Master Doctor Search: Cancer
African American breast cancer survivors need to be better informed about CVD risk
African American breast cancer survivors are four times more likely to die from breast cancer than women of all other races and ethnicities, and they have a disproportionately...
4 hours ago - News Medical
New, efficient method facilitates antibody development
In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases.
4 hours ago - News Medical
Corrigendum to “High protein diet improves the overall survival in older adults with advanced gastrointestinal cancer” 40/3 (2021) 1376-1380
The authors regret that, after acceptance of the article, we noticed the need to change the overall survival information. According to Brookmeyer &Crowley, 1982, the median...
7 hours ago - Clinical Nutrition
New hope for advanced kidney cancer patients
Renal cell carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer, can quickly spread through the body and if diagnosed at a late stage it is usually inoperable, with patients given...
10 hours ago - Daily Mail
Combined liver-cytokine humanization enhances human red blood cell production and survival
In a new study by the Yale Department of Immunobiology and Yale Cancer Center, researchers report combined liver and growth factor humanization enhances human red blood cell...
12 hours ago - News Medical - 2 articles
Two concurrent cancers in a 19-year-old patient: yolk sac ovarian tumor and metastatic gastrointestinal tract malignancy - case report
Two concurrent malignancies present in young people is an extremely rare condition. Diagnosis of gastric cancer pre-eminently concerns older patients. There are very few...
13 hours ago - Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Cardiovascular risk factors often undertreated among men with prostate cancer
Veterans with prostate cancer often had underassessed and undertreated cardiovascular risk factors, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open. Initiation of...
18 hours ago - Healio
Focused approach needed to reduce prostate cancer incidence, mortality among Black men
Greater effort is urgently needed to address substantial disparities in prostate cancer incidence and mortality among Black men, according to a review published in Cancer...
23 hours ago - Healio
An Educational Intervention to Improve Staff Collaboration and Enhance Knowledge of Fall Risk Factors and Prevention Guidelines
Magnet®-designated hospitals are seeking to reduce the frequency of falls that lead to injury, which is considered a hospital-acquired condition. Patients with cancer are at...
1 day ago - Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Entrectinib Impresses in Certain Lung Cancers
A majority of patients with advanced or metastatic ROS1 fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer obtained durable remissions with the ROS1 inhibitor entrectinib , according...
1 day ago - MedPageToday
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VIVIENNE PARRY: Should Covid-19 vaccines be mandatory for NHS staff?
NHS staff might be required to have a Covid-19 vaccine if they want to work in the health service according to indications coming from government sources, writes VIVIENNE PARRY.
Global COVID-19 Cases Top 116 Million, Say Sources
Globally, the total number of coronavirus cases has topped 116 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.57 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Vision Impairment Linked to High Mortality Risk
Research links high mortality risk to both mild and severe vision impairment.
Barbie Celebrates International Women's Day With New Eleanor Roosevelt Doll
She's the only First Lady to have a Barbie doll named after her Eleanor Roosevelt , one of the most influential women of the 20th century, is the latest figure to get the...
COVID Relief Bill Contains Lots of Healthcare Provisions
WASHINGTON - Both public and private health insurance would become less expensive for large numbers of people under the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill now being debated in the...
Fish Oil Helped My Stiff, Sore Neck Feel Better, So I Asked an Expert If...
My neck had gotten so stiff a few months ago that I was grimacing in pain just from tipping my head to one side or twisting around. All the neck stretches and foam-rolling in...
CDC: In-Person Dining Adds COVID to the Community Menu
Mask mandates were associated with county level decreases in COVID-19 cases, while increases were seen when in-person restaurant dining was allowed, a modeling study found. The...
Kids Hospitalized With COVID-19 Frequently Have Neuro Symptoms
Neurologic symptoms occurred frequently in children and adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19, a large case series of pediatric patients in the U.S. showed. Of 1,695 people 21...
Another Weight-Loss Trial Win for Weekly GLP-1 Drug
When paired with lifestyle management, once-weekly semaglutide yielded significant weight loss for overweight adults with type 2 diabetes, the manufacturer-sponsored...
The Joy And Relief People Are Feeling About Their COVID-19 Vaccines
COVID vaccines are being distributed, and you can almost hear the collective sigh of relief. There is finally a light at the end of this very long pandemic that flipped life as...