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) – A European study indicates that starting with endosonography for assessing mediastinal lymph node status in potentially resectable lung cancer is more cost-effective than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of pomalidomide and low-dose dexamethasone improves survival in patients with advanced multiple myeloma more than does treatment with high-dose dexamethasone alone,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Australian and Canadian researchers have shown in lab experiments that L-type amino acid transporters (LATS) are crucial to the growth and proliferation of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In smokers and former smokers, annual lung cancer screening with low-dose (LD) CT scans should not be discontinued after a negative result, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The incidence of breast cancer in women prescribed testosterone implant treatment for symptoms of androgen deficiency is lower than in several comparison groups,…
Clark Chen, MD, PhD explains that the most common form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, is also one of the most deadly cancers. Despite efforts to find treatments and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A multinational study has shown that progression-free survival in elderly patients with untreated metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) is improved significantly when bevacizumab is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with unresected stage III non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are not candidates for chemoradiotherapy benefit from radiation therapy (RT) alone, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After resection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, chemotherapy with fluorouracil or gemcitabine reduces mortality by about a third, Taiwanese researchers have shown. On the other…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Impaired kidney function related to treatment of childhood cancer does not recover over time, according to a Dutch study reported in Cancer Epidemiology,…
