News tagged with clinical stage


Rules must evolve to allow new drugs for early Alzheimer's

(HealthDay)—Given the shift in the focus of drug development for Alzheimer's disease toward earlier disease stages, before the onset of dementia, regulatory guidelines need to evolve, according to a perspective ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Comparable patterns of failure between SBRT, lobectomy or pneumonectomy for stage I NSCLC

For patients with medically operable clinical stage I non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), lobectomy or pneumonectomy is the standard approach. For patients with medically inoperable stage I NSCLC, stereotactic body radiotherapy ...

Cancer created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Updated 'Partin Tables' tool now available to predict prostate cancer spread

Prostate cancer experts at Johns Hopkins have developed an updated version of the Partin Tables, a tool to help men diagnosed with prostate cancer and their doctors to better assess their chance of a surgical cure. The updated ...

Cancer created Jan 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows early cognitive problems among those who eventually get Alzheimer's

People who study or treat Alzheimer's disease and its earliest clinical stage, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), have focused attention on the obvious short-term memory problems. But a new study suggests that people on the ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Dec 28, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bone marrow biopsy adds little to PET/CT staging of Hodgkin's

(HealthDay)—For patients with treatment-naive Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) staged using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), routine bone marrow biopsy (BMB) has little or no ther ...

Cancer created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marital status, race increase survival rate significantly for Stage III non-small cell lung cancer patients

A study of survival data for Stage III, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients at the University of Maryland's Greenebaum Cancer Center in Baltimore indicates that marital status and race can significantly impact patient ...

Cancer created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain radiation after lung cancer treatment reduces risk of cancer spreading

Stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with surgery and/or radiation therapy have a significantly reduced risk of developing brain metastases if they also receive prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI); ...

Cancer created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Criteria for surveillance of small renal mass examined

(HealthDay) -- Active surveillance of patients with small renal masses is driven by a tumor size less than 3 cm, poor performance score (PS), and an endophytic lesion, among other patient, tumor, and surgeon ...

Other created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early response is an indicator for rectal cancer survival

(HealthDay) -- In patients with locally advanced rectal cancer undergoing radical resection, response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is an early marker that correlates with rates of recurrence-free survival, ...

Cancer created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Financial hardship common among colon cancer patients

(HealthDay) -- Nearly 40 percent of patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer experience financial hardship, even if they have health insurance coverage, according to research published ...

Cancer created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiation still used despite evidence of little benefit to some older breast cancer patients

Even though a large clinical study demonstrated that radiation has limited benefit in treating breast cancer in some older women, there was little change in the use of radiation among older women in the Medicare program, ...

Cancer created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

International experts clarify hormonal changes of menopause

A panel of US and international experts met in September 2011, in Washington, DC, to review the latest scientific data on the hormonal changes that mark reproductive aging in women and to reach consensus on defining the reproductive ...

Other created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemotherapy is as effective before breast cancer surgery as after

Whether chemotherapy is given before or after breast-conserving therapy (BCT) does not have an impact on long-term local-regional outcomes, suggesting treatment success is due more to biologic factors than chemotherapy timing, ...

Cancer created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Smoking may increase risk of prostate cancer recurrence, death

A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of California, San Francisco, researchers suggests that men with prostate cancer who smoke increase their risk of prostate cancer recurrence and of dying ...

Cancer created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast