BOSTON (Oct. 22, 2018)--The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University has awarded the school's inaugural $100,000...
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Oct 20, 2018 - Patients with an aggressive form of advanced breast cancer can benefit from immunotherapy when used in combination with...
Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - There is growing evidence that drugs approved for the treatment of breast...
Combining a targeted drug with hormone therapy substantially extends survival for women with advanced breast cancer, a major clinical trial has found. Women taking palbociclib...
Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 20 October 2018 - Treatment with the cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor palbociclib achieves a...
Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 20 October 2018 - Immunotherapy improves survival in some patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer,...
Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - Neoadjuvant erlotinib benefits selected epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated patients who undergo complete resection of stage IIIA-N2 stage non-small...
Oncology trial RTOG 0232 comparing a combined treatment of external beam therapy and brachytherapy (EBT+B) to transperineal interstitial permanent brachytherapy (B) alone indicate a significantly...
Data from a validation study of NRG-RTOG 0521 suggests that, while there is no association between an elevated level of C-reactive protein (CRP) and disease-free...
A subset of patients with low-risk breast cancer is highly unlikely to see cancer return following breast conservation surgery but can lower that risk even...
Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - A combination of the immune checkpoint blocker, avelumab, plus the tyrosine kinase...
New research suggests that rising childhood obesity rates are causing more adolescents to develop a debilitating hip disease requiring urgent surgery. Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis...
Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - Radiotherapy to the prostate improves overall survival in men newly diagnosed with...
University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed a 3D printing technique that allows for localized control of an object's firmness, opening up new biomedical avenues...
Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - Two-year maintenance therapy with olaparib, a PARP (poly ADP ribose polymerase) inhibitor,...
