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Electronic symptom monitoring improved quality-of-life outcomes among patients with metastatic cancer

People with advanced cancer who communicated their symptoms weekly using an electronic survey had about a one-third better physical function and over a 15% better control of their symptoms compared to those who were evaluated less frequently via in-person clinical visits, according to findings from a multi-state study conducted at 52 community cancer clinics.

6 Jun 2022

Hospice patients with dementia more likely to receive excellent care, study shows

While the hospice program was originally designed for patients with cancer, who are expected to die within six months, currently close to half of older adult hospice enrollees have a diagnosis of dementia.

6 Jun 2022

Poor sleep may be a good predictor of COPD flare-ups

Poor sleep is associated with a significantly increased risk of life-threatening flare-ups in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health.

6 Jun 2022

Drug combination yields highest response and longest survival rates for patients with pancreatic NETs

Very few treatment options are available to patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), but researchers at the Yale Cancer Center and Yale New Haven Health's Smilow Cancer Hospital found that patients treated with a combination of capecitabine and temozolomide had longer progression-free survival rates than those treated with temozolomide alone.

6 Jun 2022

New analytical method sheds light on enduring mystery about type 2 diabetes

Researchers at Oregon State University have invented a new analytical method that sheds light on an enduring mystery regarding type 2 diabetes: Why some obese patients develop the disease and others don't.

6 Jun 2022

She’s 31, has stage 4 kidney cancer — and talked openly about it in a job interview

Katie Coleman stood face-to-face with a choice no job seeker should ever have to make. She could tell her prospective employer she had stage 4 kidney cancer, the most life-threatening stage of all.

6 Jun 2022

Physical activity and long COVID symptoms

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated associations between physical activity and long coronavirus disease (COVID) symptoms.

6 Jun 2022

Height increases risk of certain diseases

In a recent study published in the Journal PLoS Genetics, researchers investigated how height determined several common clinical traits in adults by comparing associations of those traits with actual- and genetically-predicted-height.

5 Jun 2022

Taking everolimus post-surgery can improve outcomes in patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma

In a study of patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma, those who took the drug everolimus daily for up to one year after surgery lived longer without their disease returning (recurrence-free survival, or RFS) than those who did not take everolimus, although the results narrowly missed the clinical trial's prespecified level for statistical significance.

4 Jun 2022

Weight loss with bariatric surgery associated with lower risk of cancer and cancer-related mortality

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that among adults with obesity, weight loss achieved with bariatric surgery was associated with a 32% lower risk of developing cancer and a 48% lower risk of cancer-related death compared with adults who did not have the surgery.

3 Jun 2022

Researchers repurpose a cancer drug for the treatment of neuroinflammatory diseases

The repurposing of FDA-approved drugs for alternative diseases is a faster way of bringing new treatments into the clinic.

3 Jun 2022

New guidelines recommend pancreatic cancer screening for individuals with genetic susceptibility

By the year 2030, pancreatic cancer is expected to become the second most common cause of cancer deaths for both men and women in the United States, according to recent reports.

3 Jun 2022

Exploring the effectiveness of various treatments in people with axial spondyloarthritis

axSpA is a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease that mainly affects the spine and sacroiliac joints. It can cause significant pain and disability.

3 Jun 2022

Novel approach identifies potent drug-like molecules that bind to cancer protein of interest

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have identified potent, highly specific compounds that interfere with bromodomain (BD)-containing proteins involved in cancer.

3 Jun 2022

Researchers identify predictive biomarkers to fight against non-small cell lung cancer

In a recent study, researchers at the University of Missouri are identifying new minimally invasive biomarkers to develop a blood test for early detection of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), one of two main types of lung cancer.

3 Jun 2022

$New combination of drugs increases survival time for some patients with refractory lung cancer$

New combination of drugs increases survival time for some patients with refractory lung cancer

A combination of the drugs ramucirumab and pembrolizumab reduced risk of death by 31% compared with the standard of care in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer that had progressed on prior immunotherapy.

3 Jun 2022

Study: Nearly 43% of patients with KRAS-mutated lung cancer respond to experimental drug adagrasib

Nearly 43% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose lung cancers harbored a specific KRAS mutation responded to the experimental drug adagrasib, and the targeted agent also showed activity against lesions in the brain that metastasized from the lung tumors, according to results of a study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators.

3 Jun 2022

Study reveals significant decline in breast, cervical, colorectal cancer screenings due to COVID-19 pandemic

New findings led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) show the number of women in the United States who reported having a recent (in the past year) breast cancer or cervical cancer screening dropped by 2.13 million (6%) and 4.47 million (11%) respectively in 2020 compared to 2018.

3 Jun 2022

Computer vision tool effectively distinguishes rheumatoid arthritis from osteoarthritis in joint tissue

A new study led by Hospital for Special Surgery investigators in New York City has found that their computer vision tool effectively distinguishes rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from osteoarthritis (OA) in joint tissue taken from patients who underwent total knee replacement (TKR).

3 Jun 2022

Ibrutinib plus chemoimmunotherapy prolonged progression-free survival in previously untreated mantle cell lymphoma patients

Combination chemoimmunotherapy with the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib demonstrated improved progression-free survival over standard chemoimmunotherapy for previously untreated mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) in patients 65 and over, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported today at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.

3 Jun 2022

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Electronic symptom monitoring improved quality-of-life outcomes among patients with metastatic cancer

Hospice patients with dementia more likely to receive excellent care, study shows

Poor sleep may be a good predictor of COPD flare-ups

Drug combination yields highest response and longest survival rates for patients with pancreatic NETs

New analytical method sheds light on enduring mystery about type 2 diabetes

She’s 31, has stage 4 kidney cancer — and talked openly about it in a job interview

Physical activity and long COVID symptoms

Height increases risk of certain diseases

Taking everolimus post-surgery can improve outcomes in patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma

Weight loss with bariatric surgery associated with lower risk of cancer and cancer-related mortality

Researchers repurpose a cancer drug for the treatment of neuroinflammatory diseases

New guidelines recommend pancreatic cancer screening for individuals with genetic susceptibility

Exploring the effectiveness of various treatments in people with axial spondyloarthritis

Novel approach identifies potent drug-like molecules that bind to cancer protein of interest

Researchers identify predictive biomarkers to fight against non-small cell lung cancer

New combination of drugs increases survival time for some patients with refractory lung cancer

Study: Nearly 43% of patients with KRAS-mutated lung cancer respond to experimental drug adagrasib

Study reveals significant decline in breast, cervical, colorectal cancer screenings due to COVID-19 pandemic

Computer vision tool effectively distinguishes rheumatoid arthritis from osteoarthritis in joint tissue

Ibrutinib plus chemoimmunotherapy prolonged progression-free survival in previously untreated mantle cell lymphoma patients

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