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 young women with breast cancer, temporary ovarian suppression by the gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue triptorelin during chemotherapy reduces the occurrence of premature menopause,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The hypoxia-altitude simulation test (HAST) can be used to identify patients with COPD in need of supplemental oxygen in flight, but not precisely…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Weight-based insulin doses up to 0.6 unit/kg are associated with a low risk of hypoglycemia, according to a report in the June 23rd…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In postmenopausal women with node-positive early breast cancer, substituting docetaxel for epirubicin for the last three cycles of chemotherapy may improve outcome without…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An investigational agent, ARC1779, reduces cerebral emboli resulting from carotid endarterectomy by inhibiting the prothrombotic effects of von Willebrand factor (vWF), according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Frenotomy in newborns with significant ankyloglossia rapidly improves breastfeeding scores and reduces maternal nipple pain, according to the results of a randomized trial…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When used as adjuvant therapy in high-risk breast cancer or as primary treatment for metastatic breast cancer, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) with autologous stem-cell…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When unfavorable anatomy of the cardiac veins impedes transvenous placement of left ventricular leads for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), implantation via a minithoracotomy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants and toddlers aged 6 to 23 months in North America are currently given a half-dose of split-virus trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV), but…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients undergoing their first coronary artery bypass procedure, outcomes are better when saphenous vein grafts are used for a single distal anastomosis…
