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The majority of cancer doctors, patients, and members of the general public support cutting health care costs by refusing to pay for drugs that don't improve survival or quality of life, according to results of a new study that will be presented by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago in early June (Abstract #6518). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-broad-rationing-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 15 May 2013 18:00:04 EST news287856294 Black women with breast cancer were found to be three times more likely than their white counterparts to delay treatment for more than 90 days—a time delay associated with increased deaths from the disease, according to a new study led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-breast-cancer-treatment-varies-patient-doctor.html Cancer Tue, 07 May 2013 12:37:05 EST news287149018 Geneva, Switzerland: Two large, landmark radiotherapy studies have shown that it is possible to treat cervical cancer effectively with high doses specifically adapted to each tumour, and with fewer serious side-effects to the surrounding normal organs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-landmark-success-image-guided-brachytherapy-cervical.html Cancer Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:02:09 EST news285660021 Mathematical prediction models are better than doctors at predicting the outcomes and responses of lung cancer patients to treatment, according to new research presented today (Saturday) at the 2nd Forum of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-mathematical-out-perform-doctors-cancer-patients.html Cancer Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:54:06 EST news285659630 Just like a massive iceberg jutting out of the ocean, many of cancer's genetic underpinnings remain hidden under the surface, impossible to predict or map from above. The foreboding shadows and shapes that appear on CT scans and MRIs – and even in the field that doctors see when they zoom in to look at cancer cells under a high-powered microscope – are just the tip of the iceberg. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-individualized-genomic-tailored-cancer-treatment.html Cancer Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:48:14 EST news284381187 Radiation oncologists at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are stressing the need for evidence-based, standardized guidelines on dietary recommendations for cancer patients—and with good reason. A new analysis revealed that online dietary recommendations for cancer patients, if even present on an institution's website, appear to be consistently inconsistent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cancer-websites-lack-nutritional-guidance.html Cancer Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:00:01 EST news283522728 New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is giving radiation oncologists who treat brain tumors a better understanding of how to preserve the brain's functions while still killing cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-toxicity-brain-cognition-cancer-patients.html Cancer Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:30:08 EST news282997801 What do cancer cells, weeds, and pathogens have in common? They all evolve resistance to the treatments that are supposed to eliminate them. However, researchers developing the next generation of antibiotics, herbicides, and anti-cancer therapeutics rarely come together to explore the common evolutionary principles at work across their different biological systems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-american-academy-microbiology-resistance.html Other Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:24:36 EST news281874267 EPFL researchers develop a tool for oncologists using the electrical signature of cancer cells to get just the right treatment dosage for each patient. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-dose-oncology.html Cancer Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:00:01 EST news281616375 Studies in animals have raised concerns that tumors may grow faster after the anticancer drug sunitinib is discontinued. But oncologists and physicists who collaborated to analyze data from the largest study of patients with kidney cancer convincingly demonstrate that such tumor acceleration does not occur in humans. The findings, publishing online on February 7th in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports, suggest that sunitinib does not cause lingering risks for patients after their treatment ends. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-reassuring-evidence-anticancer-drug-tumor.html Cancer Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:00:16 EST news279458805 An extensive genomic study of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma reinforces the challenges in treating the most aggressive forms of this disease. Contrary to expectations, the scientists found relatively few recurrent gene mutations—mutations that would suggest new targets for neuroblastoma treatment. Instead, say the researchers, they have now refocused on how neuroblastoma tumors evolve in response to medicine and other factors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-tumors-evolve-rapidly-childhood-cancer.html Genetics Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:00:27 EST news277901484 (HealthDay)—For patients with advanced lung cancer, prompting oncologists via e-mail successfully improved both the rate and timing of outpatient code status documentation in patients' electronic health records, according to research published online Jan. 2 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-e-mail-prompts-code-status-documentation.html Cancer Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:40:13 EST news276604806 (HealthDay)—Non-salaried oncologists report the potential for increased salaries with the administration of chemotherapy or growth factors for lung or colorectal cancer patients, according to a study published online Dec. 26 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-chemo-ups-income-non-salaried-oncologists.html Cancer Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:20:01 EST news276354371 A new survey shows that about one in four physicians uses social media daily or multiple times a day to scan or explore medical information, and 14 percent use social media each day to contribute new information, according to an oncologist at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-physicians-social-media-daily.html Health Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:07:33 EST news274352831 Medical physicists at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center are one step closer to bringing a new tumor-tracking technique into the clinic that delivers higher levels of radiation to moving tumors, while sparing healthy tissue in lung cancer patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-tumor-tracking-technique-outcomes-lung.html Cancer Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:59:04 EST news272563126 (HealthDay)—Definitional issues and non-acceptance of patients receiving chemotherapy are the barriers to earlier referral to specialized palliative care (SPC) by oncologists, according to a study published online Oct. 29 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-oncologists-specialized-palliative-late.html Cancer Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:20:01 EST news270831717 (HealthDay)—Even after cancer patients beat their disease, many still grapple with health issues related to their treatments, including cardiovascular and bone problems. But, survivors often say it's unclear which doctor to turn to for follow-up care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cancer-survivors-doctors.html Cancer Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:30:01 EST news266782971 Numerous studies have shown the powerful effect that exercise can have on cancer care and recovery. For patients who have gone through breast or colon cancer treatment, regular exercise has been found to reduce recurrence of the disease by up to 50 percent. But many cancer patients are reluctant to exercise, and few discuss it with their oncologists, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-cancer-patients-oncologists.html Cancer Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:38:00 EST news265383474 (Medical Xpress) -- A University of Rochester Medical Center study challenges treatment guidelines for early stage follicular lymphoma, concluding that six different therapies can bring a remission, particularly if the patient is carefully examined and staged at diagnosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-options-good-outcomes-early-stage-follicular.html Cancer Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:08:34 EST news264780498 Despite years of research, glioblastoma, the most common and deadly brain cancer in adults, continues to outsmart treatments targeted to inhibit tumor growth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-modification-tumor-suppressor-affects-sensitivity.html Cancer Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:12:10 EST news264093122 (Medical Xpress) -- Oncologists at UC Irvine Medical Center are pairing robotic baby harp seals with women receiving chemotherapy to study whether the cuddly mechanical creatures can ease pain and stress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-uc-irvine-therapy-robot-effect.html Cancer Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:12:08 EST news263113915 (HealthDay) -- Some cancer doctors may build up emotional walls -- distancing themselves from the patients they can't save -- to avoid grief, sadness and even despair, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-cancer-docs-grief-patients-die.html Cancer Wed, 23 May 2012 13:50:01 EST news256998497 For some patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, treatment may begin before they undergo cystectomy, or surgical removal of the bladder. They may be advised by oncologists to receive chemotherapy before surgery. A large randomized clinical trial published in 2003 demonstrated a survival benefit for neoadjuvant, or pre-surgical, MVAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin and cisplatin) using a standard dose and schedule. However, in an effort to improve toxicity, standard MVAC has been essentially abandoned in favor of other regimens. All current standard neoadjuvant regimens require 12 weeks of chemotherapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-chemotherapy-surgery-benefits-patients-muscle-invasive.html Cancer Thu, 17 May 2012 09:46:56 EST news256466808 (HealthDay) -- Many primary care doctors don't know the long-term side effects of the chemotherapy treatments that cancer survivors under their care may have been given, a new survey found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-primary-docs-dont-long-term-effects.html Cancer Thu, 17 May 2012 06:00:01 EST news256450550 Cancer doctors prescribe medicines with little consideration of the cost, meaning they don't demand any more benefit (in months of survival) from a very expensive drug than from a less expensive one, a new research report says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-price-year-life-cancer-specialists.html Cancer Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:55:45 EST news254112933 Surgeons are not always including radiation oncologists early enough in a patient's treatment decision-making process, leaving some patients uninformed of all of their treatment options and potentially leading to more mastectomies over breast-conserving therapy, according to a study in the April issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology•Biology•Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-breast-cancer-patients-surgery-options.html Cancer Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:47:32 EST news253968445 There is a disconnect between the number of cancer patients estimated to have bone metastases and the number of patients who are sent for orthopedic care each year, states an article in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cancer-patients-under-referred-orthopedic-oncology.html Surgery Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:02:36 EST news252583350 More than 80 percent of radiation oncologists discuss the impact of cancer treatments on fertility with their patients of childbearing age, which can lead to improved quality of life for young cancer patients who are living much longer after their original diagnosis thanks to modern treatment options, according to a study in Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO), the official clinical practice journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-oncologists-discussing-infertility-young-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:00:07 EST news250441199 Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-scientists-uncover-mechanism-melanoma-drug.html Cancer Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:16:51 EST news250254999 A collaborative project between physicists, oncologists and computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, launched last month, will develop improved tools for the planning of high precision radiotherapy. Accel-RT will also help overcome time constraints that currently limit the use of complex radiotherapy treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-radiotherapy.html Other Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:30:01 EST news247133652