Oncology
News
President Trump calls for end to HIV/AIDS, pediatric cancer
Health care was addressed in speech more focused on immigration, a nod to unity, honoring vets, and featuring Congressional women dressed in white...
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Rural pediatric patients face unique cancer care challenges
Extended travel time and inadequate local emergency care weigh heavily on families of pediatric cancer patients, a small study has found.
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Positive FIT test should prompt colonoscopy
Retrospective study in a Korean population shows increased risk even if a colonoscopy was recently performed; backs up U.S. Multi-Society Task...
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Lifetime cost of tobacco use tops $1.9 million per smoker
Connecticut’s estimated cost is more than twice as high as Georgia’s.
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BMI changes in adolescence linked to later cancer risk
Adiposity changes during the peripubertal period may have more of an impact on ovarian cancer risk than adiposity changes during adulthood.
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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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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Endoscopic submucosal dissection
Uptake and training in the United States have been slow, although the technique is recommended as safe and cost effective.
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Negative colonoscopy linked with lower risk for more than 10 years
Individuals at average risk of colorectal cancer who have a negative colonoscopy show significantly lower rates of cancer for more than 10 years,...
Conference Coverage
Phase 3 data support apixaban for cancer-associated VTE
The rate of major bleeding was similar with apixaban and dalteparin.
Conference Coverage
NCI director: Data failures cost lives
SAN DIEGO – Too many patients die because numbers aren’t aggregated or shared, Dr. Ned Sharpless said at the ASH meeting.