During a recent PW Podcast episode, we spoke with Andrea Wilson Woods, President, Founder, and Founding Director of Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association. Following is a summary of that interview: <div...
Read More“Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy provides valuable staging information—determining whether cutaneous melanoma has metastasized to regional lymph nodes—that can be used by clinicians to make informed management recommendations,...
Read MoreDuring a recent PW Podcast episode, we spoke with Lisa Mathew, MD, a gastroenterologist at South Denver Gastroenterology in Colorado. Following is a summary of that interview: What do patients and physicians need to know about...
Read MoreFor patients with cancer, obesity is associated with worse overall and cancer-specific mortality, according to a review published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers conducted a systematic literature review to examine the...
Read MoreCaregivers of childhood cancer survivors are experiencing changes to medical care, financial disruptions, and emotional distress due to COVID-19, according to a study published in Pediatric Blood & Cancer. Investigators...
Read MoreA s a palliative care doctor in NYC during the beginning of the pandemic, my typical greeting response of “I’m fine” was speedily replaced with “I’m hanging in there.” It seemed slightly less false (because who’s really “fine”...
Read MoreCabozantinib is more effective than two similar drugs, as well as the current standard treatment, in extending survival in patients with metastatic papillary kidney cancer, according to a study published in the Lancet. With...
Read MoreBlack patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at an earlier disease stage and have better liver function at the time of diagnosis when compared with non-Black patients, according to...
Read More“Most patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection do not know that they currently have or have had the infection,” explains Andrew S. Artz, MD, MS. “In patients whose immune systems are weakened—for example, due to...
Read MoreO ver the course of my 45 or so years in the business, I have noticed that many patient charts contain errors. I’ve never stopped to count them, but some investigators at five leading academic centers recently did. Of 22,889...
Read MoreAspirin use may improve survival for bladder and breast cancer, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers investigated the association of aspirin use with the risk for developing new cancers, as well as...
Read MoreA considerable proportion of cancer deaths are attributable to cigarette smoking, with variation across regions, according to a study published in Cancer Causes & Control. Investigators estimated smoking-related...
Read MoreThe omission of radiotherapy (RT) does not affect overall survival at 10 years after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for older women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, according to a study that examined the impact of...
Read MoreAn online tool (RSClin) incorporating clinicalpathologic data and results of the 21-gene recurrent score (RS) successfully estimated distant recurrence (DR) risk and adjuvant chemotherapy benefit in women with hormone...
Read MoreA subgroup of patients participating in the randomized phase III NALA study of neratinib plus capecitabine (N+C) versus lapatinib plus capecitabine (L+C) in patients with third-line HER2+ metastatic breast cancer demonstrated...
Read MorePregnancy is less likely after prior breast cancer (BC) diagnosis, according to a systematic literature review that examined pregnancy after BC, fetal and obstetrical outcomes, disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival...
Read MoreAnswer: The way they are taught is out of date. A guy named Steven Levitt is tired of helping his teenagers with their quadratic equations and imaginary zeros. Because they will never use these skills again, he thinks teaching...
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“Head and neck cancer (HNC) includes a heterogeneous group of fast-growing tumors,” explains...
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