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) – Patients treated in childhood for Hodgkin lymphoma or Wilms tumor are at particularly high risk for developing colorectal cancer at a relatively young…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preoperative hysteroscopy can be safely used as a diagnostic tool in women with endometrial cancer, according to a report in the April 30th…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For localized renal tumors, partial nephrectomy confers a survival advantage and a lower risk of severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) after surgery, relative…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients younger than 50 with colon cancer derive similar benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy as older patients, according to study results reported in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dyspnea in patients with malignant pleural effusion is relieved to a similar degree with use of either indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) or chest…
Brachytherapy has become increasingly and commonly used in the United States to treat breast cancer after a lumpectomy. Although this therapy and the standard treatment, whole breast irradiation,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active surveillance (“watchful waiting”) of small renal masses offers short term results equivalent to those with immediate surgery, researchers from UK report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preoperative 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) can make a significant contribution to staging for locally advanced gastric cancer, according to a report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Getting a second opinion of surgical breast pathology often leads to changes that impact treatment in women with node-negative breast cancer or ductal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Chemotherapy given before surgery in patients with small-cell urothelial cancer (SCUC) downstages tumors and results in significantly improved survival, a team from the…