NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recurrence after limited lung resection for small early-stage adenocarcinoma is three times more likely when the micropapillary component of the tumor is 5%…
Salim Ismail, Founding Executive Director, Singularity University, gives you the top 5 medical breakthroughs by 2020 that will revolutionize medicine in the healthcare sector. Read more about Salim…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to a historically pessimistic outlook, high-risk prostate cancer can be controlled with moderate high-dose radiation treatment and prolonged androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT). That…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An updated meta-analysis supports the strategy of giving intravesical chemotherapy (IVC) immediately after bladder tumor resection to reduce the risk of recurrence. “However,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Morbidity associated with inguinal lymphadenectomy in patients with penile carcinoma has declined, and is “reasonable” considering the potential benefit, a Brazilian team reports.…
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…
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…
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…