Oncologist Sued for Double-Billing; Pharmacy Deserts; 'She Loved Scotch and Pizza' News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Aug 30, 2024
Adjunctive Cannabis Extract Improves Nausea-Vomiting Prevention in Cancer Patients Troublesome side effects, barriers to access could limit future availability Aug 21, 2024
Celebrity Cancers Stoking Fear? Cisplatin Shortage Ends; Setback for Anti-TIGIT News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jul 05, 2024
Neuromuscular Training Decreased Incidence of Chemo-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Incidence significantly reduced with two types of exercises versus usual care Jul 01, 2024
Oncology Drug Shortages Persist, but Continue to Evolve Supply-chain issues, unrealistically low prices for generics, hoarding, other factors to blame Jun 26, 2024
Docetaxel Tied to Less Taxane Neuropathy in Black Breast Cancer Patients Dose-limiting toxicity has been linked with worse outcomes specifically in this population Jun 05, 2024
Ending Oncology's Toxic Relationship With High Chemotherapy Doses Optimizing doses can improve patient outcomes and lower costs May 10, 2024
Neoadjuvant Chemo-IO Promising in Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Combination associated with favorable R0 resection and survival rates Apr 10, 2024
Chemo and Heart Disease; Flawed Lung Cancer Screening; New Vax Recommendations News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Mar 29, 2024
Overdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year Treatment can be deadly for enzyme-deficient patients; NCCN doesn't call for preemptive testing Mar 26, 2024
Long-Term Breast Cancer Risk in Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors Treated With Doxorubicin Dose-dependent increase regardless of age at treatment or chest radiotherapy Mar 19, 2024
In TNBC, Pathologic Complete Response May Vary by Race/Ethnicity Compared with white women, Black women less likely and Hispanic women more likely to achieve pCR Feb 27, 2024
Mixed Results in Advanced Gastric/GEJ Cancer With Add-On Fruquintinib Significant improvement in PFS, but not OS, versus chemo alone in the second-line setting Feb 07, 2024
Patients and Doctors Push Back Against the Harsh Side Effects of Cancer Drugs "If the patients are not taking the drug, then it's not going to work" Feb 06, 2024
Sequential Therapy Boosts Survival in Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Phase II study shows a 32% reduced risk of death compared with standard treatment Jan 31, 2024
Peripheral IV Access for Chemo Better Than Central Lines in Testicular Cancer? Retrospective study suggests the technique results in fewer complications, thrombotic events Jan 30, 2024
When a Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Causes Cancer The potential benefits of CAR T-cell therapies still far outweigh the risks Jan 27, 2024
Lessons From the Chemotherapy Shortages: Invest in Generics We need more sustainable solutions to ensure treatment access Dec 31, 2023
How Vital Drug Shortages Happen "Fundamentally, there's something broken in how the market works" Sep 11, 2023 video
Standard Lymphoma Therapies Tied to Higher Risk for New Malignancies Increased risk for non-melanoma skin cancer, MDS, AML versus the general population Sep 09, 2023
How the Chemotherapy Shortage Is Affecting Frontline Clinicians "How are we here in 2023 having some of these discussions?" bemoans gynecologic cancer expert Sep 08, 2023 video
Cancer Therapy's Lower-Limb Blood Clots Better Treated With Long Anticoagulation A year of DOAC therapy did not result in significantly more bleeds in ONCO DVT trial Aug 29, 2023
Some NSCLC Patients on ICI Therapy Fare Worse With Proton Pump Inhibitor Use But PFS, OS longer with ICIs plus chemotherapy among patients treated with PPIs Jul 11, 2023
Primary Surgery vs Radiation in Oropharyngeal Cancer: Does One Come Out a Winner? Higher short-term dysphagia risk with surgery, but RT/CRT had worse 5-year OS Jul 09, 2023
WHO Links Sweetener to Cancer; Younger-Age CRC Risk; PCOS and Ovarian Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jun 29, 2023
New Ovarian Cancer Drug Extends Survival in Resistant Disease "Practice changing" findings for tough-to-treat patient population Jun 04, 2023
Chemo-Free Approach Works in Subset of Patients With HER2+ Early Breast Cancer Impressive 3-year invasive DFS seen with adaptive response strategy using FDG-PET Jun 03, 2023
Return of Rule Nixing Delivery of Rx Drugs to Medicare Patients Drawing Docs' Ire "It is endangering the lives of the oldest and sickest Americans," oncology group says May 18, 2023
Even at Stage IV, Immunotherapy Helps in Pancreatic Cancer Small but clear boost to overall survival May 07, 2023
Implanted Ultrasound Device Opening Blood-Brain Barrier Promising in Brain Tumors Device allows delivery of more potent chemotherapies to patients with glioblastomas May 03, 2023
HIPEC With Mitomycin C Reduces Locoregional Recurrence in High-Risk Colon Cancer No increase in adverse events or toxicity versus surgery alone Apr 26, 2023
Manufacturer's Troponin Reference Values Don't Apply to Kids Different thresholds for myocardial injury suggested for pediatric patients Apr 21, 2023
Taxane, Anthracycline Combo Most Effective in Reducing Breast Cancer Recurrence Chemotherapy regimens with higher cumulative dose provide greatest benefit Apr 14, 2023
Atorvastatin Tied to Cardioprotection for Lymphoma Patients on Anthracyclines STOP-CA deemed "an impactful study that will lead to more prescription of statins in patients." Mar 04, 2023
Exercise During Chemo Shows Benefits for Cardiorespiratory Fitness However, patients who exercise after chemo also ultimately see benefits too Nov 21, 2022
Treatment De-Escalation Shows Promise in Testicular Cancer Early trial misses primary PFS endpoint, but "favorable" outcomes seen nonetheless Nov 03, 2022
Study: U.S. Chemo Regimen for Ewing Sarcoma Should Be International Standard Europe and other countries have already followed suit Nov 01, 2022
Hand Cooling, Compression Both Effective for Nerve Pain in Breast Cancer But access, cost, and tolerability may favor the latter option, said researcher Sep 14, 2022
10-Year Follow-Up Confirms Benefit of Chemoradiotherapy in MIBC Patients Findings "supported a change in clinical practice" Sep 01, 2022
Hearing Loss Plagues Cancer Survivors No Matter the Type of Chemo Ototoxicity reported in more than half of study patients who got platinum, taxanes, or both Aug 03, 2022
