News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: November 12, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with head and neck cancer have a significantly higher suicide rate than the general population.
Major finding: The st...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: November 10, 2015
Key clinical point: Survivors of childhood cancers, especially leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, and renal tumors, had a significantly increased risk of...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: November 2, 2015
Key clinical point: Risk of basal cell carcinoma was higher in women with late age of natural menopause and in women who used menopausal hormone t...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: November 2, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with high-risk GIST treated with adjuvant imatinib for 3 years had longer relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall sur...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: November 2, 2015
Key clinical point: After surgery for high-risk squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, the addition of lapatinib to chemoradiotherapy and a...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: November 2, 2015
Key clinical point: After a complex induction protocol, patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who underwent surgery vs. dose-esca...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: November 2, 2015
Late age of natural menopause and use of menopausal hormone therapy were associated with significantly increased risk of basal cell carcinoma, accordi...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 26, 2015
Key clinical point: A dose-intensive, multiagent regimen including dose-compressed cycles of ifosfamide/etoposide and vincristine/doxorubicin/cycl...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 26, 2015
Key clinical point: Mutations in genes involved in the PI3K/mTOR pathway, FGFR signaling, and cell cycle regulation had little impact on everolimu...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 26, 2015
Key clinical point: Distant metastasis-free survival and overall survival were similar in patients with stage III melanoma treated with intermitte...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 26, 2015
Key clinical point: High-radiation doses delivered to hepatic tumors were well tolerated and survival outcomes were comparable to surgical resecti...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 26, 2015
Key clinical point: Low BMI predicted worse overall and progression-free survival in patients with mCRC.
Major finding: Risks of death and diseas...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 22, 2015
Key clinical point: Compared with whites, black patients with localized prostate cancer received lower quality of care.
Major finding: Blacks wer...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 15, 2015
Expression of small nucleolar RNA SNORA42 was associated with poor overall and disease-free survival in patients with colorectal cancer.
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 15, 2015
After standard therapy failed, cladribine plus cytarabine was effective in treating patients with high-risk, organ-positive Langerhans cell histiocyto...
