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Responses to an interview study demonstrated that patient education on palliative care led to better understanding of its benefits and greater utilization of these services.
Adjuvant cemiplimab could be a new standard of care for patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma at high risk of recurrence, according to Danny Rischin, MD.
Children with ALL who were overweight or obese at 2 or more time points had an increased risk of relapse and death.
In an average-risk colorectal cancer screening population, a blood-based circulating tumor DNA test is feasible.
References: Kishan AU, Sun Y, Tree AC, et al. Hypofractionated radiotherapy for prostate cancer (HYDRA): an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials in the MARCAP consortium ...
Surufatinib did not provide an overall survival (OS) benefit over placebo in patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) enrolled in a pair of phase 3 trials. However, there was a high ...
The cohorts had similar proportions of females (39% and 40%), non-White (6% vs 4%) and Hispanic (4% vs 1%) patients, those with newly-diagnosed disease (42% for both), and months post MM diagnosis ...
Among the included patients, 1359 (43.8%) had uncontrolled pain, and 1044 (33.6%) experienced high-impact pain. Patients with uncontrolled pain were nearly 10 times more likely to develop OUD ...
Researchers studied the progression-free and overall survival rates of patients with advanced melanoma after cessation of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.
Researchers evaluated an electronic health record-based intervention that identified patients with metastatic cancer for a multipronged approach to their in-hospital care.
HealthDay News — Rates of colorectal cancer detection through colonoscopy screening are similar for adults aged 45 to 49 years and 50 to 54 years, according to a research letter published online ...
A prognostic index can be used to identify patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer who can safely forgo adjuvant chemotherapy as well as patients who require ...