Tara Lin, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, discusses how she approaches choosing induction therapy for patients with treatment-related acute myeloid leukemia, emphasizing that fitness…
In the video, Shelley, a 70-year-old diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after her chronic myelomonocytic leukemia progressed, shares her cancer journey and how participating in a clinical trial…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Argon plasma coagulation (APC) in combination with another method of esophageal recanalization is better than APC alone as palliative therapy in patients with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Venous thromboembolism (VTE) after colorectal surgery is nearly twice as common when a patient undergoes an open procedure compared to laparoscopy, a study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) as a class do not appear to be associated with an increased malignancy risk in patients with diabetes,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some patients with metastatic clear-cell renal cancer appear to fare relatively well when treated with sunitinib before undergoing planned nephrectomy — even though…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using intra-arterial chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma can produce a “dramatic response,” but also comes with the risk of both mild and severe side…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who are positive for human papilloma virus (HPV) and have low-grade cervical cytological abnormalities but normal colposcopic findings are at low risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While partial nephrectomy remains the gold standard for treatment of small renal masses, laparoscopic cryoablation is a good option for selected patients, an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hysteroscopy using narrow-band imaging (NBI) technology may be more sensitive than white-light imaging (WLI) for diagnosing endometrial cancer and hyperplasia, hint results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After chemotherapy-induced remission of follicular lymphoma, vaccination with a patient-specific tumor-derived antigen improves disease-free survival, a multicenter team has shown. Furthermore, the vaccine…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The longitudinal decline in lung function seen in patients with common variable immunodeficiency and X-linked agammaglobulinemia is related to immunoglobulin replacement level and…
