A Patient Care App Diagnosed Me With Cancer No one should receive a serious diagnosis this way -- not even a doctor like myself Jul 16, 2021
Safety Concerns Turn FDA Panel Thumbs Down for Novel CKD-Anemia Drug Advisory committee rejected oral anemia drug for dialysis and non-dialysis patient populations Jul 16, 2021
Keytruda Before, After Surgery Improves Outcome in TNBC Results from KEYNOTE-522 show "practice-changing" impact on EFS Jul 15, 2021
'Acceptable' Lead in Drinking Water May Still Be Harmful to Patients With CKD No safe amount of lead in water for those with kidney disease, researchers warn Jul 15, 2021
Raise a Glass? Study Tallies Cancer Cases From Booze Heavy drinking habits accounted for about half of new alcohol-associated cases Jul 13, 2021
Juul Bought Out Medical Journal for $51K E-cig maker sponsored nearly a dozen studies, took over journal as it awaits FDA ruling Jul 13, 2021
Did Getting a Colonoscopy Lead to Cleaner Living? Results varied by severity of screening findings, researchers found Jul 13, 2021
Support for MRI-Targeted Biopsy in Prostate Cancer Screening Large Swedish study showed the approach cut overdiagnosis, unnecessary biopsies Jul 09, 2021
Empathy: The Most Critical Skill in Medicine Caring for a patient means putting yourself in their shoes Jul 09, 2021 podcast
Response Soars With Anti-PD-1 Drug for HER2-Positive Stomach Cancer Almost 50% relative increase in ORR with pembrolizumab plus trastuzumab and chemotherapy Jul 08, 2021
Could Docetaxel Have Role in Unfavorable-Risk Prostate Cancer? Use of chemo reduced radiation-induced cancers, and may prolong OS in low-PSA subgroup Jul 07, 2021
PD-1 Inhibitor Boosts Survival in Treated Esophageal Cancer Benefit with China-developed tislelizumab in all patients and EU-North American subgroup Jul 06, 2021
Infusion Centers or EDs for Sickle Cell Crises? Adults with SCD treated in infusion centers had improved outcomes in three key measures Jul 06, 2021
COVID Surges Emerge; FDA Warns About Chantix; Lions, Tigers, Bears Get Vaxxed A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Jul 06, 2021
Woman Loses 6-Year Battle With Mouth Tumor Rare ameloblastoma rapidly recurs and metastasizes despite numerous radical excisions Jul 04, 2021
Are Antibiotics Linked to Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer? With cases increasing globally, researchers look to these commonly used drugs Jul 03, 2021
IVF Babies at No Increased Risk of Childhood Cancers No associations seen with intracytoplasmic sperm injection or frozen embryo transfer, study found Jul 02, 2021
House Members Argue for Puerto Rico Coal Plant Shutdown Plant is releasing toxic coal ash, sickening the nearby community, lawmakers and witnesses say Jul 01, 2021
'Clinically Meaningful' Survival Gain in Neuroendocrine Tumors Near 1-year improvement with radionuclide agent misses statistical significance Jul 01, 2021
Adjuvant Combo Boosts Survival in Resected Pancreatic Cancer Four-month gain in OS with the addition of nab-paclitaxel to gemcitabine Jun 30, 2021
LDCT Screening Linked to Lower Risk of Brain Mets in Lung Cancer This observed reduction in risk may be due to a less aggressive tumor biology, said study author Jun 28, 2021
Do 'Robots' Offer Any Clear Surgical Advantage? Review says no, and Vinay Prasad believes it's a sobering reflection on medical technology Jun 28, 2021 video
Adding PD-1 Inhibitor Shows Promise in Potentially Resectable HCC "Safe and successful conversion therapy" with hepatic arterial infusion chemo plus sintilimab Jun 28, 2021
Ethics Consult: Help Family Have 'Savior Child' for Marrow Donation? MD/JD Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion Jun 25, 2021
Hold Off on Approving Anal Cancer Drug, Advisors Tell FDA ODAC recommends deferring approval of new PD-1 inhibitor until confirmatory trial results are in Jun 24, 2021
No Survival Benefit With All-Oral Regimen for Relapsed/Refractory Myeloma Prolonging PFS a positive, as advances make OS improvement harder to achieve Jun 18, 2021
AI for Radiation Therapy Works, but Is it Fully Trusted? Most machine learning-generated plans selected over human plans in head-to-head comparison Jun 16, 2021
Start Thinking 'Cure'; One More Hug; Mortgages and Breast Cancer Survival News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jun 16, 2021
What's Guiding Prostate Cancer Care for Gay Men? Research specific to this group has only scratched the surface Jun 16, 2021
Fixed-Duration, All-Oral Regimen Slows CLL Progression Near-80% reduction in PFS hazard with ibrutinib-venetoclax versus obinutuzumab-chlorambucil Jun 16, 2021
The FDA Is Failing the American People The agency's recent decision to approve aducanumab offers more evidence of a broken system Jun 16, 2021
How CAR T-Cell Therapy Measures Up in Follicular Lymphoma Better response rates and survival with axicabtagene ciloleucel versus external control group Jun 15, 2021
Zanubrutinib Tops Ibrutinib in Relapsed or Refractory CLL Better overall response rate, less cardiotoxicity, with second-generation BTK inhibitor Jun 14, 2021
Tweaking Maintenance Options in Metastatic CRC Two studies move the needle, but no major breakthroughs Jun 11, 2021
Most Older Women Do Not Meet Criteria to Stop Cervical Cancer Screening Inadequate screening in middle age, lack of medical record documentation highlighted Jun 10, 2021
COVID Vaccine Protection; 'Until You Die From the Cancer'; What's Palliative Care? News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jun 10, 2021
Bispecific Antibody Active in NRG1-Positive Pancreatic Cancer Zenocutuzumab turns in promising results in early-phase trial involving multiple solid tumors Jun 10, 2021
Promising Early Data for Bladder-Sparing Cancer Treatment Bladder-intact DFS at 1 year nears 90% for muscle-invasive bladder cancer Jun 09, 2021
TRK Inhibitor Proves Beneficial in Primary CNS Tumors One-year OS rate with larotrectinib was 85% Jun 09, 2021
New Standard for Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer? Triplet regimen reduced the risk for radiographic progression or death, but OS data await Jun 09, 2021
