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How Aspirin May Lower Risk for Colorectal Cancer
- Author:
- Helen Leask
These new data suggest that aspirin helps activate the immune system, which helps explain its potential chemopreventive effect in CRC.
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New Trials in Lung Cancer: Could Your Patients Benefit?
- Author:
- Helen Leask
A number of lung cancer trials are recruiting for NSCLC which is locally advanced, metastatic, and with or without mutations.
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New Trials in Prostate Cancer: Could Your Patient Benefit?
- Author:
- Helen Leask
Two new trials for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that involve remaining on therapy until disease progression...
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Combining Targeted Drugs and Radiation in Breast Cancer: What’s Safe?
- Author:
- Helen Leask
What is known and unknown about combining radiotherapy and systemic treatments in breast cancer?
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New Trials in Leukemia and Lymphoma: Could Your Patient Benefit?
- Author:
- Helen Leask
Adults with previously untreated follicular lymphoma or diffuse large B-cell lymphoma may be eligible to participate in one of three randomized,...
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New Trials in Gynecologic Cancers: Could Your Patient Benefit?
- Author:
- Helen Leask
Several trials are enrolling for patients with gynecologic cancers, which could be appropriate for a range of patients.
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Optimal Follow-up After Fertility-Sparing Cervical Cancer Surgery
- Author:
- Helen Leask
Investigators sought to find out if follow-up could be tailored to the patient’s risk for recurrence.
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Is there a link between esophageal risk and sleep habits?
- Author:
- Helen Leask
Too much or too little sleep, daytime naps, and other sleep patterns may increase the risk of developing esophageal cancer.
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Cervical screening often stops at 65, but should it?
- Author:
- Helen Leask
A new study is intended to provide a more solid foundation for the benefits and harms of cervical screening for women older than 65.
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Taking a break from TKIs unlikely to shorten survival
- Author:
- Helen Leask
The results of a new study showed that taking an occasional respite from TKI therapy had little impact on a patient’s survival.
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Could your patients benefit? New trials in lung cancer
- Author:
- Helen Leask
Patients with untreated advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can join one of these randomized, open-label, phase 3 studies.
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Cervical cancer rise in White women: A ‘canary in the coal mine’
- Author:
- Helen Leask
“If rising incidence is not for localized-stage disease, but for advanced stages, that means it’s attributable to lack of screening.”
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Could your patient benefit? New trials in lung cancer
- Author:
- Helen Leask
New lung cancer trials.
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Could your patients benefit? New trials in noncolorectal GI cancer
- Author:
- Helen Leask
Several new trials have launched.
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Pregnancy, breastfeeding, and more linked to lower CRC risk
- Author:
- Helen Leask
Interestingly, the reduced risk of CRC observed for pregnancy and breastfeeding only applied to proximal colon cancer.