Archive: 05/06/2017
Global study sets new risk-based standard to personalize chemotherapy for colon cancer
After surgery for lymph-node positive colon cancer (stage III), some patients may only need half of the long-standing standard course of chemotherapy. In an analysis of six clinical trials with over 12,800 patients, 3 months ...
Jun 5, 2017
Pregnancy after breast cancer does not increase chance of recurrence
Findings from a retrospective study of 1,200 women provide reassurance to breast cancer survivors who are contemplating pregnancy. In the study, women who became pregnant after an early breast cancer diagnosis, including ...
Jun 5, 2017
Abiraterone slows advanced prostate cancer, helps patients live longer
A clinical trial of nearly 2,000 men shows that adding abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) to a standard initial treatment regimen for high-risk, advanced prostate cancer lowers the relative risk of death by 37%. The 3-year survival ...
Jun 5, 2017
Steady decrease in severe health problems for childhood cancer survivors
Treatments for childhood cancer are often intense and carry the risk of lifelong health problems for survivors. An analysis of 23,600 childhood cancer survivors in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS), funded by the ...
Jun 5, 2017
New drug shows durable efficacy across diverse pediatric and adult cancers
Scientists may have developed the first targeted, oral, tumor-type agnostic therapy - a cancer medicine that works comparably well across many kinds of cancer, regardless of patient age. In clinical trials of adults and children ...
Jun 5, 2017
Abiraterone delays metastatic prostate cancer growth by 18 months, extends survival
Adding abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) plus prednisone to standard hormonal therapy for men newly diagnosed with high-risk, metastatic prostate cancer lowers the chance of death by 38%. In a phase III clinical trial of 1,200 ...
Jun 5, 2017
Vaginal bacteria alter sexual transmission of Zika and herpes simplex virus-2
Bacteria in the vagina can inhibit sexually transmitted Zika virus and herpes simplex virus-2 in women, according to a new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The findings were discussed at the ...
Jun 5, 2017