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Oxaliplatin add-on not recommended for elderly with colon cancer
A study of elderly patients with metastatic colon cancer shows no benefit and an increased neuropathy risk.
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Breast cancer treatment worse for incarcerated patients
Breast cancer patients who are incarcerated at diagnosis often do not get neoadjuvant therapy and face delays in upfront surgery, study finds.
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Seventeen percent of breast cancer patients reclassified after risk score reassessment
Combining clinical risk factors with a polygenic risk score accounting for ancestral background substantially improves breast cancer risk...
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Fitusiran: Great ‘leap forward’ in hemophilia treatment
Cost will be a major consideration if fitusiran is approved for the U.S. market.
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Elevated mortality seen in Merkel cell patients from rural areas
“There is a need for us to further interrogate what the causes are for this disparity in care between rural and urban centers,” Dr. Bryan T....
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Cardiovascular effects of breast cancer treatment vary based on weight, menopausal status
The risk of dyslipidemia was higher in postmenopausal aromatase inhibitors users and lower in postmenopausal tamoxifen users, compared with...
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DLBCL: PFS but no OS benefit with polatuzumab-vedotin add-on
Pending additional follow-up for overall survival, is the extra cost worth it?
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Telemedicine helps SCD patients survive COVID, but more need access
The second COVID-19 wave brought zero deaths and fewer complicated hospitalizations at the largest U.S. adult sickle cell disease center, but care...
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Cancer risk tied to some manufactured foods
The results of three European studies support the removal of trans fatty acids, nitrites, and nitrates from food products.
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Breast cancer-related musculoskeletal pain alleviated with acupuncture
A new study shows that electroacupuncture and auricular acupuncture may relieve debilitating chronic musculoskeletal pain for breast cancer...
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Sacituzumab govitecan effective in Black mTNBC patients
Black women may have outcomes comparable to those of other women when given sacituzumab govitecan for the treatment of metastatic TNBC, suggests...