Hematology/Oncology News

A research study, WISDOM, is currently underway to improve breast cancer diagnosis timing and outcomes by comparing annual mammography with a personalized screening approach to identify women at highest risk for fast-growing cancers.

BOSTON — Fewer patients hospitalized for acute pulmonary embolism with pancreatic cancer died in 2020 compared with rates in 2001, according to a presentation at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Inherited variants in DNA repair genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 may increase risk for multiple myeloma, according to results of a retrospective study.

Patients with primary thyroid cancer who received radioactive iodine exhibited increased risk for melanoma and other nonkeratinocyte skin cancers, according to study results.

The addition of veliparib to adjuvant temozolomide failed to improve OS for patients with newly diagnosed, MGMT-hypermethylated glioblastoma, according to randomized phase 2/phase3 study results.

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PHILADELPHIA — Patients with a false-positive Shield test result did not appear to be at increased risk for non-colorectal cancer malignancies at 1 year compared with those with a true-negative result, according to a presenter here.

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy can be administered at community centers and on an outpatient basis with proper preparation, education and resources, according to prospective study results.

More than a quarter of cancer-related crowdfunding stories explicitly related experiences of medical financial hardships, according to cross-sectional study results.

ORLANDO — Certain Mohs surgery repair types raised the risk for healing complications following adjuvant radiation therapy, according to a presentation at the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery Annual Meeting.