Oncology
Conference Coverage
Gallstone disease may be a harbinger of pancreatic cancer
“If you have a patient who presents with gallstone disease and they have other symptoms, you should not necessarily attribute those symptoms just...
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NeoChemo preserves rectum in half of patients with rectal cancer
Resections used to be standard, but chemoradiation followed by consolidation chemo is associated with higher rates or organ preservation.
Opinion
A 64-year-old woman presents with a history of asymptomatic erythematous grouped papules on the right breast
A 64-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer presents with a 1-year history of asymptomatic erythematous grouped papules on the right...
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Clozapine and cancer risk in schizophrenia patients: New data
The clozapine-related risk increase was specific to hematological malignancies only.
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Experts urge stopping melanoma trial because of failure and harm
Immunotherapy combo fails in BRAF V60–mutated melanoma. Results suggest its time to abandon combination of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors with BRAF and MEK...
Conference Coverage
Quadruple-negative breast cancer associated with poorest outcomes
Patients lacking PD-L1 expression responded less to chemotherapy and had poor prognoses.
From the Journals
Mastectomy may not be necessary for young breast cancer patients
Treatment with mastectomy versus lumpectomy had no impact on survival, shows study.
From the Journals
Study shows link between dairy consumption and cancer
No association was found between dairy products and colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, or any other site-specific cancer.
Guidelines
Myositis guidelines aim to standardize adult and pediatric care
These are the first guidelines on how to manage adult and pediatric patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM).
Feature
Are ants the future of cancer detection?
Conference Coverage
Twenty years and counting: Tamoxifen’s lasting improvement in breast cancer
Study suggests long-term improvement for some women with breast cancer.