April 23rd 2012
Monitoring bone health and ensuring adequate calcium and vitamin D intake in postmenopausal women who are taking exemestane for the primary prevention of breast cancer is essential.
April 13th 2012
Adding oxaliplatin to conventional chemotherapy increases survival in patients with advanced colon cancer in a broad range of community practice settings.
April 11th 2012
Being newly diagnosed with lung or colorectal cancer is often not sufficient to motivate cigarette smokers to quit.
April 4th 2012
Patients who undergo chemotherapy for breast cancer may develop fatigue that remains problematic long after they complete treatment.
March 28th 2012
Preoperative gemcitabine plus cisplatin followed by radical surgery is feasible, tolerable, and active in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.
March 27th 2012
Patients who are obese before being diagnosed with colorectal cancer are more likely to die of their disease than patients who are at a normal weight prediagnosis.
March 26th 2012
Researchers are reporting better survival rates in women with invasive EOC and germline mutations in the tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 than in patients who are noncarriers.
March 13th 2012
Acupuncture may help prevent xerostomia in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy and may also reduce symptom severity.
March 9th 2012
The burden of late complications after hematopoietic cell transplantation is high, and these late effects are associated with poor health and decreased functional status.
March 8th 2012
Combination therapy with everolimus and the octreotide LAR increases the median PFS in patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors associated with carcinoid syndrome.
March 7th 2012
A meta-analysis shows no apparent association between androgen deprivation therapy and cardiovascular events and death in men with prostate cancer.
February 29th 2012
New findings suggest that increased serum glucose levels may be a risk factor for colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women.
February 28th 2012
Annual prostate cancer screening does not decrease mortality from prostate cancer more than opportunistic screening.
February 20th 2012
New data show that roughly one-fifth of tamoxifen-treated male patients with breast cancer stop treatment early because of side effects.
February 16th 2012
Outpatient management in patients with cancer who have a low risk of severe febrile neutropenia is an effective and safe option to standard inpatient treatment.
February 15th 2012
The use of a navigation program for an urban safety net breast cancer population has only a moderate effect on the time from symptom presentation to treatment.
February 14th 2012
New data show that while men are diagnosed with breast cancer at a mere fraction of the rate of women, they tend to have more advanced disease at the time of diagnosis.
February 9th 2012
Radiation therapy added to androgen deprivation therapy prolongs overall survival in men with locally advanced or otherwise high-risk prostate cancer.
February 8th 2012
Patients who receive a solid organ transplant have about twice the risk of developing cancer as the general population.
February 7th 2012
Researchers are reporting favorable early results with the addition of bevacizumab to conventional chemoradiation in patients with advanced nasopharyngeal cancer.