Neoplasms

Most health care workers, particularly physicians, had a lower mortality rate compared with the general population, an analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed.

NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York Retina, Nicholas Mahoney, MD, discusses thyroid eye disease.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with Philadelphia chromosome-negative accelerated- or blast-phase myeloproliferative neoplasms who received allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells had a longer median OS than those who did not, 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.

The dawning of genomic testing has shown that Spitz neoplasm cases occur at equal rates among children and adults, which should prompt clinicians to diagnose Spitz neoplasms more confidently among older patients, according to a study.

CHICAGO — In this video, Maneesh Jain, MD, discussed the backstory behind a study he co-authored regarding the link between Agent Orange and myeloproliferative neoplasms, presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Survivors of blood or marrow transplants exhibited an increased risk for developing subsequent malignant neoplasms in the gastrointestinal tract, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Oncology.

The FDA granted accelerated approval to cobimetinib for treatment of certain patients of histiocytic neoplasms.

Artificial intelligence-assisted upper gastrointestinal endoscopy reduced the miss rate for gastric neoplasms, according to research published in Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology.