Jennifer Crombie, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, discusses results from a real-world study of lisocabtagene maraleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma. Similar to published findings…
Tanya Siddiqi, MD, medical director of lymphoma, City of Hope, Orange County, California, discusses the primary analysis of the TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial. This phase 1/2, single-arm, multicenter…
Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center at UCSF Medical Center, explains how the immersive nature of video games can be used to benefit medical disorders as…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Carboplatin plus pemetrexed improves survival over pemetrexed alone in ambulatory patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), randomized trial…
Uncontrolled blood pressure can increase the risk for possible heart attack or stroke. In the U.S., almost half the patients with high blood pressure do not have it…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An updated meta-analysis supports the strategy of giving intravesical chemotherapy (IVC) immediately after bladder tumor resection to reduce the risk of recurrence. “However,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The cumulative incidence of osteonecrosis of the jaw was about 2% over 6 years among women with early breast cancer who received intensive…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Morbidity associated with inguinal lymphadenectomy in patients with penile carcinoma has declined, and is “reasonable” considering the potential benefit, a Brazilian team reports.…
By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dual HER2 blockade didn’t increase heart problems in a meta-analysis of data from patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. “The combination…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with head and neck or esophageal cancer undergoing chemoradiotherapy, enteral nutrition enriched with n-3 fatty acids helps preserve body mass. The…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hormone therapy may suffice for women with stage IA endometrial cancer of all grades, if they want to try…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A review of the literature indicates that, far from being futile, radical prostatectomy improves outcomes when lymph nodes (LNs) are found to be…
