NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Over half of patients with refractory and relapsed acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) achieve a complete or partial response when treated with the CD22…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Peridural analgesia administered during colorectal cancer resection and postoperatively is associated with improved long-term survival rates, researchers in Germany report. “The present results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study comparing laparoscopic to open surgery for rectal cancer has confirmed the long-term oncologic safety of the laparoscopic approach. “This pooled analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Postsurgical radioiodine treatment (RIT) has helped many children and adolescents living in Belarus who developed advanced radiation-induced differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) after the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women previously treated for Hodgkin lymphoma, mammography is as sensitive as breast MRI in detecting breast cancer – and the two modalities…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Survival among women diagnosed with breast cancer when they are pregnant is comparable to that for nonpregnant women of reproductive age treated for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A meta-analysis of 25 studies has confirmed an increased risk of cancer among children born after fertility treatment. However, “Our results do not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A European study indicates that patients with T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia may respond well to induction chemotherapy using fludarabine, mitoxantrone and cyclophosphamide, followed by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Measuring urinary levels of prostate cancer antigen 3 (PSA3) may be more accurate than PSA testing in detecting prostate cancer, but evidence is…
By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Surgical resection of isolated pulmonary metastases can prolong overall survival in breast cancer patients, German researchers say. “On the basis…