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Studies give new insights on immunotherapy in elderly patients with advanced NSCLC

10.04.2019 Health Problems

Two studies to be reported at ELCC 2019 provide new insights on the efficacy and safety of immunotherapy in elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), where information has previously been lacking despite being the age group most commonly affected. Immunotherapy with drugs that target immune pathways to enhance the body’s ability to recognise and destroy tumour cells is […]

Researchers identify risk factors of advanced liver disease in cystic fibrosis patients

13.11.2018 Health Problems

Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) pediatric gastroenterologist, Michael Narkewicz, MD, recently shared results of the Prospective Study of Ultrasound to Predict Hepatic Cirrhosis in Cystic Fibrosis (PUSH), which sought to determine if liver ultrasounds could identify children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis who are at greater risk of developing advanced liver disease. The Cystic Fibrosis Liver Disease Network PUSH study […]

Calcifications in the eye increase risk for progression to advanced AMD by more than six times

09.11.2018 Health Problems

Calcified nodules in the retina are associated with progression to late stages of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Experts from Queen’s University Belfast, working in partnership with the University of Alabama of Birmingham and in collaboration with UK material scientists and US clinical ophthalmology practices, made the ground-breaking discovery that the calcified nodules in the retina – the thin layer of […]

New treatment approach for advanced anal cancer

22.10.2018 Health Problems

A new approach to treating advanced anal cancer is safer and more effective than the most widely used current treatment, according to the first ever randomised clinical trial in this group of patients. Around 1,300 people are diagnosed with anal cancer each year in the UK and this number is rising by around three per cent per year. Due to […]

Low/no calorie soft drinks linked to improved outcomes in advanced colon cancer patients

22.07.2018 Health Problems

Drinking artificially-sweetened beverages is associated with a significantly lower risk of colon cancer recurrence and cancer death, a team of investigators led by a Yale Cancer Center scientist has found. The study was published today in the journal PLOS ONE. “Artificially sweetened drinks have a checkered reputation in the public because of purported health risks that have never really been […]

Checkpoint inhibitor shrinks advanced squamous cell skin cancer

05.06.2018 Health Problems

Clinical trials show that an immune checkpoint inhibitor shrinks the tumors of nearly half of patients with an incurable, advanced form of a common skin cancer, an international team led by a researcher at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. “These results mark a potential paradigm shift in the treatment […]

Thyroid tumors in Alaska natives are larger and more advanced at diagnosis

11.04.2018 Health Problems

A new study spanning 45 years has shown that while Alaska Natives have a similar incidence of thyroid cancer as the U.S. white population, their tumors at the time of diagnosis tend to be larger and to have spread beyond a localized area. The data, culled from the National Cancer Institute’s Alaska Native Tumor Registry, are described in an article […]