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This management guide of endocrine malignancies covers the risk factors, diagnosis, screening, and treatment of both thyroid and parathyroid cancers.

This comprehensive guide for oncologists covers the diagnosis, staging, treatment, and management of gastric cancer.

This management guide covers the risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of pancreatic cancer, pancreatic cystic neoplasms, pancreatic endocrine tumors (PETs), carcinoid tumors of the GI tract, adrenocortical carcinoma, and pheochromocytoma.

This management guide covers the risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of colorectal and anal cancers.

This management guide covers the treatment of urothelial cancers (carcinomas of the bladder, ureters, and renal pelvis) and kidney cancers (renal tumors).

The soft-tissue sarcomas are a group of rare but anatomically and histologically diverse neoplasms. This is due to the ubiquitous location of the soft tissues and the nearly three dozen recognized histologic subtypes of soft-tissue sarcomas.

This management guide covers the risk factors, screening, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma.

The use of multidrug chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation in cancer treatment has made the utilization of reliable, long-term venous access (LTVA) an essential component of cancer therapy. The placement of LTVA devices not only permits the delivery of these complex therapeutic regimens but also drastically improves patients’ quality of life.

In clinical studies, formal response criteria have been developed and have gained wide acceptance. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has proposed and implemented newer standard response criteria called Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST). In contrast, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a different standard for assessing response. Major differences between these guidelines are outlined below.

Despite the fact that it is highly curable if diagnosed early, ovarian cancer causes more mortality in American women each year than all other gynecologic malignancies combined.

This management guide covers the symptoms, diagnosis, screening, staging, and treatment of multiple myeloma, smoldering myeloma, and other plasma cell dyscrasias.

This list of chemotherapeutic agents covers the cancers each drug is used for, as well as the recommended dosage and possible toxicities of the therapy.

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of hematologic malignancies of the pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells. These disorders are characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis, including abnormalities in proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis.

This management guide covers the risk factors, screening, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of acute leukemias.

This management guide for non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) covers the symptoms, screening, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and large-cell carcinoma of the lung.

Myeloproliferative neoplasms are a group of clonal myeloid cell–derived disorders characterized by myeloproliferation without dysplasia, bone marrow hypercellularity, and predisposition to thrombosis, hemorrhage, and bone marrow fibrosis.

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a clonal myeloproliferative disorder resulting from the neoplastic transformation of the primitive hematopoietic stem cell.

Young adult female cancer survivors have unmet informational needs regarding reproductive issues and decisional conflict regarding fertility preservation.

A new study has suggested two new ways to report on adverse events in the era of molecularly targeted therapies.

The use of ADT along with modern dose-escalated RT does not improve survival vs RT alone in men with favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

The UK Lung Cancer Screening Trial found that a low-dose CT screening program targeting high-risk individuals can find lung cancer at early stages.

ASCO has released a clinical practice guideline on invasive cervical cancer. For the first time, ASCO created the guideline based on resource availability, tailoring recommendations to support basic- or limited-resource settings.

In this Medical News Minute, developed exclusively for Cancer Network, Dr. Bobby Lazzara discusses a joint effort from the American Cancer Society and IBM that aims to use the cognitive power of Watson to help cancer patients deal with their disease.

A new study has identified several trends by race and ethnicity among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the United States.

The accuracy of interpreting a breast cancer screening mammogram is not diminished as clinicians get toward the end of a session.

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) did not prevent chemotherapy-induced premature ovarian failure in young women with lymphoma.

Half of all cancer deaths and 20% to 40% of cancer cases in the United States could potentially be prevented if individuals adopted healthier lifestyles, according to a new study.

Do you know incidence of lung cancer in the United States? How about which lymph node station is not evaluable with esophageal ultrasound-guided biopsy in newly diagnosed disease? Answer these questions and more.

Partaking in physical activity was associated with a reduction in risk for as many as 13 cancer types regardless of body size or smoking history.

Although data are anecdotal, there is no question that the increased numbers of patients with insurance resulted in cancer patients receiving care they previously could not.