(MedPage Today) — Women with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer had significantly higher rates of pathologic complete response when bevacizumab was added to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, two large clinical trials showed.
(MedPage Today) — Patient-collected specimens for human papillomavirus DNA testing detected precancerous cervical lesions with accuracy comparable to that of cytology-based Pap screening and visual inspection, data from screening studies showed.
(MedPage Today) — Inherited mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, known to increase the risk of ovarian cancer, appear, paradoxically, to improve survival, researchers reported.
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Curative therapy is still a possibility, even if a colon cancer patient is seen for the first time in the emergency department with acute symptoms, researchers said here.
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — In patients with gastric cancer, laparoscopic gastrectomy that includes removal of lymph nodes outside the immediate area around the stomach offered “excellent” margin status and node retrieval, researchers reported here.
(MedPage Today) — Men with early prostate cancer had significantly less disease progression when treated with dutasteride (Avodart) as part of active surveillance, results of a randomized trial showed.
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Non-surgical therapies for stage 0-IA squamous esophageal cancer may be a viable alternative treatment that also provides a chance for organ preservation, according to a Japanese study.
(MedPage Today) — Subcutaneous administration of bortezomib (Velcade) has received FDA approval for both of the drug’s currently recognized indications, its manufacturer said.
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Women undergoing radiation therapy for esophageal cancer appear to be at greater risk of cardiac complications than men, researchers reported here at the Multidisciplinary Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — A decline in survival rates in stage IV gastric cancer coincides with the increased use of chemotherapy rather than radiation and surgery, researchers found.
