Advancing Health in Africa Rob Breiman, MD, discusses his public health work on the continent Oct 31, 2024 video
AI Colonoscopies: More Benign Lesion Removals, Potentially Higher Costs At scale, the benefits of AI-assisted colonoscopy may not always outweigh the costs Oct 31, 2024
Early Smoking Cessation After Cancer Diagnosis Tied to Better Survival Largest survival benefit observed in patients who entered a cessation program within 6 months Oct 31, 2024
'Converging' Evidence of Link Between Air Pollution and Breast Cancer Large cohort study showed cancer risk increased with exposure to fine particulate matter Oct 30, 2024
Low-Volume Bowel Prep Matches Standard for Inpatient Colonoscopy Patients also found MoviPrep to be more tolerable and were more willing to repeat it Oct 29, 2024
Blood Test for CRC Screening Lags Behind Other Options in Cost-Effectiveness Study Fewer cancers, cancer deaths prevented; higher cost per quality-year saved Oct 28, 2024
Precision Medicine Approach Shows Promise for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Median OS as high as 43 months with mutation-guided targeted agents plus immunotherapy Oct 25, 2024
Algorithm May Be Able to Predict HCC Risk in Advanced Chronic Liver Disease Easy to apply, uses parameters commonly measured in outpatient and inpatient settings Oct 25, 2024
Personalized Breast Cancer Treatment; Insights Into HPV in Men; Exercise and Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Oct 25, 2024
A Moral Code: Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine Three physicians face crossroads in patient care Oct 25, 2024 podcast
We Don't Always Know What's 'Best' for Our Patients Grappling with the illusion of patient autonomy Oct 25, 2024 podcast
Medicaid Expansion Linked to Better Survival in Aggressive Breast Cancer Study also showed that patients were more likely to receive timely treatment Oct 24, 2024
Three Cycles of Chemo Noninferior to Six for Rare Childhood Eye Cancer Three cycles could become the new standard for retinoblastoma, researchers say Oct 21, 2024
How Do Younger People Fare With Stool Tests for CRC Screening? Retrospective study answers questions raised in shift to screening at age 45 Oct 21, 2024
Novel Targeted Drug Approved for Stomach Cancers Zolbetuximab indicated alongside fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy Oct 18, 2024
Diet and Prostate Cancer; TTFields OK'd for NSCLC; Cancer Studies Retracted -- News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Oct 18, 2024
Drugmaker Pulls Trodelvy's Bladder Cancer Approval In confirmatory trial, antibody-drug conjugate failed to improve OS versus chemotherapy Oct 18, 2024
Pop Star Falls to His Death; Trump the 'Father of IVF'? Columbia Doc's Retractions Health news and commentary gathered by Ƶ staff Oct 17, 2024
Radioligand Shows Promise in Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer Odds of undetectable PSA at 48 weeks doubled with addition of Pluvicto Oct 16, 2024
Nivolumab Regimen Achieves Durable PFS in Advanced Hodgkin's Lymphoma May become "treatment of choice" over brentuximab vedotin for all disease stages Oct 16, 2024
Distant Recurrence Risk in Early Breast Cancer on the Decline Trials now enroll lower-risk women who get better treatment, analysis suggests Oct 15, 2024
'Personalized' Approach to RT for Bladder Cancer Promising but Challenging Low rates of toxicity and salvage cystectomy, with 2-year survival similar to surgery Oct 13, 2024
Marstacimab Gets FDA Nod for Hemophilia A or B Without Inhibitors First once-weekly subcutaneous prophylactic option for hemophilia B Oct 11, 2024
ACS Guidelines Expand Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility -- Is That a Good Thing? Debate highlights pros and cons of the new recommendation Oct 11, 2024
Study Details Perinatal Risks of Blood Cancers Diagnosed in Pregnancy Likelihood of severe maternal morbidity more than 20 times higher versus the general population Oct 11, 2024
Kate Middleton's Post-Chemo Debut; CDC Probes Cancer Cluster; 15M Adults Have ADHD Health news and commentary gathered by Ƶ staff Oct 11, 2024
PI3K Inhibitor Wins FDA Approval for Advanced Breast Cancer Adding inavolisib to palbociclib/fulvestrant more than doubled PFS in endocrine-resistant disease Oct 10, 2024
Frontline EGFR/VEGF Inhibition Slows Advanced EGFR-Positive Lung Cancer Osimertinib plus ramucirumab in first line shows 9-month PFS advantage over EGFR inhibition alone Oct 10, 2024
Let's Talk Breast Density; Cancer, Movies, and Music; Treatment-Induced Aging? News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Oct 10, 2024
Gene Therapy for Rare Brain Disease Effective, but Comes With Blood Cancer Risk 10% of patients in trials leading to eli-cel's approval developed MDS or AML Oct 09, 2024
Some Cancers Occur More Frequently in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Bladder, brain, and cervical cancer risks were higher in people with MS Oct 09, 2024
Risk of a Second Primary Melanoma Similar Regardless of Race/Ethnicity Differences in absolute, relative risk highlight complexities of analyzing rare events Oct 09, 2024
'The Office' Star Has Cancer; Trump Sent COVID Tests to Putin? 3% of Teens Are Trans Health news and commentary gathered by Ƶ staff Oct 09, 2024
Selective Role for Single-Agent Ipilimumab After Anti-PD-1 Failure in Melanoma Two-year survival in second line for patients with BRAF/NRAS wild-type tumors Oct 08, 2024
Checkpoint Inhibitors for Lung Cancer Linked to Pulmonary Embolism Study raises questions about how to assess patient risk, experts say Oct 08, 2024
Hormonal Contraception Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1 Carriers Higher risk for ever use, increasing duration of use but no increase in BRCA2 carriers Oct 07, 2024
Real World CAR T-Cell Therapy Outcomes 'Favorable' in Relapsed/Refractory Myeloma High overall response rate, even though many were ineligible for trial leading to drug's approval Oct 04, 2024
EBV Screening Tied to Lower Nasopharyngeal Cancer Mortality Risk Substantial drops in cancer-specific mortality affirmed in Chinese trial Oct 04, 2024
Good News for CAR-T Therapy; Liquid Biopsy Progress; Anti-Psychotic for Brain Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Oct 04, 2024
