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) – New research suggests that when noncalcified lung nodules are detected by computed tomography (CT), assessment of their volume and volume-doubling time with repeat…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding cetuximab to standard chemotherapy for colorectal liver metastases often shrinks inoperable lesions enough to permit resection, according to a study released today…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating HER-2 positive, metastatic breast cancer with trastuzumab significantly increased survival in a retrospective study, to the point were such women given the…
Robert Shorr, Ph.D, D.I.C, CEO, Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, discusses how physicians can understand a new oncology drug, starting with knowing its safety limitations. He also explains the structure and…
Gary Falk, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Esophageal and Swallowing Disorders, Cleveland Clinic, discusses a new treatment Barrett’s esophagus, radiofrequency ablation, useful in two particular…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active surveillance of prostate cancer, with intervention offered for progressive disease, appears to be safe even for intermediate-risk disease in men over the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research confirms that tubular carcinoma (TC) of the breast has an excellent prognosis and goes on to show that outcomes are better…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Transfusion of two rather than one unit of partially HLA-matched umbilical cord blood (UCB) appears to reduce the risk of relapse in leukemia…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In an update to its 2003 guidelines for stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) chemotherapy, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommends…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In an update to its 2002 guidelines, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is now recommending that mammographic screening for breast cancer…
