Oncology & Cancer

Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers

Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated, exposing them to unnecessary surgeries and chemotherapy, says a new study published online today in the ...

Oncology & Cancer

Brain tumor patients should be screened for depression

Because depression in brain cancer patients is a common but often overlooked condition, oncologists should regularly screen tumor patients for depression, according to an article in the current issue of CNS Oncology.

Oncology & Cancer

New study suggests benefit of screening on breast cancer deaths

Invitation to modern mammography screening may reduce deaths from breast cancer by about 28 percent, suggests a study from Norway published in BMJ. This means that for every 10,000 women invited to screening, about 27 deaths ...

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