With a wave of FDA approvals and promising clinical trials, treatment options for metastatic breast cancer are expanding fast. Amy Tiersten, MD, highlights the power of immunotherapies—especially checkpoint…
In this video, Sarah DiGeronimo, NP, and Sydney Smith, PharmD, both from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, discuss tips for the management of common side effects resulting from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The increased risk of breast cancer in women who received radiotherapy above the diaphragm for treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) persists for at…
Brachytherapy has become increasingly and commonly used in the United States to treat breast cancer after a lumpectomy. Although this therapy and the standard treatment, whole breast irradiation,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of estrogen and raloxifene seems to reduce menopausal symptoms and appears not to increase the risk of endometrial hyperplasia, researchers from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Getting a second opinion of surgical breast pathology often leads to changes that impact treatment in women with node-negative breast cancer or ductal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A randomized, multicenter trial has confirmed that myofascial physical therapy is an effective treatment for women with newly symptomatic interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Progression-free survival (PFS) is significantly longer in women with recurrent ovarian cancer when bevacizumab is added to chemotherapy, a multicenter team reports in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women older than age 30 are no more likely than younger women to develop hypothyroidism in pregnancy, suggest results a study from the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adjuvant tamoxifen after surgery and radiation reduces subsequent ipsilateral and contralateral breast cancers in women with estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS),…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a history of nephrolithiasis have higher fractional calcium absorption, but consuming adequate calcium reduces fractional absorption and may help prevent kidney…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Having weight loss surgery before having a child may be good for the mother but not necessarily the baby, hints research published this…
