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Hospice cuts cost and use of care for cancer patients
Credit: CDC Patients with advanced cancer receive less aggressive care and have lower healthcare costs during their last year of life if they use...
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Group develops cancer health literacy tool
patient and her father Credit: Rhoda Baer A new tool can identify patients with limited cancer health literacy, according to research published...
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Team pinpoints new target for MM therapy
Researchers say they’ve identified a promising therapeutic target for multiple myeloma (MM). The group first discovered that MM patients have...
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Aspartame, sweetened drinks don’t increase risk of NHL
beverages at the supermarket Consuming aspartame and drinking sweetened beverages do not increase a person’s risk of developing non-Hodgkin...
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FDA lifts clinical hold on imetelstat
The hold, which was placed in March, suspended a phase 2 study of imetelstat in patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) or polycythemia vera...
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Obesity affects toxicity of immunotherapy
Immunotherapy that can be effective against tumors in young, thin mice can be lethal to obese ones, according to research published in The Journal...
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Panobinostat demonstrates ‘profound’ synergy with bortezomib
NEW YORK—Calling the synergy with the proteasome inhibitor “profound,” Paul G.
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New criteria for diagnosing MM could prevent organ damage
Credit: Chad McNeeley The International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) has published new criteria for diagnosing multiple myeloma (MM) in The...
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Cancer survivors face financial, work-related issues
chemotherapy Credit: Rhoda Baer Many US cancer survivors may be experiencing financial or work-related hardship, a new survey suggests. Twenty-...
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Amoeba could help fight cancers
Experiments in a soil-dwelling amoeba have provided insight that could help us treat cancers characterized by PTEN mutations, researchers have...
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NICE doesn’t support pomalidomide for MM
Credit: CDC The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued a preliminary draft guidance rejecting the use of...