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) – High-dose chemo followed by autologous stem-cell transplantation achieves good results in patients with relapsed Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and outcomes are not improved by additional…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In order to minimize the risk of potential harms, erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) in patients undergoing myelosuppressive chemotherapy should be administered at the lowest…
Jacob G. Robison, MD, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses reversal of flow, a technique where particles that occur at the time of balloon…
Jacob G. Robison, MD, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using stent grafts. These devices must be used in an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with multiple myeloma who are not eligible for autologous stem-cell transplantation, a four-drug combination regimen is promising. Adding thalidomide to bortezomib-melphalan-prednisone,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding the anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody bevacizumab to state-of-the-art adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II or III colon cancer does not improve disease-free survival, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rofecoxib used as adjuvant therapy does not improve survival or reduce recurrences in patients who have undergone surgery for colorectal cancer, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients at high risk for pancreatic cancer can be effectively screened with imaging studies and genetic testing, allowing curable neoplasm to be identified…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding interferon alpha-2b and megadose vitamins to treatment with intravesical BCG does not improve outcomes in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. In…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The tyrosine-kinase inhibitor pazopanib seems to be a promising option for treating progressive metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer that is unresponsive to radioiodine therapy,…
