Victoria Forster
Science Writer at Freelance
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1 week ago |
cancertherapyadvisor.com | Victoria Forster
First-line treatment with alectinib and bevacizumab appears to be effective for patients with ALK-rearranged, metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to researchers. They reported results with the combination in Nature Communications. The researchers evaluated alectinib and bevacizumab in the phase 2 ALEK-B trial (NCT03779191), which included 41 patients with treatment-naïve, metastatic, ALK-rearranged NSCLC.
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2 weeks ago |
empr.com | Victoria Forster
Patients with prostate cancer may have a lower risk of recurrence if they take multivitamin supplements after diagnosis, according to research published in European Urology Oncology. Researchers evaluated 1396 men with non-metastatic prostate cancer who had undergone radiation or radical prostatectomy and were enrolled in the CaPSURE study. At a median of 28 months after diagnosis, the patients completed a questionnaire that asked about multivitamin use after diagnosis and before recurrence.
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2 weeks ago |
cancertherapyadvisor.com | Victoria Forster
Patients with prostate cancer may have a lower risk of recurrence if they take multivitamin supplements after diagnosis, according to research published in European Urology Oncology. Researchers evaluated 1396 men with non-metastatic prostate cancer who had undergone radiation or radical prostatectomy and were enrolled in the CaPSURE study. At a median of 28 months after diagnosis, the patients completed a questionnaire that asked about multivitamin use after diagnosis and before recurrence.
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2 weeks ago |
cancertherapyadvisor.com | Victoria Forster
Roughly two-thirds of US oncologists surveyed said they do not endorse using the words “cure” or “curable” when talking to patients with advanced ovarian cancer. Results from this survey were published in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer. Researchers surveyed 150 US oncologists who were routinely treating patients who were newly diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer.
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1 month ago |
dermatologyadvisor.com | Victoria Forster
Radiation from computed tomography (CT) scans may cause as many as 5% of cancers diagnosed each year in the United States, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers used data from the IMV Medical Information Division CT Market Outlook Report to quantify the number of CT scans performed in the US in 2023. They calculated that 93 million CT scans were conducted in 61.5 million patients.
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