Oncology News

• Metronomic Therapy Shows Promise in Breast Cancer Patients with HR+/HER2− metastatic breast cancer without previous systemic therapy were randomly assigned to receive either metronomic capecitabine plus AI or AI alone.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know A proposed federal rule would require hospitals and physicians’ groups to beef up health cybersecurity measures to protect patient privacy and prevent ransomware attacks. Some changes could be expensive, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• End-of-Life Care Talks Occur Late for Young Cancer Patients Documented palliative goals of care rarely occurred among adolescents and younger adults with cancer before the last 30 days of life.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Can Glucarpidase Help Reverse Methotrexate Kidney Damage? Outcomes in methotrexate-induced kidney injury have shown improvement through treatment with the enzyme glucarpidase.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• SABCS 2024 Can Some Patients Safely Skip Postmastectomy Radiation? Most women with intermediate-risk breast cancer can safely skip chest wall irradiation after mastectomy and avoid the risks for chest wall pain, fibrosis, heart damage, and lung cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• KRAS Mutation Types Shape Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes Researchers assessed the association of KRAS mutations in metastatic PDAC with the clinical outcomes and responses to first-line chemotherapy regimens.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Incentives Do Not Boost Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance A cohort study analyzed data from 15,273 men with prostate cancer to determine active surveillance rates at difference points in time.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• SABCS 2024 CDK 4/6 Blocker Prolongs Survival in HER2+ Breast Cancer “Incredible” results from the PATINA trial suggested a new standard of care for HER2, ER-positive metastatic breast cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Dietary Calcium Cuts Colorectal Cancer Risk by 17% The largest ever study on the link between diet and bowel cancer has confirmed a protective effect of dietary calcium.
  Medscape News UK, January 08, 2025
• MRI-Invisible Prostate Lesions: Are They Dangerous? MRI-invisible lesions are real. Experts debate what these lesions really mean for patient outcomes and care.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• PSMA-PET Challenges Current Prostate Cancer Staging Researchers conducted a post hoc, retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of 182 patients with recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy, definitive radiotherapy, or salvage radiotherapy.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• How Often Do Radiation Plans Need Peer Review Changes? A meta-analysis found that peer reviews in radiation oncology led to recommendations to change treatment plans in more than one in four patients.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Cardiac Health Can Determine Breast Cancer Severity Individuals with cardiovascular disease could have an increased risk for advanced breast cancer at diagnosis, potentially guiding recommendations for personalized screening.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Merkel Cell Less Common, With Higher Mortality Than Melanoma A study analyzing over 660,000 skin cancer cases highlighted significant risk factors. incidence and mortality for MCC and melanoma.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round? Have sobering studies on alcohol caused physicians to drink less themselves or changed the way doctors counsel patients on booze? The answer is complicated.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Alert Last Month in Oncology: FDA Cancer News Roundup The FDA continues to approve new drugs and expand indications for others at a rapid pace. Here’s a summary of what happened last month.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Drug Shortages: Does Canada Manage Them Better? Oncology drugs tend to “percolate to the top” of shortage lists that prioritize drugs of concern, said expert.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Advanced Melanoma: 10-Year Outcomes Turn Heads Findings inspire the potential for a cure.
  Medscape News UK, January 06, 2025
• Preoperative Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases Shows Promise Preoperative stereotactic radiosurgery to treat brain metastases resulted in low rates of local recurrence, radionecrosis, and nodular leptomeningeal disease.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 2025
• AI Colonoscopy's 'Intelligent' Module Ups Polyp Detection Results from a British trial add to the growing body of evidence supporting the use of AI-aided colonoscopy to increase premalignant colorectal polyp detection.
  Medscape Medical News, January 03, 2025