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…
The Women’s Health Initiative launched a hormone therapy trial in the 1990s and follow-up continued with the women participating in the trials. A new study describes the long-term…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Port-A-Cath-related thrombosis develops in up to 40% of pediatric oncology patients, researchers from Switzerland report. “Children with cancer who…
What if it were possible to combine the technological capabilities of an entire laboratory on one single chip? Scientists all across Europe may be getting close. Scientists at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A novel VEGFR inhibitor, tivozanib, improves progression-free survival significantly in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma but does not improve overall survival, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After primary surgery for early-stage endometrial cancer, adjuvant external beam radiation therapy confers no survival benefit overall, according to a Norwegian study. In…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among several different DNA-based quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays for detecting a critical JAK2 mutation in myeloproliferative neoplasms, one stands out as…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s no evidence that starting treatment with the anti-obesity drug orlistat raises the likelihood of developing colorectal cancer, at least in the short…
By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients are not at increased mortality risk compared with their IBD-free peers, but they do…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The identification of differing patterns of oncogenic mutations in squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the cervix may lead to more targeted treatments,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The psychostimulant modafinil is no better than a placebo in improving fatigue, depression and cognitive function in patients with primary brain tumors (PBT),…
