No radiotherapy an option for older breast cancer patients, study shows
Radiotherapy does not improve survival rates in older patients with early breast cancer, new research suggests.
Feb 15, 2023
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Radiotherapy does not improve survival rates in older patients with early breast cancer, new research suggests.
Feb 15, 2023
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Viral suppression of HIV by antiretroviral medications helps slow transmission of the disease and keep individuals living with it healthy, at times making viral loads so low they are undetectable even on blood tests. Sixty-five ...
Feb 9, 2023
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Cambridge scientists have managed to identify and kill those breast cancer cells that evade standard treatments in a study in mice. The approach is a step towards the development of new treatments to prevent relapse in patients.
Dec 20, 2022
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A patient's own immune cells, multiplied into an army of billions of immune cells in a lab, can be used as a living medicine against metastatic melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, as the TIL trial has shown. The ...
Dec 8, 2022
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A newly updated clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides recommendations on the use of radiation therapy and systemic therapy after surgery to treat patients with endometrial cancer. ...
Dec 7, 2022
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Exposure therapy is one of the leading treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but up to a half of all patients don't respond to it.
Nov 28, 2022
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People with one form of the genetic blood disorder hemophilia now have a one-time treatment with a $3.5 million price tag.
Nov 23, 2022
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A combination of two types of cancer-fighting treatments—the immunotherapy agent pembrolizumab and a nanoparticle-bound form of the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel—may provide an urgently needed new treatment approach for ...
Nov 3, 2022
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A new study offers a new option to patients with oligometastatic prostate cancer who want relief from hormone therapy without compromising the risk of their disease spreading. In the study, patients who received radiation ...
Oct 25, 2022
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When I talk about our research team's work on pregnancy in transgender people, people often recall Thomas Beatie, a pregnant man who appeared on "Oprah" and in People magazine in 2008. The media focus on Beatie and his pregnancy ...
Sep 27, 2022
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