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…
Low-risk prostate cancer patients have multiple options when it comes to treatment. Janna Andrews, MD, characterizes the differences between surgical and radiation treatments as well as the various subcategories…
Janna Andrews, MD, discusses the clinical threshold for when a physician should consider preforming a biopsy after preforming a PSA exam to screen for prostate cancer. She also…
How has the nature of chemotherapy and prostate cancer evolved? Janna Andrews, MD, explains that historically, there were not many options for patients who became resistant to androgen deprivation therapy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Serrated lesions of the colorectum, once thought benign, may give rise to one-third of all colorectal cancers, but are more difficult to detect…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ablation of atrial fibrillation by combining the transvenous catheter approach with the thoracoscopic epicardial approach in a single procedure has a high success…
How can physicians evaluate what rising PSA levels mean when screening for prostate cancer? Janna Andrews, MD, explains how PSA levels rise naturally with growing age, and how physicians can use…
The recent PLCO study and its results have sparked controversy in some circles. The trial concludes that routine PSA exams and digital rectal exams, standard screening exams for prostate cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women undergoing labor induction, the rate of vaginal delivery within 24 hours is higher when a double-balloon transcervical catheter rather than a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients undergoing a transrectal prostate biopsy, a pelvic plexus block (PPB) is more effective than a periprostatic nerve block for controlling pain,…
Most weight loss programs are rather intensive during the initial weeks of treatment. They can also be costly and require a huge time commitment. An alternative treatment is…
