Duke University

An estimated 1 in 7 screen-detected breast cancers in biennially screened women aged 50 to 74 years will be overdiagnosed, according to an analysis of an authoritative U.S. population data set published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Sotorasib demonstrated clinically meaningful anticancer activity in patients with heavily pretreated KRAS G12C-mutated advanced pancreatic cancer, according to study results presented during the ASCO Plenary Series.

Following hospital discharge, AKI survivors reported several barriers to self-management such as being unaware of and uneducated about their diagnosis, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

Many caregivers expressed hesitancy to vaccinate themselves and their children who had cancer against COVID-19, according to study results published in Pediatric Blood & Cancer.

Presence of hyperglycemia at hospital admission for stroke was linked with elevated risk for subsequent stroke by 90 days, an increase that dual antiplatelet therapy seemingly failed to curtail, researchers reported.

The military experience of veterans with type 2 diabetes may contribute to their diabetes distress and should be considered by providers when discussing diabetes self-management, according to study findings.

CVD leads to approximately 40% to 50% of deaths in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease, so CV risk assessment of recipients and donors is an important part of the kidney transplantation process.

Individuals with acute myeloid leukemia in remission after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation reported ongoing symptoms and impacts in the post-transplant period, according to research presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Compared with drug therapy, there was age-based variation in catheter ablation clinical outcomes among patients with atrial fibrillation, with the largest benefits observed in younger patients, according to new data from the CABANA trial.

In a cohort of patients with MI and mild or moderate chronic kidney disease, Black individuals were less likely to receive invasive management compared with their white counterparts, researchers reported.