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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with the angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) candesartan is not associated with either carcinogenesis or cancer death compared with non-ARB standard antihypertensive treatment,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Bone loss in postmenopausal women taking adjuvant letrozole for early breast cancer can be prevented with administration of zoledronic acid, investigators report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the rituximab era, it’s not necessary to administer prophylaxis against central nervous system (CNS) disease in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The number of monitoring visits for patients treated for localized primary melanoma can be reduced considerably, without having much effect on spotting any…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vandetanib shows encouraging action against advanced and metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma, researchers report in an October 24th on-line paper in the Journal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older patients with advanced hematologic malignancies and comorbid conditions can successfully undergo nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), results of a new study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After organ transplantation, the overall risk of any new malignancy doubles, according to a new report from the U.S. National Cancer Institute. The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women with advanced breast cancer, capecitabine provides similar overall survival with less toxicity compared with classical cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF) first-line…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For the majority of women undergoing gynecologic surgery for benign conditions, intermittent pneumatic compression provides sufficient protection against venous thromboembolism (VTE). Women at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Testing for autoantibody against the 155-kDa protein is a “highly accurate” tool for diagnosing cancer-associated myositis in adults with dermatomyositis, according to a…