In a demonstration of global collaboration, clinician-scientists have pooled data from 121 hospitals in 8 countries to find that inexpensive, widely available steroids may improve the odds that very sick patients with COVID-19 will survive the illness. The findings were made through the Randomized Embedded Multifactorial…
There is much debate about the necessity of treating women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) with surgery or radiotherapy. 1,2 It is disconcerting to…
Can a novel artificial intelligence (AI) model accurately predict how patients with cancer will respond to certain cancer drugs? A recent study investigated.
Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a highly curable disease, but up to 25% of patients will develop relapsed or refractory classical HL. Although most patients…
Sophia McKinley, MD, EdM, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses patterns of recurrence in patients with resected cutaneous melanoma during or after adjuvant immunotherapy. She identifies…
In a prospective cohort study, among patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 infection, those receiving cancer treatment had a higher rate of in-hospital mortality vs those…
Recently, the FDA approved pegulicianine (Lumisight) for adult patients with breast cancer to assist in the intraoperative detection of cancerous tissue within the resection cavity…
Researchers have investigated whether spatial tissue analysis may help predict early posttreatment relapse and illuminate new potential therapies in patients with high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma.…
Researchers may have uncovered how the long-term daily use of aspirin may help prevent the development and progression of colorectal cancer, according to a recent…
Sophia McKinley, MD, EdM, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses patterns of recurrence in patients with resected cutaneous melanoma during or after adjuvant immunotherapy. She identifies…
The FDA approved lutetium Lu-177 dotatate (Lutathera) for pediatric patients aged 12 years and older with somatostatin receptor–positive gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs)—includi…
