Patient & Survivor Care
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Outcomes with CDK4/6 Inhibitors Vary in BC
A large Italian study found real-world differences in short-term outcomes among first line CDK4/6 inhibitors palbociclib, ribociclib and...
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Breakthrough Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer Gets Green Light
The test’s approval could make it more likely that people get screened for and survive the disease.
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FDA Calls AstraZeneca’s NSCLC Trial Design Into Question
ODAC: A trial’s design makes it impossible to tell whether patients with resectable NSCLC tumors benefited from durvalumab before surgery, after...
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Which Patients With Early TNBC Can Avoid Chemotherapy?
Researchers examine breast cancer–specific survival at prespecified stromal TIL cutoffs in women with stage I TNBC who had undergone a lumpectomy...
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Baseline Bone Pain Predicts Survival in Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer
Researchers conduct a post hoc secondary analysis to examine the relationship between bone pain and overall survival.
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Greater Transparency of Oncologists’ Pharma Relationships Needed
Reducing industry payments to hematologists and oncologists could benefit patients, say experts.
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Is Immunotherapy Best for Unresectable HCC with Moderate Liver Dysfunction?
A new study compares outcomes following two paths of care for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Could total mesometrial resection become a new standard treatment for cervical cancer?
Study compares TMMR plus therapeutic lymph node dissection without adjuvant radiation versus standard treatment for early-stage and locally...
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‘Chemoresistance Can Be Reversed’: Toughest Cancers Targeted
New research “shows the importance of the tumor microenvironment and its properties in dictating how cancer progresses and responds to drug...
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Targeted Pancreatic Cancer Screening May Save Lives
High-risk individuals were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer compared with the general population, in a...
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Could an EHR Nudge Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies?
The reminder system reduced the rate of sentinel lymph node biopsies in older women with early-stage breast cancer.