Cancer

Vitamin D3 supplementation, when taken in amounts that exceeded the recommended daily allowance, did not lower the occurrence of major CVD events or invasive cancer among older adults, data from a 5-year randomized controlled trial showed.

About a third of caregivers of pediatric cancer survivors are hesitant about their children receiving a COVID-19 vaccination, according to a study published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer.

Compared with cancer survivors, stroke survivors were less likely to quit smoking, with nearly 40% continuing to smoke after the stroke, suggested new data.

Karen M. Winkfield, MD, PhD, spoke with Healio about a lecture on precision medicine she gave at this year’s Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium.

In this video, Lillian L. Siu, MD, FRCPC, discussed a panel discussion at 2021 AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics on the topic of in drug development roadblocks.

In this video, Eugene Shenderov, MD, PhD, discusses the STAMPEDE and PEACE-1 studies, which evaluated the addition of abiraterone acetate plus prednisolone to standard therapy for patients with prostate cancer.

The offspring of mothers who received 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate during pregnancy may face nearly double the risk for cancer compared with those who were not exposed, according to a recent study.

In this video Kevin B. Ginsburg, MD, a urologic oncology fellow at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, discusses abstracts looking at focal therapy and active surveillance for prostate cancer patients presented at the American Urological Association's annual meeting.

White adults with obesity have an increased risk for cancer death, whereas Black women with obesity have no increased risk and Black men with obesity have a lower risk for death from cancer, according to a presenter at ObesityWeek 2021.

Weight-loss interventions may reduce risks for some cancers, cancer mortality and recurrence for people with obesity, according to a speaker at ObesityWeek 2021.