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Total annual hospital costs could be reduced by rapid candidemia identification
4/12/2015
A new study describes a model that estimates the economic consequences of using the T2Candida® Panel (a novel diagnostic product that provides Candida detection) as an adjunct to the current...
No association between lung cancer risk in women and reproductive history or hormone use
4/11/2015
The Women's Health Initiative Studies, a large prospective study of lung cancer, found no strong associations between lung cancer risk and a wide range of reproductive history variables and only...
New treatment for drug-resistant breast cancer found
4/11/2015
Scientists have discovered how HER2-positive breast cancer develops resistance to treatment, along with a new form of treatment that can prevent resistance from even occurring.
New Waldenström's drug shows sustained benefit at two years
4/10/2015
The most recent results from a clinical trial show that ibrutinib, a newly approved drug for Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia, continued to control the rare blood cancer, with 95 percent of...
Delay of surgery for melanoma common among Medicare patients
4/10/2015
In a study that included more than 32,000 cases of melanoma among Medicare patients, approximately 1 in 5 experienced a delay of surgery that was longer than 1.
A downward trend for new cases of pediatric melanoma
4/10/2015
Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer that has been increasing in incidence in adults over the past 40 years.
Study results enables prediction of survival for small bowel cancer for the first time
4/10/2015
An innovative UK study is helping cancer specialists for the first time to predict survival of people with cancer of the small intestine (bowel), and understand how best to treat them.
Ascites is the buildup of fluid in the abdominal cavity that occurs in patients with certain diseases.
In the sea, a deadly form of leukemia is catching
4/10/2015
Outbreaks of leukemia that have devastated some populations of soft-shell clams along the east coast of North America for decades can be explained by the spread of cancerous tumor cells from one...
Axillary lymph node evaluation performed frequently in ductal carcinoma in situ
4/10/2015
Axillary lymph node evaluation is performed frequently in women with ductal carcinoma in situ breast cancer, despite recommendations generally against such an assessment procedure in women with...