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
Olaparib-Abiraterone in Biomarker-Selected mCRPC Tops Each Agent Alone In small first-line trial, PFS more than doubled with combination Jan 26, 2024
Study Supports High-Dose RT, Long-Term ADT as Standard for High-Risk Prostate Cancer OS, PFS, cancer-specific survival all improved, with no increase in toxicity Jan 26, 2024
How Can Cancer Risk Be Cut in Communities Exposed to Toxins? Group outlines plan to bring the latest testing and treatment to medically underserved minorities Jan 25, 2024
Two-Stage Screening Strategy for Ovarian Cancer Continues to Show Progress Large study shows stage shift, high specificity, increasing PPV over 21 years Jan 24, 2024
CAR-T Investigation: FDA Leaders Detail Decision on Cancer Risk Warning Post-treatment cases grow to 22 since products' initial approvals Jan 24, 2024
Apalutamide Makes Its Case in Biochemically Recurrent Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer Intensification should be considered for high-risk patients, researchers say Jan 24, 2024
Liquid Biopsy Has Mixed Performance for Predicting Colon Cancer Outcomes Adjuvant chemo fails to move needle on DNA clearance, but dynamics predictive of DFS Jan 23, 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
FDA Calls for New Boxed Warning on All CAR-T Products Most serious warning would alert patients, providers on potential risk for secondary malignancies 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 番茄社区 staff Jan 23, 2024
Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease Likely Cost-Effective if Under $2 Million Lifetime reduction in acute pain episodes should offset high upfront costs of the therapy Jan 22, 2024
Big PFS Improvement in Highly Mutated CRC With Dual Immunotherapy Nivolumab/ipilimumab led to improvement in untreated MSI-H/dMMR disease versus chemo Jan 22, 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
Increase in Congenital Syphilis; Decrease in Breast Cancer Mortality Also in TTHealthWatch: long-term heart failure outcomes Jan 20, 2024 podcast
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
I Understand Why Defense Secretary Austin Kept His Prostate Cancer Quiet But opening up can help reduce stigma and inform the public Jan 18, 2024
FDA Clears AI-Powered Non-Invasive Skin Cancer Detector Intended for use in primary care, handheld device is first of its kind Jan 17, 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
Kate Middleton Hospitalized; Sen. Paul Urges Prison for Fauci; COVID Back in Class Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 番茄社区 staff 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
FDA Expands Pembrolizumab Approval in Cervical Cancer PD-1 inhibitor approved in combination with CRT for locally advanced disease Jan 16, 2024
Breast Cancer Mortality Reduced by 58% Over Past Four Decades Modeling study suggests advances in treatment played largest role, followed by screening Jan 16, 2024
Surgeon Dies in Plane Crash; Austin Released From Hospital; Animal Pandemic Spreads Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 番茄社区 staff 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
EGFR Inhibitors for Lung Cancer Tied to Increased Keratitis Risk Findings don't tell us to stop these drugs, researcher says, but should guide clinical decisions Jan 13, 2024
Short Shrift in Cancer Funding; Bypassing Familiar for Distant; Testing for BRCA News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jan 12, 2024
Exercise Improved Quality of Life for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients In trial, intervention group reported decreased pain, fatigue, shortness of breath Jan 12, 2024 video
No Laughing Matter: Nitrous Oxide for Transrectal Prostate Biopsy No effect on anxiety but significantly less patient-rated pain Jan 12, 2024
Hypofractionated Chemoradiation With Adaptive SABR Appeared Effective in NSCLC Dose of 70 Gy in 15 fractions showed favorable balance between safety and efficacy in small trial 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 番茄社区 staff Jan 12, 2024
Pirtobrutinib Shows Potential in Heavily Pretreated Follicular Lymphoma "Safety profile is one of the real advantages" of non-covalent BTK inhibitor, says panelist Jan 11, 2024 video
Novel Combination Active in Large B-Cell Lymphoma, Even After CAR-T But where mosunetuzumab/polatuzumab vedotin would fit among available options remains a question Jan 11, 2024 video
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
Trump-Era Conscience Rule Rescinded; Lloyd Austin's Cancer; Sinead O'Connor's Death Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 番茄社区 staff Jan 10, 2024
