October 26, 2018 A recent Lancet Oncology Commission laid out why oncology and palliative care should be integrated and how to achieve successful integration despite barriers. A Lancet Oncology Commission laid out why oncology and…

October 29, 2018 Scientific models project a continued decrease in lung cancer mortality. Tobacco control efforts implemented in the mid-1960s should continue to reduce lung cancer rates and mortality until 2065, according to a study…

October 29, 2018 Radiotherapy may improve survival among men with low metastatic burden. Adding radiotherapy to standard-of-care androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) did not improve survival in men with newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer, according to…

October 11, 2018 This article originally appeared on Renal and Urology News. In a recently published study, external beam radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer was associated with a 35% increased risk of bladder cancer…

October 11, 2018 Hispanics have a 25% lower cancer incidence rate compared with NHWs, but Puerto Ricans are subject to a higher occurrence of infection‐related cancers. Men living in Puerto Rico, a territory of the…

October 29, 2018 Radiotherapy may improve survival among men with low metastatic burden. Adding radiotherapy to standard-of-care androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) did not improve survival in men with newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer, according to…

October 20, 2018 The drug combination was particularly beneficial for patients in the PD-L1–positive subgroup. Atezolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel significantly prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) among patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, with an even greater benefit…

October 20, 2018 Six months of treatment with trastuzumab is substantially more cost-effective than 12 months of therapy. Reducing the duration of trastuzumab to 6 months for the treatment of HER2-positive early breast cancer is…