Metastasis

An AI model classified risk for prostate cancer metastasis more accurately than standard guidelines, suggesting the approach could be used to reduce overtreatment or undertreatment.

Patients who underwent liver transplantation vs. alternative therapy for unresectable colorectal liver metastasis had higher progression-free and overall survival, as well as lower rates of recurrence, researchers reported in JAMA Surgery.

Younger patients and those with T1b melanomas on the face, ear or scalp should undergo sentinel lymph node biopsies, according to a study.

Coffee consumption may reduce risk for colorectal cancer recurrence and all-cause mortality, according to research published in the International Journal of Cancer.

Quest Diagnostics has launched MelaNodal Predict, an advanced predictive gene expression test for patients with melanoma, the company announced in a press release.

Patients with metastatic basal cell carcinoma experiencing distant organ involvement have worse outcomes than patients with nodal involvement, according to a study.

High rates of recurrence and metastasis associated with mesenchymal dermal neoplasms — specifically pleomorphic dermal sarcoma — should prompt dermatologists to follow-up with their patients more often, according to a study.

Organ transplant recipients diagnosed with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma are more likely to experience recurrence, metastasis and death from this cancer compared with non-organ transplant recipients, according to a study.

New technology that identifies which populations of breast cancer cells are likely to drive invasion and metastasis has revealed that the location of cancer cells may be as essential to tumor growth as mutations.