Oncology News

Laparoscopy may offer perioperative advantages to laparotomy and may be an acceptable alternative for some women with ovarian cancer, but systematic review and meta-analysis findings are limited by inclusion of only observational studies.

Most people at high risk for lung cancer have not discussed screening for the disease with their clinician or have even heard of the test, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

ORLANDO — A lifestyle medicine toolkit for cancer risk reduction and survivorship “received significant engagement” in part due to its comprehensiveness and feasibility, according to a speaker at the Lifestyle Medicine Conference.

In this edition, single-fraction SBRT outcomes for central lung tumors, adjuvant durvalumab extends survival in limited-stage small cell lung cancer and more.

In this special crossover episode of Oncology Overdrive, we bring you Healio coverage from the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting.

Both colonoscopies and stool-based tests for colorectal cancer screening may be more efficient and cost-effective compared with blood-based tests, study findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

A 50-year-old man has been a patient in the practice for the past 25 years.

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.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Alice Chen, MD, about the impact of misinformation and disinformation during elections, the health care issues on the 2024 ballot and more.

A retrospective study revealed that industry-sponsored clinical trials have enrolled significantly more participants than federally sponsored trials over the past decade.