Oncology News

• Hospitals Call for More Choice Than Pricey Blood Treatment Method The nation's largest supplier of platelets is moving to a method it says is easier for hospitals, but one that sharply raises costs, leading some centers to demand more options.
  Kaiser Health News, May 17, 2022
• Sarcopenia Nearly Doubles Risk Women Will Quit Endocrine Therapy But the good news is oncologists can address the condition before starting therapy. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, May 17, 2022
• Imiquimod Cream Offers Alternative to Surgery for Vulvar Lesions Topical imiquimod offers an alternative to surgery for women with HPV-related precancerous lesions, concludes the first head-to-head randomized trial of the two approaches.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• BSR 2022 Risk Factors for COVID Death Studied in U.K. Arthritis Patients Shielding status was the highest ranked of all the risk factors identified for early mortality from COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Which CRC Regimens Are More Likely to Harm Kidneys? After analyzing various treatments for metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC), researchers zeroed in on FOLFIRI + bevacizumab. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, May 17, 2022
• HPV Strains Covered by the Vaccine Have Declined Greatly in US The study is good news for the HPV vaccination program in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Cancer Patients Unaware of Their Increased Thrombosis Risk Greater knowledge about the risk is needed among healthcare practitioners and patients, particularly regarding primary and secondary prevention of thrombosis, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Jury Is In? Survival Benefit With Lap Surgery for Rectal Cancer Compared with open surgery, patients who underwent laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer had significantly improved 5-year overall survival.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• DDW 2022 Gallstone Disease May Be a Harbinger of Pancreatic Cancer Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma were six times more likely to have had gallstone disease within the year prior to their diagnosis than noncancer patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• DDW 2022 Alarming Increase in Esophageal Cancer in Middle-Aged Adults The prevalence of esophageal cancer and Barett's esophagus has increased substantially among middle-aged adults during the past 5 years, warn the authors of a new study from Florida.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Writing Out Common Medical Terms Boosts Patient Knowledge: Study Research published in JAMA Network Open shows that patients are more likely to understand their health conditions when healthcare providers avoid abbreviations and acronyms in written communications.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Radiologists Feeling the Effects of Contrast-Media Shortage The current global shortage of iodinated contrast media is forcing radiologists to make changes in diagnostic imaging to conserve contrast without affecting patient health.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• How to Weed Out False Positives on Breast MRIs Several features of incidental lesions detected on contrast-enhanced breast MRI were associated with false positive outcomes. The study, published as a preprint, has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, May 16, 2022
• AUA 2022 Most Men With Low-Risk Prostate Tumors Now Forgoing Treatment Acceptance of active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer hit a record high in 2021, although the US still lags internationally, new figures showed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2022
• Alert RaDonda Vaught Sentenced to Probation for Patient Death The 38-year-old nurse received 3 years of supervised probation and was permanently stripped of her nursing license. She also apologized for the first time to the family of Charlene Murphey.
  News Alerts, May 13, 2022
• ESOC 2022 Stroke in the Young: Cancer in Disguise? Young stroke patients have an increased risk of being diagnosed with a new cancer in the years following their stroke, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• BSR 2022 Myositis Guidelines Aim to Standardize Adult and Pediatric Care These are the first guidelines on how to manage adult and pediatric patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Cancer and COVID: What Can Increase Risk of Dying? A large meta-analysis suggests that younger age and lung and blood cancers, as well as treatment with chemotherapy, raise the risk for death from COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Diabetes Doubles Risk of Death From COVID-19; East-West Divide? 'These findings are interesting because they reveal that worse outcomes due to COVID-19 in people with diabetes can be reduced in the right setting,' says an expert.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022