prolonged…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As the number of African Americans in a given US county increases, the number of specialists involved in colorectal cancer care decreases, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Survivors of Hodgkin’s lymphoma are to 2- to 3-times more likely to experience a stroke or TIA compared with people in the general…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even a short period of 4 to 8 weeks of smoking cessation prior to surgery to treat upper aerodigestive tract squamous cell carcinoma…
