Getting cancer is scary. Discovering that your marketplace plan doesn't give you access to leading cancer centers may make the diagnosis even more daunting. As insurers' shrink their provider networks and slash the number ...
Jan 5, 2017
0
0
New research suggests that women with stronger social connections while being treated for breast cancer may fare better than those who don't have that kind of support.
Dec 23, 2016
0
2
In recent years, researchers have identified specific gene mutations linked to gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), which primarily occur in the stomach or small intestine, with 5,000 to 6,000 new cases per year in the ...
Dec 15, 2016
0
0
A leading-edge immunotherapy clinical trial at UConn Health's Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center has packed a one-two punch, successfully controlling a patient's advanced lung cancer using the combined power ...
Dec 14, 2016
0
72
(HealthDay)—An artificially intelligent computer system is making breast cancer treatment recommendations on a par with those of cancer doctors, a new study reports.
Dec 9, 2016
0
0
Starting in 1993 and ending in 2001, ten academic medical centers in the United States screened 76,685 men and 78,216 women for prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancers. The question was whether yearly screening could ...
Dec 8, 2016
0
4
In recent years, cancer patients have benefited from a new array of weapons to fight the disease. Traditional chemotherapy and radiation therapy—blunt clubs aimed at any fast-growing cell in the body—have been augmented ...
Dec 7, 2016
0
2
Clinical trials have proven the power of immunotherapies targeting PD-L1 or PD-1 in a range of cancers. However, these same trials show that only some patients benefit - tumors must depend on PD-L1 to be affected when medicines ...
Dec 1, 2016
0
3
The Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital has received the highest accolade for its research work in the field of breast cancer: top medical journal The Lancet commissioned Michael ...
Nov 23, 2016
0
3
Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy - designed to reduce the size of breast tumors before surgical removal - appears to be as effective as neoadjuvant chemotherapy for patients with localized, estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive breast ...
Nov 9, 2016
0
4
