Genitourinary Cancer
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Poor-prognosis cancers linked to highest suicide risk in first year
Pancreatic and lung cancer patients had high rates of suicide in comparison to the general population, while breast and prostate cancer patients...
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mRNA-based urine test performs well in bladder cancer surveillance
The mRNA test had a sensitivity of 74% and negative predictive value of 93%, superior to what was observed with fluorescence in situ hybridization...
Case-Based Review
Urothelial Carcinoma: Muscle-Invasive and Metastatic Disease
Bladder cancer is by far the most common cancer of the urinary system. Worldwide, approximately 450,000 new cases are diagnosed and 165,000 deaths...
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‘Optimal’ pazopanib levels linked to lower toxicity in RCC patients
Therapeutic drug monitoring may help optimize dosing and limit toxicity, though larger studies are needed to validate this small, retrospective...
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Cytoreductive nephrectomy may benefit RCC patients with brain mets
In an analysis of SEER data, 2-year survival was 52% and 14%, respectively, for RCC patients with brain-only metastases who did and did not...
Case-Based Review
Current Therapeutic Approaches to Renal Cell Carcinoma
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Lipoprotein ratio linked to poor survival in metastatic RCC
In a retrospective study of data on 287 metastatic RCC patients who underwent cytoreductive nephrectomy, the ratio of apolipoproteins B and A1 was...
Case-Based Review
Metastatic Prostate Cancer: A Case Study
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RCC strongly linked to melanoma, and vice versa
Clinicians need to be vigilant for RCCs in melanoma patients, and for melanomas in RCC patients.