Allie Casey

Findings from a recent pilot study done at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center showed a potential link between e-cigarette use and bladder cancer.

More Stage I cancers were diagnosed after the passage of the Affordable Care Act within 5 screenable disease types (colorectal cancer, female breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, and prostate cancer) than were diagnosed before ACA implementation.

Leslie Schover, PhD, discusses ways in which providers can better address sexuality issues associated with treatment for patients with breast cancer.

During a presentation at the 2017 Miami Breast Cancer Conference, Leslie R. Schover, PhD, stressed the importance of preventive sexual counseling in reducing sexual dysfunction resulting from the treatment of breast cancer patients with aromatase inhibitors.

An axillary lymph node dissection can be avoided for patients with large, operable tumors in the breast, no clinical signs of cancer in the axillary nodes before being treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and no signs of cancer following a sentinel lymph node biopsy during surgery.

Patients with breast cancer who received radiation therapy following a mastectomy reported increased complications and lower satisfaction, according to the results of a large, multicenter study.

Based on encouraging efficacy signals and safety data from separate trials exploring the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab (MEDI4736), there is a role for checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

According to findings of a recent study, obesity is more prevalent in cancer survivors, specifically in those with a history of breast or colorectal cancer (CRC), compared with those without any history of disease.

Colorectal cancer mortality rates have been on the decline in California for both men and women since the mid-1990s, but for Hispanic men, rates have remained essentially unchanged.