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) – Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin may be an alternative to paclitaxel in combination with carboplatin for advanced ovarian cancer, based on the results of an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whole lung irradiation, used to treat pulmonary metastases of solid malignancies in children, can lead to increasing pulmonary problems, Tennessee-based researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most patients with differentiated thyroid cancer metastasized to bone benefit from iodine-131 therapy, with stabilization of disease and significant reduction in pain, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining an EGFR-directed tyrosine kinase inhibitor with conventional chemotherapy does not seem to be a good treatment strategy for lung cancer. According to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pooled data suggest that cancer patients who are treated with sunitinib (Sutent; Pfizer) have about a 2-fold increased relative risk of developing high-grade…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nearly 1 in 5 cancer patients treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy have a thromboembolic event within a month of ending treatment, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of two phase II trials investigating the addition of bortezomib to combination treatments of follicular lymphoma suggest that the strategy is feasible…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a viable alternative in patients with early hepatocellular carcinoma who are not candidates for surgery, Taiwanese researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pneumothorax occurs in 15% of patients having a transthoracic needle biopsy of a pulmonary nodule, according to the findings of a population-based cross-sectional…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When added to whole-brain irradiation, radiosurgery is preferable to neurosurgical resection for treating cancer patients with a single metastasis to the brain, according…
