Oncology
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Three Glargine Studies Find No Link to Cancer
Major Finding: When comparing glargine to other insulins, the relative risks for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer never exceeded 1.6, and...
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Aspirin Found to Protect Against Melanoma
Major Finding: Postmenopausal women who reported using aspirin regularly at baseline went on to have an 11%-30% reduction in the risk for...
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SLN-Negative Breast Cancer Has Low Regional Recurrence
Major Finding: The 3-year cumulative incidence rate for regional recurrence of SLN-negative early-stage breast cancer was 0.003 and the rate at 5...
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Vismodegib Continues to Prove BCC Effectiveness
Major Finding: In the first trial, the response rate for vismodegib-treated patients was 30% for the metastatic group and 43% for the locally...
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Paclitaxel Matches New Drugs as First-Line Breast Cancer Therapy
Major Finding: With a median follow-up of 12 months, progression-free survival was 10.6 months with paclitaxel, which was comparable to nab-...
Conference Coverage
Stanford Experience Shows Long Metastatic BCC Survival
Major Finding: The median overall survival from the time of diagnosis of metastatic basal cell carcinoma was 7.8 years in a single-center series,...
Conference Coverage
Hodgkin's Survivors Face High Breast Cancer Risk
Major Finding: Nearly a third (30%) of females treated with chest radiation for Hodgkin’s lymphoma was diagnosed with breast cancer by age 50.Data...
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Screening Colonoscopy Can Benefit Selected Elderly People
Major Finding: Colonoscopy detected carcinoma in 9% of people 76-85 years old who never previously underwent colonoscopy.Data Source: Data came...