No DFS Benefit With Chemoradiation in Bladder Cancer Adjuvant combo reduces local recurrence after cystectomy Jan 13, 2016
Adding Hormonal Tx To Salvage RT Ups Prostate Ca Survival Metastasis, cancer-specific survival also reduced in high-risk disease Jan 11, 2016
Lower-Dose RT New Standard for Prostate Cancer? Non-inferiority demonstrated for 60 Gy versus 74 Gy Jan 09, 2016
Aspirin May Lower Risk of Lethal Prostate Cancer But confirmation needed before a firm recommendation can be made Jan 05, 2016
SEER Data Errors: NCI Looks To Avoid Repeats Results reassuring as SEER audit nears completion Dec 23, 2015
Slippery Slope: A Targeted Therapy That Misses the Mark? Afinitor racks up FDA approvals, but where is the evidence? Dec 13, 2015
Rheumatoid Factor Tied to Sjogren's Lymphoma Disease activity also contributed to blood cancer risk in Sjogren's syndrome Dec 02, 2015
Is SAMHSA to Blame for a Broken Mental Health System? Two members of Congress differ on how to fix a failing system Oct 09, 2015
'Failure to Communicate' Drives Misdiagnosis Electronic medical records also need to be improved, says Mark Graber, MD Oct 05, 2015
Teach Patients How to Communicate Symptoms Better Patients should learn the eight characteristics of a symptom Oct 01, 2015
Doctors Urged to Practice 'Conservative Diagnosis' And sharing cell phone numbers is a good idea Sep 29, 2015
Post-Op CT Scans May Improve Lung Cancer Survival 4-year survival rate up 12 percentage points in patients having scans Sep 28, 2015
'Too Toxic' Colorectal Cancer Drug Now OK'd FDA approves tipiracil-trifluridine combo, to be sold as Lonsurf Sep 22, 2015
Patient Registries See Promise and Challenges Ahead Physician-driven registries adapt to a changing health system Sep 11, 2015
Hybrid Academic-Community Cancer Centers Take Shape Emerging model takes cutting-edge oncology into the community Aug 31, 2015
Clear Health Costs: Having Insurance Doesn't Always Pay The case of the $1,700 mammogram Aug 26, 2015
Giving Patients Evidence-Based Reassurance In response to the Less-is-More series, here are five evidence-based tips for reassuring patients Aug 07, 2015
FDA Approves Drug for Basal Cell Carcinoma Sonidegib becomes second hedgehog inhibitor for locally advanced disease. Jul 24, 2015
Susan G. Komen Founder Steps Out of Spotlight Nancy Brinker says she won't forget her "promise" to the breast cancer community Jun 29, 2015
Viagra and Melanoma: Is There a Link? Perry Wilson, MD, gives his take on Viagra, Cialis, and skin cancer Jun 24, 2015 video
One Proteasome Inhibitor Tops Another in Relapsed Myeloma Progression-free survival doubled with carfilzomib versus bortezomib Jun 15, 2015
PFS Rises in Progressive Myeloma with Targeted Biologic Adding elotuzumab boosts median progression-free survival by almost 5 months. Jun 12, 2015
Bone Drugs Equal as Breast Cancer Therapies Little difference seen among bisphosphonates as cancer fighters. Jun 02, 2015
How ASCO'S First Clinical Trial -- TAPUR -- Came To Be ASCO's entry will evaluate off-label use of targeted agents Jun 02, 2015
ASCO: Gazyva Doubles Average Remission Time in NHL Obinutuzumab delays progression in rituximab-refractory indolent disease. May 31, 2015 video
Ibrance Delivers in Advanced Breast Ca Palbociclib-fulvestrant combo leads to better PFS as second-line therapy May 31, 2015 video
ASCO: Annual Meeting Emphasizes Advances, Challenges in Cancer Largest program to date highlights developments in breast cancer, other malignancies May 29, 2015
ASCO: Chemo-ADT Combo Still Winning in Prostate Cancer Yet another report of survival improvement with upfront docetaxel plus hormonal therapy. May 14, 2015
Antitibiotic-Chemo Combo Cuts Infection Risk in AML Incidence of Streptococcus viridans more than halved with prophylaxis. May 10, 2015
Injecting Opioid Tied to Blood Clotting Disorder Are most clinicians aware of this side effect of oxymorphone drug abuse? May 10, 2015
ACP Prefers Cervical Cytology Over DNA Screens for Young Women HPV testing in women under 30 could cause more harm than good, group says. Apr 30, 2015
Part 2: Oncologists Weigh In on PBS Cancer Documentary Six specialists share their impressions of Ken Burns' cancer opus. Apr 13, 2015
Brain Cancer: Did '60 Minutes' Report Raise False Hope? Glioblastoma virotherapy touted on CBS program is promising but preliminary. Mar 30, 2015 video
AAD: Frog Enzyme Clears Genital Warts Summaries of late-breaking research from the dermatology meeting. Mar 26, 2015
Frankie the Dog Fetches - and Finds Thyroid Cancer? Canine trained in cancer scent detection gives few false positives in early test. Mar 10, 2015
Seeds Top EBRT as Boost Tx in Prostate Cancer And other advances in prostate cancer care from the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Mar 03, 2015
HDAC Inhibitor OK'd for Multiple Myeloma Panobinostat targets histone deacetylases; first of its kind to win approval in myeloma. Feb 23, 2015
Predicting Death in Advanced Cancer Study offers clues to guide clinicians, families about end of life. Feb 10, 2015 video
CRC Regimens Give Survival Bump in Second Line Ramucirumab trial meets primary endpoint; famitinib offers respectable disease control rate. Jan 18, 2015 video