New category of Immunotherapy safe & effective in cancer patients with HIV Anjali Nimesh Nimesh9 Nov 2017 7:05 PM IST A new category of immunotherapies called checkpoint inhibitors that has been highly effective against many different cancers appears safe to use in...
Even Light Drinking Increases Cancer Risk Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli9 Nov 2017 8:00 PM ISTIn the past various studies have suggested a link between alcohol consumption and certain kinds of cancers. Now, American Society of Clinical Oncology...
ASCO Updated Guideline on Platelet Transfusion in Cancer Patients Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli19 Dec 2017 7:01 PM ISTThe American Society of Clinical Oncology has updated its clinical practice guideline on platelet transfusion for patients with cancer. ASCO first...
New Class of Anti-Cancer Drug Effective Against Kidney Cancer Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli26 Dec 2017 7:00 PM ISTMetastatic kidney cancer remains largely incurable. Despite a dozen treatments and several immunotherapies, survival rates beyond 5 years remain...
Trastuzumab: No negative impact on cardiac function Anjali Nimesh Nimesh13 Jan 2018 7:15 PM ISTLong-term follow-up results of the NRG Oncology trial NSABP B-31 have shown that the addition of trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy does not...
New guidelines for assessing severity of head and neck cancers Ruby khatun khatun27 Jan 2018 7:01 PM ISTCedars-Sinai investigators have developed a new, more accurate set of guidelines for assessing the severity of head and neck cancers and predicting...
Tree Nuts increase disease free survival in Colon Cancer Anjali Nimesh Nimesh5 March 2018 7:25 PM ISTDr.Charles S. Fuchs and other researchers at Yale Cancer Center conducted a large cohort study which revealed that disease-free survival increases in...
Prostate Cancer Drug when taken with food cuts dose & lowers cost Anjali Nimesh Nimesh30 March 2018 7:10 PM ISTAbiraterone acetate, marketed as Zytiga, is the standard medicine used to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.It is usually...
Rivaroxaban -New treatment for DVT in cancer patients Vinay Singh singh13 May 2018 7:20 PM ISTCurrent international guidelines recommend cancer patients are injected with an anticoagulant (a low molecular weight heparin) to treat and prevent...
ASCO's Updated Platelet Transfusion Guidelines for Cancer Patients Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli16 May 2018 7:01 PM ISTAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)has released its updated Guidelines for the use of platelet transfusions in patients with cancer.According...
SIO guideline on the use of integrative therapies for breast cancer Vinay Singh singh20 Jun 2018 7:01 PM ISTThe Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) produced an evidence-based guideline on the use of integrative therapies during and after breast cancer...
Rivaroxaban as good as LMW Heparin for reducing VTE recurrence in cancer patients Vinay Singh singh27 July 2018 7:10 PM ISTRivaroxaban, a direct oral anti-coagulant (DOAC) was associated with relatively low Venous thromboembolism (VTE) recurrence but higher clinically...
