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Focal radiation boost nets better outcomes in prostate cancer
Adding a boost to the visible tumor on MRI reduced the 5-year risk of biochemical recurrence or death by nearly half, without increasing late...
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Breast surgery may be a gateway to addictive medication use
More than 13% of women who underwent a mastectomy with reconstruction became persistent users of opioids and/or sedative-hypnotic drugs thereafter...
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‘Impressive’ results with neoadjuvant T-VEC in advanced melanoma
Superior outcomes with intralesional T-VEC plus surgery persisted at 3 years.
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors don’t increase COVID-19 incidence or mortality, studies suggest
Cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors are not significantly more likely to develop or die from COVID-19, two studies suggest...
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Immunotherapy could fill unmet need in leptomeningeal metastases
More than a third of patients had a CNS response to systemically administered pembrolizumab, including two patients who had long-lived complete...
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Risk factors for severe immune-related AEs identified
A nationwide cohort study of more than 14,000 patients finds combination immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, younger age, and a lung cancer...
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Predictors of upstaging on PSMA PET/CT may help guide its use
Patients with high-risk prostate cancer having more positive cores on biopsy or a higher Gleason grade were most likely to experience upstaging...
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Lung cancer: Proton beam radiotherapy likely reduces cardiovascular events
A retrospective study shows lower rates of transient ischemic attack and MI with proton beam radiotherapy.
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Family planning issues loom large for female radiation oncologists
Nearly three-quarters of survey respondents said their career choice strongly influenced when they started or planned to start their family.
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Molecular features of medulloblastoma may help personalize radiotherapy
The impact of different radiation-reducing strategies varied across four molecular subgroups.
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PET guidance for radiation therapy improves prostate cancer outcomes
Using PET as well as conventional imaging to guide postprostatectomy radiation therapy reduces the risk of treatment failure.