Financial Toxicity in Cancer: A Possible Solution
Topic: In recent years, more and more people have referred to the high cost of cancer care as “financial toxicity.” How did “expensive” or “costly” evolve into “toxic?” What factors contributed to the evolution? What can be done about it? Join MedPage Today and Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, president of the Levine Cancer Institute in […]
Is Routine Flu Vaccination Key to Pandemic Preparedness?
The staggering loss of life that COVID-19 has wrought, by some estimates more than 3.8 million people at the time of this writing, almost defies comprehension. To say that every human on the planet is being impacted by this illness may not be an overstatement. At the same time, an alarming shift in public focus […]
House Committee Wrestles With Lab Test Regulation
Members of a House committee mostly agreed that laboratory-developed tests need more oversight, but were divided Thursday on how best to approach the topic. The issue at hand was a proposed rule from the FDA that would require medical facilities that use lab tests developed in-house to get the tests approved by the FDA, something […]
What Is Luminal B Breast Cancer? Olivia Munn’s Diagnosis Explained.
Phillip Faraone/VF24 via Getty Images Luminal B breast cancer tends to be more aggressive and often presents at later stages. Actress Olivia Munn announced on Instagram that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023. Specifically, Munn was diagnosed with luminal B breast cancer, which is one of the molecular subtypes of breast cancer, according […]
Sweetened drinks linked to atrial fibrillation risk
Adults who reported drinking two liters (about 67 ounces) or more of sugar- or artificially sweetened drinks per week had a higher risk of an irregular heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation compared with adults who drank fewer such beverages, according to new research published today in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, a peer-reviewed journal of […]
Vismodegib-RT Regimen Achieves High Rate of Disease Control in Head and Neck BCC
More than 90% of patients with locally advanced basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the head and neck achieved locoregional control (LRC) with vismodegib (Erivedge) and radiation therapy (RT), a small clinical trial showed. LRC at 1 year was 91% after vismodegib induction therapy followed by concurrent vismodegib and RT. The overall response rate was 63% […]
Another COVID Toll: Over 134,000 Undiagnosed Cancers During Height of Pandemic
More than 134,000 cancers might have gone undiagnosed during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study of national trends in cancer incidence. Annual cancer incidence fell almost 30% short of the expected rate from March through December 2020. The difference represented potentially 134,395 undiagnosed cancers during that period. Diagnosis of […]
Surgical Remission of Cushing’s Disease Tied to New Autoimmune Conditions
Development of autoimmune disease was more common in patients with surgical remission of Cushing’s disease than in those with surgically treated nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs), according to a retrospective matched cohort study. At 3 years after surgery, 10.4% of patients with Cushing’s disease developed new-onset autoimmune disease compared with 1.6% of those with NFPAs (HR […]
Home Induction is Effective and Safe for Moms and Babies
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — More than two-thirds of nulliparous women achieved vaginal delivery after outpatient induction of labor (IOL), the HOME INDUCTION randomized noninferiority trial found. Out of nearly 300 Irish women who were induced at 39 weeks’ gestation by vaginal prostaglandin (Propess/Cervidil) or osmotic cervical dilator (Dilapan-S), 72% achieved vaginal delivery. There were no […]
Why Does Everyone Seem To Have The Flu Right Now?
visualspace via Getty Images Influenza cases are definitely more prominent this year, and experts have a few theories. If you suspected this flu season is rougher than previous ones, you’re not imagining it. Last season, flu activity had already peaked and was on the downfall by early January. This year, influenza continues to surge across […]