Sarclisa Approved to Treat Patients with Advancing Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma is an incurable blood cancer that forms in the bone marrow. This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Sanofi’s Sarclisa...
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In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the body with a high degree of accuracy, according to an international team of researchers.
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New York – Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center fired a top executive for suggesting in Facebook comments that Trump supporters should infect each other with the Coronavirus.
Laura Krolczyk, the VP for external affairs at the cancer...
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Genetics researchers say a new approach could benefit all sorts of serious health conditions, and they're urging scientists to quickly pluck 'low hanging fruit' for the benefit of patients.
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The state’s refusal to expand Medicaid is causing poor women to miss out on lifesaving screenings, Eyal Press writes.
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- Administration of a therapeutic vaccine during chemotherapy led to tumor regression in a substantial proportion of patients with advanced human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive cervical cancer, a preliminary clinical trial...
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- Almost 30% of patients with advanced rare cancers had no disease progression for more than 6 months when treated with the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda), a phase II study found.
Results showed that 29...
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I am a physician, and I am scared. I am scared for my patients, my friends, my family, and most of all, I am scared for my colleagues. As an oncologist, I am not someone yet on the frontlines treating patients acutely diagnosed with COVID-19,...
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A new video shows exactly how the novel coronavirus attacks the lungs in people infected with COVID-19, and how it can eventually kill the host.
3D CT imagery usually used ahead of cancer surgeries has been applied to study lung inflammation in...
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Scientists aim to detecting cancer spread using soundwaves
When cancer spreads to other parts of the body, it can have a big impact on its environment, including causing the structure between cells (known as the extracellular matrix) to harden. ...
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- Cancer patients receiving care at a single center in Wuhan, China, were twice as likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 as the general population, according to researchers there.
Among more than 1,500 patients admitted to a...
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(MedPage Today) -- Study Authors: Christopher E. Comstock, Constantine Gatsonis, et al.; Anna N.A. Tosteson; Lisa A. Newman, Cheng-Har Yip, MBBS(Mal)
Target Audience and Goal Statement: Oncologists, radiologists, obstetricians/gynecologists
The...
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- Development of next-generation chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy just transitioned from Space Invaders to Pac-Man. (Penn Medicine)
Women who received cardiotoxic drugs for breast cancer had fewer hospital visits for...
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- Lenvatinib (Lenvima) plus pembrolizumab (Keytruda) showed "compelling efficacy" for advanced endometrial carcinoma, regardless of tumor microsatellite instability (MSI) status, findings from an international phase Ib/II trial...
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Conservative icon Rush Limbaugh shared an update on his health with his radio listeners on Friday as he is battling stage 4 lung cancer: "The chemo drugs are working."Limbaugh, who took several days off from his show, assured his audience, "I'm...
Related topics: Chemotherapy, Cancer, Lung Cancer
Screening is important for the early detection of cervical cancer, but rates were significantly affected, in some areas for years, following a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- While having an unprecedented impact on all aspects of the nation's healthcare system, the COVID-19 pandemic created unique circumstances and challenges for cancer care, according to authors of a review from the early U.S....
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Many basic and clinical researchers are testing the potential of a simple and efficient gene editing approach to study and correct disease-causing mutations for conditions ranging from blindness to cancer, but the technology is constrained by a...
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Scott Lear
Public Health, World
Approximately seven times more women will die from heart disease than breast cancer.
Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death for women throughout the world. Approximately seven times more women will die from...
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It's the 2 words Devon and Leah Still have wanted to say for 5 years ... and now it's finally here -- Leah's CANCER FREE!!! And, she tells TMZ Sports her next goal is to be PRESIDENT!! Of course, Leah's battle with neuroblastoma became a...
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