Hem/Onc Round-up: Suicide in Young Cancer Survivors, Breast Surgery and Body Image, and more Illustration with word cloud about different types of cancer. Here are the top stories recently covered by DocWire News in the hematology/oncology section. In this edition, read about sarcopenia as a risk factor for morbidity in liver resection, a grant to […]

Nivolumab plus chemotherapy prolongs PFS in gastric, gastroesophageal junction cancer September 25, 2020 2 min read Source/Disclosures Source: Boku N, et al. Abstract LBA7_PR. Presented at: European Society for Medical Oncology Virtual Congress 2020; Sept. 19-21, 2020. Disclosures: Ono Pharmaceutical Co. and Bristol Myers Squibb supported the study. Boku reports research funding and honoraria from […]

New analytical model detects mutations in breast cancer Credit: Lund University Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a computational model which is effective in detecting and identifying genetic mutations in breast tumors. The study, the largest of its kind in the world, includes results from over 3,200 patients with breast cancer. The researchers […]

Cal Ripken Jr. Joins Urology Care Foundation Podcast for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month BALTIMORE, Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Urology Care Foundation, the official Foundation of the American Urological Association (AUA), talked with baseball legend and Hall of famer, Cal Ripken Jr. on their latest podcast episode to raise prostate cancer awareness and encourage men […]

[Startup Bharat] How Hospido is helping cancer patients from Tier II and III cities get treatment in … The pandemic has hit us in ways we could never imagine. The healthcare sector is also facing numerous challenges, including the shortage of healthcare workers, due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the country. And […]

Targeting Hypoxia in Cancer Therapies: Using the Lack of Oxygen as an Advantage Reading time: 4 minutes Jessica Desamero With cancer, the environment that surrounds a tumor, or the tumor microenvironment (TME), can be just as important as the tumor itself in terms of cancer progression and drug resistance. How can this be? First, let’s […]

Sexuality post gynaecological cancer treatment: a qualitative study with South African women [unable to retrieve full-text content] All women had received a gynaecological cancer diagnosis and had been treated with either surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or a combination of these …Published at Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:17:13 +0000

Utilizing proteomics to discover novel drug targets in inflammatory conditions and cancer Recent improvements in mass spectrometric instrumentation and methodology have enabled broader implementation of proteomics, the study of proteins in a large scale, in biomedicine. New sensitive and effective proteomics methods can be applied to identify potential novel drug targets in inflammatory conditions, leukemia […]

Breast cancer treatment delays by socioeconomic and health care access latent classes in black … Background Breast cancer mortality is higher for Black and younger women. This study evaluated 2 possible contributors to disparities—time to treatment and treatment duration—by race and age. Methods Among 2841 participants with stage I‐III disease in the Carolina Breast Cancer […]

World Rose Day: Why the day holds special significance for cancer patients Fighting cancer is a hard and prolonged battle. Apart from the health consequences, there’s stress, psychological impact and distress that cancer brings around. It can be emotionally draining to fight the disease and patients need a lot of courage and positivity to keep […]