Oncology
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USPSTF releases updated recommendations on skin cancer screening
“Our recommendations are for patients who present to primary care without symptoms, and after a careful assessment of benefit and harms, we didn’t...
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Relapsed CLL: New approaches prolong survival
Venetoclax, with a second-generation generation Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, can lead patients with relapsed CLL back to remission.
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Cancer, heart disease vaccines may be ready by 2030, Moderna says
The announcement is yet another sign of what many are calling “the golden age” of vaccine development.
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Price of CLL Rx rises, despite competition
The cost of ibrutinib keeps going up, in spite of newer treatment options.
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Survival gains after surgery for small pancreatic NETs?
With many patients potentially missing from the data, “it is very difficult to know that patients with tumors 1.1-2.0 cm in size are really...
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New colorectal cancer data reveal troubling trends
It has become increasingly apparent that the age profile and associated risks for this cancer are rapidly changing.
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Healthy lifestyle mitigates effect of childhood cancer
Independent of prior treatment exposures and sociodemographic factors, a healthy lifestyle and absence of hypertension or diabetes were each...
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First target doesn’t affect survival in NSCLC with brain metastases
Patient outcomes didn’t hinge on whether oncologists treated the brain or lung first.
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Type of insurance linked to length of survival after lung surgery
Having public or a combination of public and private insurance was associated with worse 10-year overall survival.
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Outpatient costs top drug costs in some insured, working women with breast cancer
‘Women think they are insured until they get a diagnosis,’ says the author of a new paper.