Oncology News

In this Healio video exclusive, Joanne Stone, MD, MS, and Susan S. Khalil, MD, discussed highlights from the second annual Mount Sinai Women’s Health Forum, a 1-day conference dedicated to the latest updates in care for midlife women.

Dana Ataya, MD, has written more than a hundred songs.

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.

Many women with breast cancer struggle with unmet emotional or financial needs, according to research presented at American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress.

Women diagnosed with a hematologic malignancy during pregnancy had a 22-fold higher rate of severe maternal morbidity than those who did not have blood cancer, according to study results.

The addition of cadonilimab to first-line chemotherapy improved outcomes among certain women with cervical cancer.

The detection of specific genomic alterations in circulating tumor DNA appeared linked to poorer outcomes among women with metastatic breast cancer, according to study results.

Most breast cancer-specific deaths occur among patients diagnosed with stage I or II disease rather than more advanced disease, according to a SEER database analysis.

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.