(MedPage Today) -- Including a CDK4/6 inhibitor in adjuvant therapy significantly increased invasive disease-free survival (iDFS) in patients with high-risk early, hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer, a large randomized trial showed....
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(MedPage Today) -- Preoperative checkpoint inhibition led to deep responses in select patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with mostly human papillomavirus (HPV)-negative disease, a small, single-arm study found.
Among 29...
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(MedPage Today) -- Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients saw a significant survival benefit when treated with third-line sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy) rather than chemotherapy, phase III findings from the ASCENT trial showed.
The trial...
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(MedPage Today) -- Modern post-operative radiotherapy (PORT) failed to improve survival outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with completely resected tumors and mediastinal lymph node involvement, the randomized LungART trial...
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It relieves stress, reduces the risk of heart disease both in men and women, and lowers the risk of prostate cancer in men – but most importantly it is incredibly satisfying. However, these are not the only benefits of sex.
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A statue of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be built in her native Brooklyn, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. A legal trailblazer...
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Recently, a neighbor and friend of mine died. After her cancer was diagnosed as incurable, she was referred to hospice care, and family members traveled long distances to spend quality time with her during her last month of life. Her neighbors in...
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Artificial intelligence can be used to diagnose cancer, predict suicide, and assist in surgery. In all these cases, studies suggest AI outperforms human doctors in set tasks. But when something does go wrong, who is responsible?There’s no easy...
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(MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz
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(MedPage Today) -- Women with advanced, hormone receptor (HR)-positive cervical cancer lived more than twice as long without disease progression if they received the CDK inhibitor palbociclib in addition to hormonal therapy, a small randomized...
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(MedPage Today) -- Advanced or metastatic kidney cancer patients treated with the PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo) plus cabozantinib (Cabometyx) lived twice as long without disease progression compared to patients receiving an older...
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1. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at age 87, the court announced. She died of metastatic pancreatic cancer, after previously beating cancer four times. Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993, the second-ever...
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The pancreatic cancer that claimed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday at the age of 87 was the final chapter in a long battle with the disease.Her final year on the bench was punctuated with medical issues, but she publicly remained...
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(MedPage Today) -- Adjuvant trastuzumab (Herceptin) failed to demonstrate noninferiority versus trastuzumab plus chemotherapy for older patients with early HER2-positive breast cancer, but trastuzumab alone still warrants consideration for...
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CMS unveiled a final rule allowing Medicare to next year begin a test of bundled payment for radiation therapy. The rule also approves a kidney care model that encourages use of home-based treatments. Medscape Medical News
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AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) and Merck's (NYSE: MRK) drug Lynparza was approved for use as maintenance therapy in BRCA-positive, advanced ovarian cancer patients in 2018; on Friday, the healthcare companies unveiled long-term trial data that could...
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Over the past decade, cancers associated with obesity show some of the most troubling increases affecting young adults and adolescents.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 -- More than half of patients have experienced changes in their lung cancer treatment plan as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter published online Sept. 17 in JAMA Oncology.
Arielle Elkrief,...
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FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 -- Nearly 90,000 Americans between 15 and 39 years of age will be diagnosed with cancer this year and more than 9,200 will die, a new report projects.
One hematologist who deals with younger cancer patients said the shock of...
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FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 -- Many Americans at high risk for colon cancer don't know how often they need to have a screening colonoscopy, researchers say.
The report follows the recent death of actor Chadwick Boseman, who died Aug. 28 at age 43 after...
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