Oncology/Hematology
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<ѻýҕl>Men Encouraged to Consider Medication to Prevent Prostate Cancerѻýҕl>
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Millions of healthy men ages 55 and older should talk to their physicians about taking a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor such as finasteride (Proscar) or dutasteride (Avodart) to prevent prostate cancer, according to a guideline issued by two medical groups.
Feb 25, 2009
<ѻýҕl>ASH: Drugs Effective in Chronic ITP Not Appropriate as First-Line Treatmentѻýҕl>
SAN FRANCISCO -- Rituximab (Rituxan) and eltrombopag (Promacta) are "too aggressive and too expensive" for use as first-line therapies against chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, agreed participants in an exclusive ѻýҕl roundtable discussion.
Dec 09, 2008
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<ѻýҕl>ASCO: Platinum-Taxane Regimen No Benefit for Thymoma or Thymic Carcinoma
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CHICAGO -- For treatment-naive advanced thymoma or thymic carcinoma, carboplatin (Paraplatin) and paclitaxel (Taxol) failed to achieve response rates approaching those reported in published trials of athracycline-based regimens.
Jun 05, 2008
<ѻýҕl>Radiologists Take FDA Warning on Lung Ablation in Strideѻýҕl>
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA's recent warning about deaths caused by radiofrequency ablation of lung tumors was more a note of caution than a mortal blow to the procedure, said interventional radiologists experienced with the technique.
Feb 01, 2008
<ѻýҕl>ASCO: High Dose Pemetrexed (Alimta) Fails to Increase Survival in NSCLCѻýҕl>
CHICAGO -- Increasing the dose of pemetrexed (Alimta) to 900 mg/m2 did not improve outcome for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but did slightly increase toxicity, researchers found.
Jun 08, 2007
<ѻýҕl>Red Sox Rookie Pitcher to Get Chemo for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomaѻýҕl>
BOSTON -- The anaplastic large cell lymphoma diagnosed in Boston Red Sox rookie pitcher Jon Lester, detected by his uncle, is a childhood non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a high-grade malignancy with a favorable clinical course.
Sep 07, 2006
<ѻýҕl>ASCO: Five Years of Arimidex Causes Bone Lossѻýҕl>
ATLANTA — Five years of breast cancer adjuvant therapy with an aromatase inhibitor, can lead to a 6% to 7% loss of bone mineral density, a trigger for osteoporosis for women who are borderline osteopenic when they begin treatment, investigators reported here.
Jun 04, 2006
<ѻýҕl>Estrogen Alone Does Not Increase Risk of Breast Cancer
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STANFORD, Calif. - Post-menopausal women who took estrogen alone for more than seven years did not have an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study of more than 10,000 women ages 50 to 79. The data were dramatically different from a sister study stopped in 2002 of estrogen plus progestin.
Apr 11, 2006
<ѻýҕl>Dana Reeve, a Nonsmoker, Dies of Lung Cancer at 44 ѻýҕl>
NEW YORK - Dana Reeve, 44, the widow of actor Christopher Reeve, died here Monday night, seven months after she announced that she had developed lung cancer. A nonsmoker, she had been treated at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Mar 07, 2006
<ѻýҕl>Cleansing the Bowel for Colonoscopy May Harm the Kidneys ѻýҕl>
NEW YORK - Oral sodium phosphate solutions are great at cleaning out the bowel prior to colonoscopy, but in some patients these powerful purgatives can also do a serious number on the kidneys, caution Columbia researchers.
Oct 18, 2005
<ѻýҕl>Peter Jennings of ABC News Dies of Lung Cancerѻýҕl>
NEW YORK-ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings, 67, died Sunday, just four months after he announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Jennings, a former smoker, had been treated with radiation therapy at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center here.
Aug 08, 2005