Oncology
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Risk for breast cancer recurrence persists past 30 years
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One-quarter of lung cancer patients alive at 5 years
“If you look back, the 5-year survival rate has been very slowly eking up at about 1% over the years.”
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Exercise reduces arm and shoulder problems after breast cancer surgery
Study provides the best quality evidence to date in support of early exercise for women at high risk of shoulder problems after breast cancer...
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AI: Skin of color underrepresented in datasets used to identify skin cancer
“There was massive underrepresentation of skin lesion images from darker-skinned populations,” the authors wrote.
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Surgery offers best chance in cancer but needs more ‘support’
“High-quality surgery remains the best chance to cure solid cancer when diagnosed early.”
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Shock, disbelief as NCCN changes prostate cancer guidance
“To suggest for a millisecond that active surveillance isn’t the preferred method for low-risk men is bizarre thinking ... Is this 1980?”
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Substantial declines in mortality for most cancers
“The cancer mortality rate has reduced considerably since 1971 overall and for most cancer sites because of improvements in prevention, early...
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New Mexico oncologist faces legal woes once again
The jury found that negligence by the oncologist was a proximate cause of the patient’s “lost chance to avoid the loss of his life and resulting...
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Urine test for prostate cancer signals amount of aggressive tumor
“PUR will also be useful for monitoring disease in men that do not currently require treatment and flag up the emergence” of aggressive disease....
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Gastric cancer prevalent in hereditary breast cancer patients
The risk of occult gastric cancer is highly prevalent in HLBC families with any type of CDH1 variant irrespective of a family history of gastric...
