(HealthDay)—For patients with ERBB2-negative breast cancer, two years of treatment with celecoxib as adjuvant to conventional therapy yields no disease-free survival (DFS) benefits compared with placebo, according to a ...
Jul 16, 2021
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A screening tool used to evaluate the need for endometrial cancer biopsies in women frequently misses the signs of this cancer in Black women, according to a new study released today in JAMA Oncology.
Jul 16, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) BNT162b2 vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech) appears to be safe and achieves satisfactory serologic status in patients with cancer, according to a study ...
Jul 13, 2021
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(HealthDay)—For patients with early breast cancer, five years of zoledronate treatment after chemotherapy does not improve prognosis versus two years of treatment, according to a study published online June 24 in JAMA Oncology.
Jun 25, 2021
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A large, retrospective, multicenter study involving Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that convalescent plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients can dramatically improve likelihood of survival ...
Jun 17, 2021
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The prevalence of genetic mutations associated with breast cancer in Black and white women is the same, according to a new JAMA Oncology study of nearly 30,000 patients led by researchers in the Basser Center for BRCA at ...
Jun 14, 2021
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A combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax was found to provide lasting disease remission in patients with newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson ...
Jun 10, 2021
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Screening for colorectal cancer—the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States—can save lives by detecting both pre-cancerous lesions that can be removed during the screening procedure, and ...
May 20, 2021
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Multiple studies have shown that African American women with breast cancer have lower survival rates than white women with the disease. But the association between race or ethnicity and treatment outcomes in triple-negative ...
May 13, 2021
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Nearly 10 million cancer screenings have been missed in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic, researchers report.
May 5, 2021
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