In this presentation, Anand A. Patel, MD, reviewed the contemporary standard-of-care treatment roadmap for AML in 2025, covering key phases like induction chemotherapy (eg, the “7+3” regimen), consolidation…
Eunice S. Wang, MD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, discusses the treatment strategies for patients who develop secondary acute myeloid leukemia (AML) following hypomethylating agent…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Over half of patients with refractory and relapsed acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) achieve a complete or partial response when treated with the CD22…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Peridural analgesia administered during colorectal cancer resection and postoperatively is associated with improved long-term survival rates, researchers in Germany report. “The present results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study comparing laparoscopic to open surgery for rectal cancer has confirmed the long-term oncologic safety of the laparoscopic approach. “This pooled analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Postsurgical radioiodine treatment (RIT) has helped many children and adolescents living in Belarus who developed advanced radiation-induced differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) after the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women previously treated for Hodgkin lymphoma, mammography is as sensitive as breast MRI in detecting breast cancer – and the two modalities…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Survival among women diagnosed with breast cancer when they are pregnant is comparable to that for nonpregnant women of reproductive age treated for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A meta-analysis of 25 studies has confirmed an increased risk of cancer among children born after fertility treatment. However, “Our results do not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A European study indicates that patients with T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia may respond well to induction chemotherapy using fludarabine, mitoxantrone and cyclophosphamide, followed by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Measuring urinary levels of prostate cancer antigen 3 (PSA3) may be more accurate than PSA testing in detecting prostate cancer, but evidence is…
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was designed to help prevent cervical cancer. For the vaccine to be effective it must be administered before sexual activity begins. A new study…
