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Standard dosage for one lung cancer treatment may be too high
A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicates that the customary pembrolizumab dose for treatment...
Difficulties diagnosing delirium in older adults after surgery
Delirium is a medical term for "sudden confusion." It is an abrupt, rapid change in mental function and can cause...
Safety of gene transfer to treat heart failure supports further clinical development
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 6, 2017--Based on the encouraging safety data that has emerged...
Take a coffee or tea break to protect your liver
Credit: L. Alferink and S. Darwish Murad Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 6, 2017 - Chronic liver diseases rank as the...
Early-stage clinical oncology company Apexian Pharmaceuticals licenses IU discoveries
Apexian Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing novel compounds to treat cancer, has licensed all available patented and...
Neurodegenerative disease mechanism and potential drug identified
Two new studies of progressive, neurodegenerative diseases linked to defects in cells' mitochondria offer hope for developing a new biomarker...
Publicly funded cancer trials save more than 3 million years of life
Credit: JAMA Oncology PORTLAND, OR - People diagnosed with cancer gained 3.34 million years of life thanks to cancer clinical...
Effect of treatment trials on survival of patients with cancer in US population
Joseph M. Unger, Ph.D., M.S., of the SWOG Statistical Center and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash., and...
Time to initiating cancer therapy is increasing, associated with worsening survival
Monday, June 5, 2017, Chicago, Ill.: After reviewing nearly 3.7 million patient records, Cleveland Clinic researchers have shown that newly...
Study: Collateral damage from cosmic rays increases cancer risks for Mars astronauts
The cancer risk for a human mission to Mars has effectively doubled following a UNLV study predicting a dramatic increase...
Black, white men view impacts of prostate cancer treatment differently, study finds
CHICAGO - When it comes to making decisions about which prostate cancer treatment to choose, black and white men prioritize...
Targeted therapies show initial effectiveness in subset of papillary thyroid cancer
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two immunotherapy drugs currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of...
AACR pubs 1st set of screening recs from childhood cancer predisposition workshop
PHILADELPHIA -- The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has published its first set of consensus screening recommendations for children...
Attacking metastatic tumors in the brain
(Bethesda, MD, June 05, 2017) Rakesh Jain, PhD, Director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at the...
Trends in reoperation after initial lumpectomy for breast cancer
Monica Morrow, M.D., of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and coauthors investigated the impact of a 2014 consensus...
Generous health insurance plans encourage overtreatment, but may not improve health
CATONSVILLE, MD, June 5, 2017 - Offering comprehensive health insurance plans with low deductibles and co-pay in exchange for higher...
Research suggests possible new treatment for EGFR-positive lung cancer
ASCO Perspective "It's been nearly 15 years since EGFR-targeted therapies were introduced, helping extend survival for thousands of patients in...
CAR T-Cell therapy sends multiple myeloma into lasting remission
ASCO Perspective "While it's still early, these data are a strong sign that CAR T-cell therapy can send multiple myeloma...
Alectinib halts lung cancer growth more than a year longer than crizotinib
ASCO Perspective "The fact that this second-generation targeted treatment halted advanced lung cancer growth for more than two years while...
Adding a second HER2 blocker may lower chance of invasive breast cancer for some women
ASCO Perspective "The introduction and success of HER2 targeted treatment was a turning point in breast cancer care. It's promising...
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