Quality Improvements in Lung Cancer Surgery and Tumor Pathology May Extend Survival Postsurgery““Over the past 15 years, a quality improvement initiative in the heart of the Mississippi Delta has made stepped progress to change the status quo for lung cancer outcomes...
New Report Highlights Overlooked Cancer Risk Factor: Alcohol“Sept. 18, 2024 – Cancer is becoming a more survivable illness in the U.S., but a lack of awareness about the risks linked to alcohol and unhealthy lifestyle choices could slow this progress.” AI chatbots...
Q&A: Panel Offers Actionable Steps Toward Hepatitis C Elimination““It is rare to consider the elimination of any infectious disease,” Vincent Lo Re III, MD, MSCE, and colleagues noted in Clinical Infectious Diseases.” US will let more people take methadone at...
Expectations concerning cancer treatment: perspectives of medical oncologists and patients on advanced, unresectable lung carcinoma“Introduction. This study seeks to compare expectations regarding systemic cancer treatment for advanced lung cancer from the...
Understanding the social determinants of cardiovascular health in Asian Americans“Numerous social and structural factors, including immigration status, socioeconomic position and access to health care, contribute to differences in cardiovascular health and heart...
Free Hepatitis C Screening and Testing coming to HoustonEliot Davis, secretary of Houston Viral Hepatitis Task Force, shares what people can expect at The ElimiNATION Awareness Tour. You can attend the event on Wednesday, September 18 at Sunnyside Health and...
Taletrectinib shows high response rates and safety in ROS1+ lung cancer patients“The ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) taletrectinib demonstrated high overall and intracranial responses, and a favorable safety profile with low incidence of neurologic adverse events...
Recent studies underscore the importance of diet for the prevention of cancer“In a recent review article published in Nutrients, researchers summarized the latest evidence on diet and its role in preventing cancer, aiming to update the American Cancer Society (ACS)...
Detecting Small Cell Transformation in Patients with Advanced EGFR Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma through Epigenomic cfDNA Profiling“Histologic transformation to small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a mechanism of treatment resistance in patients with advanced oncogene-driven...
This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year“A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?” NSW Dried Blood Spot HIV and Hepatitis C Testing Pilot: Mid-Point Evaluation, November 2016 – December 2020“The NSW DBS...
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