Roughly 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with multiple myeloma each year—a rare but serious cancer of the plasma cells. Historically treated with chemotherapy, patients often faced recurring disease and…
Kidney cancer affects over 80,000 Americans annually, with renal cell carcinoma as the dominant type. Benjamin R. Lee, MD, MBA, outlines current AUA guideline recommendations, including when to…
Scott Nelson, MD, talks at the 2009 NAMC Conference in Santa Ana Pueblo New Mexico, about how physicians can better communicate with terminally ill patients. Reading: Shama ME,…
Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Definitive chemoradiotherapy is an effective treatment than can be dispensed with no significant toxicity in elderly patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer, according…
A research team led by scientists at MD Anderson Cancer Center report that 2 specific common inheritedgenetic variations are associated with increased risk of lung cancer for smokers…
Levels of two proteins in a woman’s ovarian cancer are strongly associated with her likelihood of survival, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The incidence of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is increased somewhat in patients with diabetes, according to results of a meta-analysis published in Diabetes Care…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a case-control study suggest that the benefit of colonoscopy in preventing colorectal cancer deaths is largely limited to left-sided malignancies.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a phase I trial suggest that intralesional transfer of plasmid interleukin (IL)-12 enhanced by electroporation for treatment of metastatic melanoma is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While prophylactic cranial irradiation can reduce the occurrence of brain metastases and improve survival in patients treated for extensive-disease small-cell lung cancer, it…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with resectable cancer of the pancreas, the use of neoadjuvant radiation therapy over surgery alone or surgery plus postoperative radiation therapy…
