Patients and Doctors Push Back Against the Harsh Side Effects of Cancer Drugs "If the patients are not taking the drug, then it's not going to work" Feb 06, 2024
Progress in Early Cancer Diagnosis; Breast Cancer in Younger Women; Diet and Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Feb 02, 2024
Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Tied to a Range of Cancers, CDC Study Says Health risks now more firmly established, but study falls short of being definitive Feb 01, 2024
Shannen Doherty's 'Miracle Treatment'; Adult 'Diaper Spa'? Israel Raids Hospital Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff Jan 31, 2024
Increase in Congenital Syphilis; Decrease in Breast Cancer Mortality Also in TTHealthWatch: long-term heart failure outcomes Jan 20, 2024 podcast
Two Million Cancers; Casgevy OK'd for Thalassemia; Rectal Exams and Prostate Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jan 19, 2024
Breast Cancer Mortality Reduced by 58% Over Past Four Decades Modeling study suggests advances in treatment played largest role, followed by screening Jan 16, 2024
Short Shrift in Cancer Funding; Bypassing Familiar for Distant; Testing for BRCA News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jan 12, 2024
Exercise Improved Quality of Life for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients In trial, intervention group reported decreased pain, fatigue, shortness of breath Jan 12, 2024 video
Language Minimizing Adverse Events; HPV and Thyroid Cancer; Ultrasound Bras News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jan 05, 2024
MeCo Score May Predict Metastatic Progression in Breast Cancer Seeing whether it can predict response to antifibrotic therapies is next step Jan 05, 2024 video
U.S. Rep's Death Medical Negligence? FDA Investigates GLPs; Fingerprint Mammograms Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff Jan 05, 2024
Combination Shows Promise in Metastatic ESR1-Mutant Breast Cancer Durable responses with lasofoxifene plus abemaciclib in post-CDK4/6 inhibitor setting Jan 03, 2024
Paramagnetic Seeds: An Effective Option for Breast Lesion Localization Study finds seeds-SPIO combo compares favorably with guidewire-SPIO for breast-conserving surgery Jan 02, 2024
Financial Toxicity Among Single Mothers With Metastatic Breast Cancer Diagnosis coupled with financial burden makes for a difficult situation, but help is out there Dec 29, 2023 video
Another CAR-T Warning; 'Sweet' Cancer Test; 'Molecular Jackhammer' Blows Up Cancer News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Dec 28, 2023
SABCS 2023 Highlights Open the Door for More Key Data in 2024 Virginia Kaklamani, MD, discusses this year's sessions of interest and looks ahead to next year Dec 22, 2023 video
Mammo Responsibility Ups Screening; Opioids for Cancer Pain? Ignored Signs of CRC News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Dec 21, 2023
Atezolizumab Plus Carboplatin Boosts Survival in Metastatic TNBC But editorialists note that with recent advances, "it is hard to justify" use of combination Dec 15, 2023
Andre Braugher's Cancer Dx; Malignancies Rising in Younger Adults; Negative Trials News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Dec 14, 2023
One in Five BRCA-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Able to Conceive Disease-free survival comparable between patients who did and did not become pregnant Dec 12, 2023
Add-On Inavolisib Ups PFS in PIK3CA-Mutated Breast Cancer Triplet therapy may surpass benefits of current "pretty active doublet" therapy, expert says Dec 10, 2023
Bispecific Antibody Combination Active in Metastatic HR+/HER2+ Breast Cancer Two-thirds of patients progression free at 6 months with zanidatamab, palbociclib, fulvestrant Dec 10, 2023
Less-Frequent Surveillance Mammo Feasible in Older Breast Cancer Survivors No difference for survival outcomes for annual versus around every 2 years Dec 09, 2023
AI and Breast Cancer Screening; Cancer After Treatment for Sickle Cell Also in TTHealthWatch: mail-in cervical cancer screening kits Dec 09, 2023 podcast
Bilateral Mastectomy Not Tied to Better Survival in BRCA1-Positive Breast Cancer However, the surgery did reduce risk of contralateral breast cancer Dec 09, 2023
Is Omitting Radiation Therapy in Low-Risk Breast Cancer a Good IDEA? Local recurrence rate of 1% at 5 years in women ages 50-69 with genomically low-risk disease Dec 08, 2023
Study Supports ADC as a New Option for Endocrine-Resistant Metastatic Breast Cancer Datopotamab deruxtecan was safe and boosted quality of life Dec 08, 2023
Maintenance Pembrolizumab-Olaparib Fails to Boost Survival in TNBC But better safety profile versus continued pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy Dec 08, 2023
Study 'Underscores' Value of Early Fertility Counseling for Breast Cancer Patients Younger age, embryo/oocyte cryopreservation at diagnosis tied to an increased chance of pregnancy Dec 08, 2023
More Awareness Needed of Heart Events Tied to Breast Cancer Drugs, Experts Say Myriad clinical manifestations of cardiotoxicity must be diagnosed, treated promptly Dec 08, 2023
Adding Immunotherapy to Neoadjuvant Chemo Boosts pCR in HR-Positive Breast Cancer Promising early results with pembrolizumab, nivolumab but event-free survival data still pending Dec 07, 2023
Detecting Ovarian Cancer Early; Allergy Med for NSCLC? Bad News for Anti-TIGIT Drug News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Dec 07, 2023
No Benefit to Adjuvant-Only Immunotherapy in Early TNBC Neoadjuvant administration of immunotherapy remains the preferred approach Dec 07, 2023
De-Escalating Breast Cancer Treatment Feasible After Response to Neoadjuvant Chemo Study showed no increase in disease progression when omitting regional nodal irradiation Dec 07, 2023
Tucatinib Regimen Boosts PFS in Advanced HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Adding agent to T-DM1 resulted in 2-month progression-free survival improvement Dec 06, 2023
After Chemo, Breast Cancer Patient Develops Two Malignant Neoplasms Be aware of the potential for secondary malignancy in relation to LCH diagnosis, researchers urge Dec 04, 2023
Let's Talk Drug Prices; Restoring the Sense of Touch; Learning From Tumors in a Dish News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Dec 01, 2023
Breast Cancer Screening Frequency Makes a Big Survival Difference Keeping those mammogram appointments is life-saving, study finds Nov 30, 2023
AI Model Can Predict Breast Cancer Risk Regardless of Patient's Race Algorithm proved accurate where traditional risk models have failed, but needs more testing Nov 30, 2023
