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Management of hypertension in cancer patients being treated with VEGFIs
May 09, 2014
New cancer therapies, particularly agents that block vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling, have improved the outlook for patients with some cancers and are now used as a first line... Read More
Non-invasive focused ultrasound thermal therapy reduces pain from bone metastases
May 09, 2014
When cancer progresses and spreads to the bone, patients often suffer debilitating pain. Read More
Kaiser Permanente study finds radiation best treatment for a rare skin cancer
May 08, 2014
Radiation treatment can help reduce the recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer, while chemotherapy does not appear to have any impact on recurrence or survival... Read More
Mixed messages on DNA test a risk to bowel cancer screening, Australia
May 08, 2014
Cancer Council is urging GPs to encourage asymptomatic patients 50 or over to screen for bowel cancer with a faecal occult blood test (FOBT), which remains the gold standard for population... Read More
RPCI study confirms clinical benefit for interleukin-2 immunotherapy in patients with advanced kidney cancer
May 08, 2014
A retrospective study published online ahead of print in the medical journal Urology by a physician team from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) found that patients with metastatic kidney cancer... Read More
Esophageal cancer test identifies patients who are resistant to standard pre-surgical chemoradiation therapy
May 08, 2014
Castle Biosciences Inc. announced that data from two clinical validation studies of its DecisionDx-EC multi-biomarker test were reviewed in an oral presentation at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW)... Read More
Guidance offered by molecular tumor board in advanced cancer cases
May 08, 2014
With accelerating development of personalized cancer treatments matched to a patient's DNA sequencing, proponents say frontline physicians increasingly need help to maneuver through the complex... Read More
Cirrhosis patients benefit from liver cancer screening
May 08, 2014
Liver cancer survival rates could be improved if more people with cirrhosis are screened for tumors using inexpensive ultrasound scans and blood tests, according to a review by doctors at UT... Read More
Device captures complexity of living marrow in the laboratory
May 08, 2014
The latest organ-on-a-chip from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reproduces the structure, functions and cellular make-up of bone marrow, a complex tissue that until now... Read More
Study shows how ovarian cancer metabolism changes between early, late stages
May 08, 2014
A Rice University-led analysis of the metabolic profiles of hundreds of ovarian tumors has revealed a new test to determine whether ovarian cancer cells have the potential to metastasize, or spread... Read More
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