NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with unresected stage III non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are not candidates for chemoradiotherapy benefit from radiation therapy (RT) alone, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After resection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, chemotherapy with fluorouracil or gemcitabine reduces mortality by about a third, Taiwanese researchers have shown. On the other…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among several different DNA-based quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays for detecting a critical JAK2 mutation in myeloproliferative neoplasms, one stands out as…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s no evidence that starting treatment with the anti-obesity drug orlistat raises the likelihood of developing colorectal cancer, at least in the short…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The psychostimulant modafinil is no better than a placebo in improving fatigue, depression and cognitive function in patients with primary brain tumors (PBT),…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The addition of bevacizumab to adjuvant chemotherapy does not improve invasive disease-free rates in women after resection of breast cancer that’s negative for…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with unresectable primary spinal sarcoma may benefit from carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT), Japanese researchers say. Compared with proton…
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%…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a phase III, multinational study of patients with heavily pretreated metastatic breast cancer, adding sunitinib to capecitabine provided no benefit, and in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a phase III Italian study indicate that the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women who use hormone replacement therapy…
