The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today issued a new clinical guideline for the use of whole breast radiation therapy for breast cancer that expands the population of patients recommended to receive accelerated ...
Mar 12, 2018
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Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a protein that can be targeted to suppress growth of a common type of breast cancer known as "estrogen receptor positive" (ER+), including ER+ cancers ...
Nov 17, 2017
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Women who have gone through menopause and who have been using a vaginal form of estrogen therapy do not have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer than women who have not been using any type of estrogen.
Aug 16, 2017
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Researchers from The University of Western Australia believe General Practitioners can play an important role in ensuring women persist with cancer treatment.
Jul 27, 2017
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(HealthDay)—For pediatric and adolescent oncology patients, a single-dose 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) is safe and immunogenic, according to a study published online July 11 in Cancer.
Jul 19, 2017
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The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) 2017 press conference showed that implementing a vaccination programme run by nursing staff dramatically improves pneumococcal ...
Jun 15, 2017
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A meta-analysis of previously published cancer research showed no difference in five-year and 10-year survival rates between patients who underwent radical cystectomy, which is the surgical removal of the bladder, and a bladder-preserving ...
May 31, 2017
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(HealthDay)—For women with early-stage, hormone receptor-positive invasive breast cancer, initiation of cholesterol-lowering medication (CLM) during endocrine therapy is associated with improved survival and distant recurrence-free ...
Feb 15, 2017
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When flawed clinical research is reported in the media with hype and sensationalism, it has the potential to have a devastating effect on patients, physicians, the scientific community and eventually society as a whole.
Dec 8, 2016
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In patients with invasive breast cancer treated in a general community health care setting, tamoxifen therapy was associated with reduced risTamoxifen, AI therapies linked to reduced risk for contralateral breast cancer in ...
Oct 6, 2016
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