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New Trial Deepens Debate Over Late-Preterm Steroids
The early cancellation of a trial in southern India suggests that the use of antenatal steroids to prevent respiratory complications after late-...
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No Routine Cancer Screening Option? New MCED Tests May Help
CanScan, MERCURY, and OncoSeek can detect a range of cancers and recognize the tissue of origin with high accuracy.
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Ovarian Cancer: Another Promising Target for Liquid Biopsy
A test under development “looks very sensitive for detecting ovarian cancer early.”
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Repeat MCED Testing May ID Early-Stage and Unscreened Cancers
Eight of 26 patients with cancer signals detected through MCED had cancer.
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Do Tumor-infiltrating Lymphocytes Predict Better Breast Cancer Outcomes?
A new study evaluates whether TILs can identify a subset of patients with triple-negative breast cancer with a very low risk of cancer recurrence...
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Polygenic Risk Scores Improve Breast Cancer Screening
Researchers examine how well polygenic risk scores predict a person's risk for any breast cancer as well as invasive, in situ, and bilateral at...
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Money, Ethnicity, and Access Linked to Cervical Cancer Disparities
An online analytic tool provides visual evidence of the geographic and demographic disparities in incident and recurrent/metastatic cervical...
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Women’s Cancers: Clinicians Research, Advise on Sexual Dysfunction
New research highlights the importance of discussing risks of sexual dysfunction in patients with women’s cancers.
From the Journals
Few Childhood Cancer Survivors Get Recommended Screenings
‘As many as four out of five of these survivors will develop a serious or life-threatening late effect of their cancer therapy by age 45,’ the...
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Weight Loss in Later-Life Women: More Than Diet, Exercise
Aging in older women, more than menopause alone, can lead to weight gain that is often not manageable with exercise and diet.
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Risk for Preterm Birth Stops Maternal RSV Vaccine Trial
This new vaccine candidate resulted in increased preterm birth and a nonsignificant increase in neonatal death.