By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Temsirolimus does not improve progression-free survival in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) compared to standard treatment, according to results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with potentially resectable colorectal liver metastases, the use of combined PET and CT imaging (PET-CT) identifies those with occult extrahepatic disease…
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Revised guidelines on the assessment and management of reproductive complications in young female cancer survivors provide the latest evidence-based recommendations for evaluation and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Symptomatic lymphoceles that develop after retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in gynecologic cancer patients can be dealt with safely and effectively by laparoscopic lymphocele…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While the risk of prostate cancer appears to be reduced in men taking dutasteride, there are indications that cancer may emerge once the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – TNFerade biologic, a novel method of delivering tumor necrosis factor to tumor cells by gene transfer, does not prolong survival when added to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with non-castrate metastatic prostate cancer receiving androgen deprivation therapy fare no better with the addition of docetaxel chemotherapy, a French and Belgian…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Aggressive CT or PET/CT surveillance protocols confer significant risk of radiation-induced cancer in patients being monitored for metastasis from primary choroidal melanoma, California-based…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In HIV patients with anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN), infrared coagulation (IRC) helps avoid progression to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), Spanish doctors say. “High-grade…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men with isolated high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) are at relatively high risk for developing prostate cancer, and treatment with toremifene does not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients undergoing liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma, the risk of recurrence is lower when immunosuppression is based on sirolimus rather than calcineurin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A French team reports some advantages with robot-assisted compared to conventional laparoscopic radical prostatectomy performed via an extraperitoneal approach. “This study did not…
