This content is machine translated Breast cancer in the family Is the prognosis worsening? Family history is not an independent risk factor for worse outcome in young women with breast cancer. This is the result of a British study in which the data of…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Cancer Prevention Do statins protect against liver cancer? Several studies have shown that statin therapy reduces the risk of liver cancer. However, most of these papers come from countries with high incidence of liver cancer (Asian region). Now…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Prostate Cancer What is the effect of enzalutamide before chemotherapy? Enzalutamide (Xtandi®) prolongs survival in men whose metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer is progressive after chemotherapy. But is the oral androgen receptor pathway inhibitor also effective in patients who have already…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Anemia as a common problem in tumor disease Causes, diagnosis and therapy of anemia in cancer patients Anemia is a common but underestimated and consequently inadequately treated problem in tumor patients. Anemia has a major impact on patients’ quality of life, treatment, and prognosis. Unfortunately, anemia is…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 17th Basel Oncology Talks on Malignant Melanoma Targeted and immunological therapies – what is the current status? This time, a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in the field of targeted and immunological therapeutic approaches for metastatic melanoma was given at the Oncology Talks held…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference Male breast cancer – how do receptor subtypes differ? The IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference was held in Brussels in May. Topics of discussion included the tumor and outcome characteristics of the various molecular subtypes of breast carcinoma in men.…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Concomitant symptoms of cancer therapy What is the risk of xerosis? Many targeted cancer treatments promote the development of dry skin, called xeroderma or xerosis cutis. A meta-analysis now shows how high the incidence and relative risk actually are.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Lung cancer Living longer thanks to cancer? A current forecast [1] for the year 2015, which is based on statistics from the WHO and data from individual European countries, indicates that theThe picture regarding lung cancer is…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated EHA Congress in Vienna Multiple Myeloma News From June 11 to 14, 2015, the congress of the “European Hematology Association” took place in Vienna. Among many other news, there were of course also updates on multiple myeloma.…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated New study on combined immunotherapy in melanoma Combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab is superior to monotherapy Melanomas account for less than 5% of all skin cancers, but they claim the most lives. How to optimize the therapy? The CheckMate-069 trial, published in the New England Journal…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Treatment of brain metastases Surgery, radiosurgery, or conventional radiotherapy? Brain metastases are a local problem that can often be addressed well with local therapy. Because of the risk of intraoperative tumor seeding, surgical resection must be supplemented with conventional…
