What Is the Role of Palliative Care in Outpatient Oncology?
Palliative care should be viewed as a supportive element of care for patients with chronic illnesses at all stages of their disease.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Risk for Suicide Still Elevated for Individuals With Cancer
Elevated risks seen across all sociodemographic groups, with particularly high rates for Hispanics, Medicaid-insured, uninsured.
Moderna’s Experimental Cancer Vaccine Treats but Doesn’t Prevent Melanoma – A Biochemist Explains How it Works
Biochemist, Mark O’Brian, explains that preventive and therapeutic vaccines both train the immune system to fight disease, but they are used in different ways.
Many Thyroid Cancer Survivors Cite Inadequate Pretreatment Understanding
Self-reported failure to have understanding of treatment linked to failure to meet treatment expectations.
Screening Catches Only 1 in 7 Cancers
Vast majority of cancers diagnosed due to symptoms or other medical care.
On-Site Genetic Testing for Prostate Cancer Increases Patient Compliance
Implementation of on-site guideline-based genetic testing for prostate cancer patients increased compliance from 33.3% to 98.7%.
Infection-Unrelated Cancers Predominant Among Older Adults With HIV
Researchers evaluated rates of infection-related and infection-unrelated cancers among younger and older adults with HIV infection.
Medicine vs Food: the Patient Care Dilemma of ‘Financial Toxicity’
Experts are calling on colleagues to bring up the cost of care and its potential impact when discussing treatment options with patients.
Top Recent FDA Approvals
Recent FDA approvals include treatments for acute low back pain, postoperative nausea and vomiting, multiple myeloma, hemophilia B, and fibromyalgia pain.
USPSTF: Evidence Still Lacking for Routine Skin Cancer Screening
Current evidence is insufficient for assessing balance of benefits and harms of screening for asymptomatic teens, adults.
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