Lung cancer comes in two main types: non-small cell and small cell. Each has different patterns, growth rates, and treatment needs. Smoking is the top risk factor, but…
Harry Erba, MD, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC; Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY; Thomas Cluzeau, MD, PhD, Central University Hospital…
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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The addition of bevacizumab (Avastin; Genentech/Roche) to the standard docetaxel and prednisone in men with progressive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) did not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic caused severe illness and mortality in cancer patients with solid tumors, investigators report in Cancer online February 22.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The 20-year survival rate for people diagnosed with thin or T1 melanomas 1 mm thick or less, the most common type, is 96%,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients with advanced gastric cancer have not benefitted from one or two chemotherapy regimens for metastatic disease, salvage chemotherapy improves their overall…
