In this Oncology Brothers podcast episode, Naval Daver, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, discusses treatment strategies for both therapy‑related and de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML), focusing on cases…
Tara Lin, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, discusses how she approaches choosing induction therapy for patients with treatment-related acute myeloid leukemia, emphasizing that fitness…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with Kawasaki disease, initial treatment with a combination of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and ulinastatin reduces the occurrence of coronary artery lesions…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Acupuncture given simultaneously with radiotherapy to the head and neck reduces the development and severity of xerostomia (dry mouth) and improves quality of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Porcine surfactant (poractant alfa) may work better than bovine surfactant (beractant) in preterm newborns with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), according to results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) receiving invasive or noninvasive mechanical ventilation benefit from systemic corticosteroid therapy, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women in spontaneous labor but requiring labor augmentation, oral misoprostol is as effective as intravenous oxytocin, at team from the University of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When colorectal metastases to the liver are resectable, preoperative chemo is not beneficial. For unresectable lesions, however, chemotherapy to downsize the lesions can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In selected patients, colectomy can be performed laparoscopically via a single port. However, the advantages of this technique over multiport laparoscopic colectomy seem…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with the angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) candesartan is not associated with either carcinogenesis or cancer death compared with non-ARB standard antihypertensive treatment,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with large proximal ureteral stones, laparoscopic ureterolithotomy (LAP) is associated with higher success rates and fewer treatment sessions than extracorporeal shock…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the Platelet Inhibition and Patient Outcomes (PLATO) trial, ticagrelor and clopidogrel were associated with similar rates of major bleeding, but ticagrelor was…
