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…
Recent Videos in Reuters Health • The Doctor’s Channel Newscast Page 7
By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dual HER2 blockade didn’t increase heart problems in a meta-analysis of data from patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. “The combination…
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…
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…
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.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In colorectal cancer patients, ablation of bilateral hepatic metastases with or without surgery compares well to the gold standard approach of bilateral resection,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Based on Medicare claims data, the rate of incisional hernia following radical prostatectomy is about three-times higher with minimally invasive surgery than with…
