Oncology News

• ASH 2024 Iron Overload: What Hematologists Should Know Phlebotomy — reducing blood volume — is a common treatment for both cutaneous porphyria and hemochromatosis.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Autonomous Imaging Device Matches Manual Dermoscopy A study finds that an autonomous imaging device produces high-quality dermoscopic images with improved efficiency compared with a traditional method.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Can a Breath Test Ferret Out Lung Cancer? An analysis of exhaled breath, using an electronic nose, demonstrates potential for accurately detecting lung cancer in individuals with suspected disease.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Alert NICE Recommends Capivasertib for Advanced Breast Cancer The targeted drug capivasertib will be available immediately for some patients in England with advanced breast cancer.
  Medscape News UK, April 11, 2025
• Alert NICE Backs Oral Drug for Advanced Bladder Cancer NICE has approved the oral drug erdafitinib for adults with advanced urothelial cancer and FGFR3 alterations, offering new hope and home-based treatment.
  Medscape News UK, April 10, 2025
• Inflammatory Marker Predicts Liver Cancer Risk in T2D An inflammatory biomarker, YKL-40, serves as a reliable prognostic marker for liver and bladder cancers in patients with newly diagnosed T2D, outperforming CRP for these cancers.
  Medscape News UK, April 10, 2025
• DLBCL: Novel Drug Combo Boosts Survival in Older Adults Innovative polatuzumab vedotin plus R-CHP therapy reshapes treatment of older adult patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Tumor Bacteria Tied to Metachronous CRC in Lynch Syndrome The genotoxic gut bacterium pks+ E coli is enriched in CRCs in people with Lynch syndrome, and its presence within the initial primary tumor is tied to an increased risk for metachronous CRC.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Genomic Test Findings for Black Women With Breast Cancer A review evaluated the distribution and predictive capabilities of three genomic assays for breast cancer across different racial and ethnic populations.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• WCM-EADO 2025 Harnessing the Microbiome to Treat Melanoma: Can It Work? Researchers are exploring strategies to alter the gut microbiome to improve patients’ responses to immunotherapy. New research provide encouraging, but very early, data.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• AAN 2025 AI-Powered Wearable Calms Essential Tremor The Felix NeuroAI wristband delivers tailored and dynamic electrical stimulation to the ulnar, median, and radial nerves throughout the day to relieve essential tremor.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Lung Cancer Screening Lower Than Others A study aims to explore whether individuals eligible for lung cancer screening also access other preventive services.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Cancer Deaths Fall in Europe, but Not Across All Types A new study has revealed significant reductions in cancer deaths across Europe, yet critical challenges persist for specific tumour types.
  Medscape News UK, April 10, 2025
• Cardiac Dysfunction Surfaces Early With Cancer Treatment Cardiac problems associated with vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors occur frequently in patients with cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Canadian Medical Groups Urge Participation in April Election Medical groups are pressing their members to keep healthcare a priority for federal officials in an election campaign dominated by concerns about a trade war with the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• WCM-EADO 2025 Is Drug Holiday Safe in Metastatic Melanoma? Good response rates were seen even after immunotherapy re-initiation following a drug holiday.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Alert FDA Approves Nivolumab + Ipilimumab for Certain CRC Patients The CRC indication is the latest approval for the combination therapy, which demonstrated improved PFS vs chemotherapy and nivolumab monotherapy.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• WCM-EADO 2025 Confirmed Benefit of Adjuvant Therapy in Stage III Melanoma Real-world data show that adjuvant therapy, not complete nodal dissection, is crucial for preventing relapse in patients with stage III melanoma.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• WCM-EADO 2025 Rising Skin Cancer Rates: Epidemic or Overdiagnosis? While skin cancer rates are growing in many parts of the world, experts disagree on whether this represents a true epidemic or overdiagnosis is a contributing factor.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025