Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Boosts DFS in High-Risk Muscle Invasive Urothelial Cancer Benefit more than double with the immune checkpoint inhibitor compared with observation Jan 28, 2024
Cancer After Weight Loss; How Older Adults Use the Healthcare System Also in TTHealthWatch: PFAS guidelines for clinicians Jan 27, 2024 podcast
When a Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Causes Cancer The potential benefits of CAR T-cell therapies still far outweigh the risks Jan 27, 2024
No Cervical Cancer After HPV Vax; Brain Tumor Blood Test; Weight Loss and Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jan 26, 2024
Native Hawaiian Physician-Scientist Kekoa Taparra Is Making Waves One of the first Native Hawaiians with an MD, PhD is tackling Pacific Islander health disparities Jan 23, 2024
New FDA Boxed Warning; College Shaken by Suicides; More Get Flu Shot Than COVID Vax Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Jan 23, 2024
Neoadjuvant PD-1 Blockade Boosts pCR Rates in Early Esophageal Cancer But will the benefit extend to event-free and overall survival? Jan 22, 2024
New Standard for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma? Adding durvalumab and bevacizumab to transarterial chemoembolization almost doubles PFS Jan 21, 2024
HAIP Chemo Offers OS Advantage in Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma One in three trial patients still alive at 3 years after hepatic arterial infusion pump treatment Jan 20, 2024
Radioligand Gets Big Win in High-Grade GEP Neuroendocrine Tumors Lutetium dotatate reduces PFS risk by 72% in randomized trial Jan 20, 2024
Adding Immunotherapy, Anti-TIGIT in First Line Boosts OS in Esophageal Cancer But how much did investigational tiragolumab contribute to efficacy? Jan 19, 2024
Two Million Cancers; Casgevy OK'd for Thalassemia; Rectal Exams and Prostate Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jan 19, 2024
Long-Term Data Affirm First-Line Immunotherapy for Advanced Esophageal Cancer Three times as many patients alive at 5 years with chemo plus pembrolizumab Jan 19, 2024
Certain Cancer Survivors More Likely to Have Substance Use Disorder Prevalence particularly high in those recently diagnosed with head and neck and cervical cancers Jan 17, 2024
Cost of Genomic Testing on the Minds of Many Oncologists Insurance coverage, patient out-of-pocket costs key considerations for 80% of survey respondents Jan 16, 2024
Go Vegetarian to Avoid COVID? Making Dialysis Centers Work Better Also in TTHealthWatch: diagnostic errors among hospitalized patients Jan 13, 2024 podcast
Short Shrift in Cancer Funding; Bypassing Familiar for Distant; Testing for BRCA News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jan 12, 2024
COVID Vax and Blood Clots; Cancer Rise in Young Adults; Corpse-Abuse Charge Dropped Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Jan 12, 2024
Carvedilol No Help in Preventing Heart Failure in Childhood Cancer Survivors While safe, the results do not support use of the drug in anthracycline-exposed survivors Jan 10, 2024
Vaccine 'Promising' for Delaying Relapse in KRAS-Mutated Pancreatic Cancer, CRC T-cell response linked to 86% reduced risk of relapse, death Jan 09, 2024
Retinal Tumor Risk Incidentally Detected at 29 Weeks' Gestation Finding poses clinical and ethical dilemma for parents and clinicians Jan 08, 2024
Collaboration Between Local Oncologists and Academia Is Crucial Greater partnerships can optimize cancer care outcomes Jan 06, 2024
Language Minimizing Adverse Events; HPV and Thyroid Cancer; Ultrasound Bras News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jan 05, 2024
Study Assuages Fears of Pancreatic Cancer Risk With GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Researchers looked at 7-year patient data Jan 04, 2024
Futile Immunotherapy for Cancer Grows More Common Occurs most often at non-academic and low-volume centers Jan 04, 2024
Lessons From the Chemotherapy Shortages: Invest in Generics We need more sustainable solutions to ensure treatment access Dec 31, 2023
Cancer Patients Face Frightening Delays in Treatment Approvals "For them to take weeks -- up to months -- to provide an authorization is ridiculous" Dec 30, 2023
Another CAR-T Warning; 'Sweet' Cancer Test; 'Molecular Jackhammer' Blows Up Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Dec 28, 2023
Mind of the 'Maestro': Inside the Head of Leonard Bernstein Psychiatrist and concert pianist Richard Kogan, MD, on the great composer's complex inner life Dec 27, 2023
Significant Left Nasal Obstruction Finally Diagnosed After 2 Years Nonspecific presentation impedes early diagnosis of rare indolent tumor in older man Dec 26, 2023
Mammo Responsibility Ups Screening; Opioids for Cancer Pain? Ignored Signs of CRC News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Dec 21, 2023
Homelessness Tied to Worse Cancer Outcomes Among Veterans However, all-cause mortality rates in lung, colon cancer lower versus other healthcare settings Dec 21, 2023
Psilocybin May Help Ease Depression in Cancer Patients In small trial, half had early remission of depressive symptoms after psilocybin-assisted therapy Dec 18, 2023
National Database Study Finds Higher Risk for Barrett’s Esophagus in IBD But no greater chance of BE-tied malignancy for these patients Dec 16, 2023
FDA Approves New First-Line Standard of Care in Bladder Cancer Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab doubled survival as compared with chemotherapy Dec 15, 2023
Andre Braugher's Cancer Dx; Malignancies Rising in Younger Adults; Negative Trials News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Dec 14, 2023
FDA OKs Maintenance Option for High-Risk Neuroblastoma Eflornithine approved to reduce relapse risk in both kids and adults Dec 14, 2023
'Half-Matched' BMTs Effective in Severe Sickle Cell Disease High survival rates observed in patients not normally suitable for transplant Dec 13, 2023
Lenvatinib-Pembrolizumab Combo Misses Goal in First-Line HCC Trial Numerical advantages in OS, PFS fall short of statistical significance Dec 13, 2023
EUS-Guided Gastroenterostomy Better Option for Cancer-Related Duodenal Blockages However, technique and technology are not widespread Dec 08, 2023
