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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Revised guidelines on the assessment and management of reproductive complications in young female cancer survivors provide the latest evidence-based recommendations for evaluation and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Symptomatic lymphoceles that develop after retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in gynecologic cancer patients can be dealt with safely and effectively by laparoscopic lymphocele…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While the risk of prostate cancer appears to be reduced in men taking dutasteride, there are indications that cancer may emerge once the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – TNFerade biologic, a novel method of delivering tumor necrosis factor to tumor cells by gene transfer, does not prolong survival when added to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with non-castrate metastatic prostate cancer receiving androgen deprivation therapy fare no better with the addition of docetaxel chemotherapy, a French and Belgian…
Hanne Mintz, co-chair of the Meso Foundation Board of Directors, discusses the foundation’s goals to find effective treatment and ultimately a cure for mesothelioma. She recommends both physicians…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Aggressive CT or PET/CT surveillance protocols confer significant risk of radiation-induced cancer in patients being monitored for metastasis from primary choroidal melanoma, California-based…
Robert Komitor, an attorney at Levy Philips & Konigsberg, LLP, discusses the best way for mesothelioma patients to receive compensation. Asbestos exposure is the only known and well…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In HIV patients with anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN), infrared coagulation (IRC) helps avoid progression to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), Spanish doctors say. “High-grade…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men with isolated high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) are at relatively high risk for developing prostate cancer, and treatment with toremifene does not…
