A systematic review of 31 studies showed favorable results supporting the incorporation of a plant-based diet for men at risk for or diagnosed with prostate cancer. The findings were presented at the American Urological Association...
In this video, Jeramy Tabuzo, BSN, RN, OCN, discussed her study, presented at Oncology Nursing Society Congress 2022, on improving the verification process and administration polices for oral investigational chemotherapy/immunotherapy....
The expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act correlated with an increase in 2-year OS rates among patients newly diagnosed with cancer, according to study results published in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute....
Excess weight had a stronger impact on colorectal cancer risk than suggested in previous studies that did not consider cumulative lifetime exposure, according to a study published in JAMA Oncology. “Excess weight has long been recognized...
The body has 25 types of functional bitter taste receptors, but tasting is not their only function. Research has shown these receptors also exist in the gastrointestinal tract and on the cells of extra-oral organs. Although the function...
Biomarkers are components that may be present in biological samples and are related to specific diseases. Therefore, doctors can analyze biological samples from a patient to check their health condition or to monitor the progress of a...
DESTIN, Fla. — Physicians considering opioids for pain should perform manual calculations before consulting conversion charts and online calculators, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East. “[Morphine...
A theoretical framework shows how to increase the odds of identifying cancer-causing mutations before tumors take hold. Researchers demonstrate that only a few energetically favorable pathways are likely to lead to cancer.
Taking multiple prescription drugs and supplements can be fraught with risk, a new study suggests -- but it's hard for many people to part with their medications.
Older breast cancer survivors with cardiometabolic risk factors who restricted food intake to eight hours during the weekday, followed by 16 hours of fasting, lowered their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) after a few weeks,...
Older women with overweight who received cardiotoxic treatment for breast cancer saw a 15% relative CVD risk reduction after following an 8-week time-restricted eating plan, according to research published in JACC: CardioOncology. In a...
Individuals who identified as a sexual minority had lower odds of ever undergoing Pap testing compared with heterosexual individuals, according to a study published in Cancer. The findings appeared consistent across specific sexual...
Women with dense breast tissue and benign breast disease face an elevated risk of future breast cancer and could benefit from a tailored mammogram screening strategy, according to a large study.
Efforts to limit overuse of surveillance testing and treatment for low-risk nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer are needed to alleviate increasing costs of care, results of a population-based cohort study suggested. The study, published in...
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a malignant disease associated with a particularly high mortality rate. According to a new multicenter study, SCLC can be divided into several subgroups in terms of clinical behavior. These subtypes...
HD201, a trastuzumab biosimilar candidate, demonstrated equivalent efficacy to referent trastuzumab among patients with ERBB2-positive early breast cancer, according to phase 3 study results published in JAMA Oncology. The agents also...
Engineers are using a cell's surroundings to help biologists make more sense of gene expression information. Their new system could open the door to identifying rare cell types and choosing cancer treatment options with new precision.
Researchers find link between fertility issues and cancer risk, but say biological reason unclear Infertile men may be twice as likely to develop breast cancer than those without fertility issues, according to one of the largest ever...
Nice endorses Magtrace to use with probe, which work in similar way to metal detector Women with invasive breast cancer could be injected with a magnetic marker liquid to tell doctors if their disease has spread, according to a...
A deep-learning algorithm detected prostate lesions on multiparametric MRI and tracked lesions throughout the disease course among a subset of patients on active surveillance for prostate cancer, according to study results. The findings...
Julie Platt draws readers’ attention to the NHS’s screening programme that picks up bowel cancer early even when there are no symptoms Your article about Deborah James ( From stigma to spotlight: Deborah James puts focus on bowel cancer,...
Ovarian cancer kills 14,000 women in the United States every year. It's the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women, and it's so deadly, in part, because the disease is hard to catch in its early stages. Patients often don't...
Survivors of adolescent and young-adult acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia had lower long-term survival rates than the general population, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &...
Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma were six times more likely to have had cholelithiasis or cholecystitis in the year before diagnosis compared with the general population, according to data presented at Digestive Disease...
Nivolumab plus ipilimumab failed to extend OS compared with standard first-line chemotherapy for patients with unresctable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma whose tumor cells expressed PD-L1 at 1% or greater. An independent data...
Robot-assisted surgery used to perform bladder cancer removal and reconstruction enables patients to recover far more quickly and spend significantly (20 per cent) less time in hospital, concludes a new clinical trial.
In world-first trial, bladder cancer patients who had robotic surgery went home sooner and were less likely to be readmitted Patients having major abdominal operations should be offered the option of robotic surgery, doctors and...
American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy presented awards to three leaders in the fields. Society representatives presented the awards during the ASTCT Tandem Meetings | Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of...
None of us truly knows how we will behave when the inevitable gets ever closer. Facing it squarely might allow us to savour those final moments Deborah James has been dying in public for five years. Since her diagnosis of terminal bowel...
More than three weeks ago my doctor told me I had three weeks to live. How will I know when the big day finally looms? “Extended weeks,” said my palliative care doctor when I asked for my prognosis. “Extended?” cried my daughter. “What...
Philip D. Greenberg, MD, FAACR, has been elected American Association for Cancer Research president-elect for 2022-2023. He will become the association’s president at the AACR Annual Meeting in April 2023. “Dr. Greenberg is an...
Duke of Cambridge makes personal visit after ‘Bowelbabe’ told supporters she was receiving end-of-life care for her condition The Duke of Cambridge has presented podcast host Deborah James with a damehood at her family home after her...
In the second installment of a three-part video series, Heather Stefanski, MD, PhD, discusses the potential role of umbilical cord blood as a stem cell source. “Ethnically diverse patients are appropriate candidates for umbilical cord...
Between 2012 and 2019, esophageal cancer rates nearly doubled and prevalence of Barrett’s esophagus increased by 50% among adults aged 45 to 64 years, according to researchers. “Esophageal cancer, unfortunately, is often a silent killer...
Many melanoma patients presented with more advanced disease during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a small study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis on...
In early research, the oral medication zanubrutinib was found to help most patients with a slow-growing type of cancer known as marginal zone lymphoma.
A substantial proportion of patients with resected early non-small cell lung cancer who consented to an adjuvant therapy screening trial did not receive adequate lymph node dissection or adjuvant chemotherapy, according to study results....
Life-like organ replicas -- so-called 3D organoids -- are a good way to research disease processes. A team has now presented a kind of blueprint for such a model of the cervix.
Podcast presenter’s campaigning has met with praise and admiration from charities, experts and patients For more than five years, Deborah James, the presenter of the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C , has put a spotlight on a cancer...
Scientists have identified a subset of T cells that show up in great numbers in head and neck tumors, but not in similar tissues of the mouth inflamed by common ailments such as gum disease.
The damehood comes days after James moved to hospice care and as her fundraiser topped £3.5m for Cancer Research The cancer campaigner and podcaster Deborah James is to receive a damehood as her fundraiser for Cancer Research tops £3.5m....
The Human Cell Atlas sheds new light on the types and traits of immune cells that can be found in the human body, from developmental stages to adulthood.
Research could provide a new approach to treating an aggressive form of breast cancer. A study found that targeting the immune microenvironment in lymph nodes and tumors simultaneously led to long-term tumor remission in mice models of...
A study investigates the reasons for decreasing remission rates for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma treated with chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy).