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This video reviews the management approach for prostate cancer in older patients, including when screening is appropriate and how geriatric assessments can guide treatment decisions.
What is the effect of statin use on overall survival in elderly patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer? Do you know the cumulative ovarian cancer risk to age 80 years for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers? Test your knowledge of ovarian cancer in our latest quiz.
This video examines an early trial studying abemaciclib for the treatment of brain metastases in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.
This video highlights 7-year follow-up data from the APT trial, which studied adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab for node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancer.
Continuing to hold institutions to specific outcomes may never result in spending control. We need to educate individual physicians on cost-effectiveness in treatment planning.
In this interview we discuss new data on the use of radiotherapy in cancer patients with brain metastases.
According to a study recently presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, held June 2–6 in Chicago, women diagnosed with endometrial cancer are oftentimes not provided with genetic counseling referrals.
Lenvatinib demonstrated noninferiority to sorafenib with regard to overall survival in patients with previously untreated, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
This video examines how a change to weight-based pembrolizumab dosing in first-line PD-L1–positive lung cancer could save nearly $1 billion in US healthcare costs.
Although hematologic oncologists see the value in hospice, their concerns about the adequacy of services for their patients with blood cancers may limit hospice referrals.
This video examines challenges and opportunities in getting older patients with cancer enrolled in clinical trials.
The use of a four-gene signature identified a series of subgroups of triple-negative breast cancer, including one subtype that was responsive to platinum-based chemotherapy in the metastatic setting.
Analysis from a phase III trial confirmed the prognostic value of a 16-gene recurrence score in patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma undergoing adjuvant sunitinib therapy.
A new study found that patients with mCRPC had higher PSA response with enzalutamide vs abiraterone, but no difference in time to progression, and reported worse outcomes in those with quantifiable ctDNA.
Immunotherapy may represent an effective new treatment approach for relapsed mesothelioma patients, according to a new study.
Prognostic somatic copy number alterations in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma can be detected and monitored noninvasively using ctDNA from patient plasma.
Use of a psychological intervention-Conquer Fear-significantly reduced fear of cancer recurrence in cancer survivors in the first 6 months after treatment.
Significant improvements in treatment protocols have reduced the incidence of serious chronic late health effects in survivors of childhood cancer treatment.
This video highlights the evolution of stereotactic body radiation therapy in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
The FDA has granted approval to pembrolizumab for pediatric and adult patients with microsatellite instability (MSI)-high or mismatch repair (MMR)-deficient solid tumors.
This video examines the treatment of locally advanced penile cancer and whether an organ-sparing chemoradiotherapy approach might be an option instead of surgery.
This video examines how to manage the side effects of estrogen deprivation in breast cancer patients, including vaginal dryness and hot flashes.
This video examines the late effects of estrogen deprivation in both younger and older breast cancer patients, including bone thinning, heart disease, and dementia.
Chromosomal abnormalities such as a variant t(9;22) translocation do not appear to have significant prognostic impact on children with chronic myeloid leukemia.
Both oncologists and cancer patients recognize the benefits of physical activity during treatment, but oncologists may feel ill-equipped to give recommendations on exercise, according to a new study.
The addition of adjuvant oral chemotherapy with capecitabine extended the overall survival of patients with biliary cancers by a median of 15 months, according to the results of the BILCAP study.
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which increased insurance coverage, was associated with an increase in the diagnosis of several screenable cancers at an earlier stage.
Two new studies presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association offer an improved understanding of some genetic underpinnings of prostate cancer.
Treatment with the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist goserelin can reduce the risk of chemotherapy-induced premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) in women with early breast cancer.