Browsing: cancer

(MedPage Today) – Hypofractionated locoregional radiotherapy for high-risk breast cancer was not inferior to standard fractionated radiotherapy for the 3-year incidence of arm lymphedema, with no…

(MedPage Today) – Actor William Shatner, Captain Kirk from the original “Star Trek” television series, and his real-life daughter talk about surviving advanced cancer. (ABC News)…

(MedPage Today) – Drugmaker GSK announced Wednesday that the FDA has approved zidacemtinib (Zydetro) for previously treated adults with locally advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non-small cell…

(MedPage Today) – High levels of trihalomethanes (THMs) – a disinfection byproduct of the drinking water treatment process – were linked to a higher risk of…

(MedPage Today) — TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracy, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and…

(MedPage Today) – The FDA has approved the kinase inhibitor gedatolisib (Revtorpeak) for the treatment of hormone receptor (HR)-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer in patients whose disease has…

(MedPage Today) – The FDA has approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda) or pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa (Keytruda Culex) in combination with enfortumab vedotin (Padsave) as perioperative treatment for…

(MedPage Today) – A study of national insurance claims data showed that a quarter of patients with newly diagnosed cancer had a recent emergency department (ED)…

(MedPage Today) – International guidelines may help identify dermatomyositis patients at particularly high risk for cancer, according to a retrospective single-center US study. In 413 patients…

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