Sarcoma News

Decreased exposure to radiation therapy has lowered incidence of subsequent malignancies in childhood cancer survivors diagnosed in the 1990s compared with those diagnosed in the 1970s, according to results of a longitudinal cohort study.

The addition of an in-house specialty pharmacy at a cancer center in Connecticut reduced the amount of time patients waited for oral cancer medications; prevented errors associated with filling, dispensing and taking oral chemotherapy; and improved overall quality of care, according to a study being presented at the Quality Care Symposium.

Several cancer survivorship care models are available to help integrate primary care providers into the long-term follow-up care of cancer survivors.

A majority of patients with cancer and their caregivers lack sufficient knowledge about advances in diagnostic and treatment options, according to results of a survey released by Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

Nearly one-third of nonelderly Americans recently diagnosed with cancer change their prescription drug use for financial reasons, according to an analysis published in Cancer.

This calendar year could be a pivotal one for oncology and hematology research, drug approvals and clinical trial results.

In patients with previous cancers treated with recombinant human growth hormone therapy as children, researchers observed increased risks for both cancer incidence and mortality during long-term follow-up, but no clear cancer-related risk was observed in patients with growth failure without other major disease, according to findings from a population-based European study.

Enrollment of adolescents in oncology trials remains significantly lower than that of children.

The use of metaphors for explaining randomization could ease the difficulty in recruiting patients to participate in randomized clinical trials, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The board of directors for World Conference on Interventional Oncology, a nonprofit association that supports and promotes the field, has established a society to further its mission.