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) – Older patients with small localized kidney tumors treated with partial nephrectomy live longer than those treated with radical nephrectomy, a new study suggests.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A meta-analysis of individual patient data found no differences in overall survival, progression-free survival, and objective response rate between cisplatin- and carboplatin-based chemotherapy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adjuvant tamoxifen after surgery and radiation reduces subsequent ipsilateral and contralateral breast cancers in women with estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS),…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A multicenter center study has shown that adding cetuximab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and preoperative radiotherapy improves overall survival after excision of high-risk rectal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A multicenter center study has shown that adding cetuximab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and preoperative radiotherapy improves overall survival after excision of high-risk rectal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In general, adding pemetrexed to cisplatin therapy does not improve overall survival (OS) in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Disease-free survival is not improved after resection of stage III colon cancer when cetuximab is added to chemotherapy with leucovorin, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A guideline issued by the American Society of Clinical Oncology recommends that actual rather than an adjusted ideal body weight should be used…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reduced-dose chemotherapy in children with Down syndrome (DS) associated acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome effectively maintains survival, researchers report in a March…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a European study, patients at high risk of recurrent gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who received imatinib (Gleevec; Novartis) for three years after…
