Lung cancer comes in two main types: non-small cell and small cell. Each has different patterns, growth rates, and treatment needs. Smoking is the top risk factor, but…
Harry Erba, MD, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC; Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY; Thomas Cluzeau, MD, PhD, Central University Hospital…
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…
Over the past decade advanced technologies have been introduced to potentially minimize the side effects of conventional prostate cancer treatments. A new study examined the increased use of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Since the mid-90s, early survival rates after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) among patients with hematologic diseases have improved significantly, based on an…
By Robert Saunders NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For men with biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy, radiation offers a good chance of cure, according to…
Last fall, a multi-state outbreak of fungal meningitis occurred after contaminated steroid injections were given to patients to treat back pain and other neuropathic symptoms. These contaminated injections…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Fidaxomicin, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2011 for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, is particularly effective in cancer…
By Robert Saunders NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When papillary thyroid cancer spreads to lymph nodes in the neck, percutaneous laser ablation may spare patients further invasive surgery.…
Prescribing antibiotics for children is very common. About 75 percent of these medications are given to treat acute respiratory tract infections or A-R-T-I’s. A new study evaluated whether…
