Despite recommendations for posttreatment surveillance in lung cancer patients, there is wide variability in the follow-up care that lung cancer patients receive. A recent study, led by senior author Leah Backhus, MD, MPH, Professor of…
(MedPage Today) -- Enrollment has begun in a first-of-its kind telehealth-based study that will evaluate a promising investigational therapy for selected patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. (The Ohio State University Comprehensive…
Pancreatic cancer is the deadliest form of cancer worldwide, mainly because the disease is often discovered late. Symptoms associated with these tumors are often non-specific, so patients and doctors do not immediately suspect cancer.…
Despite recommendations for posttreatment surveillance in lung cancer patients, there is wide variability in the follow-up care that lung cancer patients receive. A recent study, led by senior author Leah Backhus, MD, MPH, Professor of…
In a study of nearly 1,000 consecutive patients treated for lung cancer at Northwestern Medicine, researchers discovered only 35% would have qualified for screening, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening…
A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center shows that a specific subset of mutations in the POLE gene is strongly associated with durable responses to immunotherapy in patients with metastatic…
Medical reports written in technical terminology can pose challenges for patients. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has investigated how artificial intelligence can make CT findings easier to understand. In the study,…
The top authorities of U.S. cancer statistics will soon have to classify the sex of patients strictly as male, female, or unknown, a change scientists and advocates say will harm the health of transgender people, one of the nation's most…
During its annual October Breast Cancer Awareness campaign, Organic Remedies collected in-store donations from patients and donated a portion of the proceeds from select Organic Remedies medical marijuana products. The company presented a …
Doctors explore how fasting may help cancer patients by putting cells into "repair mode" during chemotherapy, potentially reducing side effects and improving treatment outcomes.
(MedPage Today) -- Only about a third of patients with lung cancer met U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening criteria, according to results from a cohort study.
In many aspects of our lives, we find meaning in the order in which events occur. We buy into myths about "middle child syndrome," talk of calm before storms, and consider it strange to start a meal with dessert.
A study found that Trump administration NIH grant cuts led to termination of 118 trials studying cancer, 97 studying infectious diseases and 140 testing new treatments.
When doctors biopsy and treat cancer may be just as important as how they treat it. New research from Erik Herzog, Ph.D., the Viktor Hamburger Distinguished Professor in biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis,…
When it opens its doors to patients on Dec. 1, City of Hope will be the first cancer specialty hospital in the county and the second of it's kind in California.
French scientists in a lab in Orleans are turning their attention to the potential of mRNA – molecules used to quickly develop Covid-19 vaccines – to help patients effectively fight cancerous tumours.