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Could an osteoporosis drug reduce need for hip revision surgery?
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- Pam Harrison
Denosumab, widely used to treat osteoporosis, may reduce the need for revision surgery due to aseptic loosening of the prosthesis in patients with...
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U.S. cancer death rates drop for second year in a row
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- Pam Harrison
Mortality from cancer continues to decline in the United States, driven largely by major reductions in death rates from non–small cell lung cancer...
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Intense rectal cancer surveillance may be reduced
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- Pam Harrison
For patients with rectal cancer who achieve a sustained clinical complete response, the risk for local regrowth...
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New standard emerges for locally advanced rectal cancer
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- Pam Harrison
Short-course radiotherapy followed by chemotherapy before surgery reduces disease-related treatment failure at 3...
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Extended virus shedding after COVID-19 in some patients with cancer
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- Pam Harrison
Some patients, including stem cell transplant and CAR T recipients, may require extended periods of isolation.
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Rapid relief of opioid-induced constipation with MNTX
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- Pam Harrison
Subcutaneously administered, peripherally acting mu-opioid receptor antagonist, relieves opioid-induced constipation in both chronic, noncancer-...
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Low-dose radiotherapy for lung inflammation in severe COVID-19
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- Pam Harrison
A small trial of low-dose radiotherapy for severe COVID-19 pneumonia has shown promising results, and two larger...
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Surgery may not be needed with locally advanced rectal cancer
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- Pam Harrison
A short course of radiotherapy plus chemotherapy allows many rectal cancer patients to skip surgery if they...
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HIV drugs prevent type 2 diabetes, may be path to new therapy
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- Pam Harrison
“Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, drugs approved to treat HIV-1 and hepatitis B infections, also...
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Thermography plus software shows efficacy for breast cancer screening
- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Thermography aided by diagnostic software may provide an alternative to mammography in resource-poor countries...
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Deaths sky high in hospitalized COVID patients with kidney injury
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- Pam Harrison
“We may be facing an epidemic of post–COVID-19 kidney disease and that, in turn, could mean much greater numbers of patients who require kidney...
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First guideline on NGS testing in cancer, from ESMO
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- Pam Harrison
ESMO recommends tumor next-generation sequencing for non–small cell lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer...
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Immunotherapy should not be withheld because of sex, age, or PS
- Author:
- Pam Harrison
Immune checkpoint inhibitors confer a similar survival advantage regardless of cancer type, line of therapy, sex...
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Black/White gap gone: ‘The only cancer where this has happened’
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- Pam Harrison
Lung cancer rates are similar among Black and White patients, a new study suggests.
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NSCLC success story: Mortality down, survival improved
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- Pam Harrison
In recent years, mortality rates have fallen and survival has improved for patients with non–small cell lung cancer.