Worse Cancer Outcomes for Elderly HIV-Infected Patients
Significantly higher rates of relapse or death for HIV-infected men with prostate cancer, women with breast cancer.
Significantly higher rates of relapse or death for HIV-infected men with prostate cancer, women with breast cancer.
Greater reproducibility and higher concordance for melanoma staging observed with implementation of AJCC 8.
An assessment of more than 71,000 patients with leukemia demonstrated the difference in outcomes for patients admitted to hospital on the weekend vs weekday. Findings were presented at the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Sarcopenia and adiposity measures may help clinicians steer management strategies for some patients with breast cancer.
Although dynapenia and weak HGS is associated with poor outcomes in patients with cancer, it is not routinely assessed in this population.
Adverse event rates were similar in both trial groups, though patients treated with TTFields were much more likely to have mild to moderate skin toxicity.
More public tolerance for health care inequalities has been observed in the United States than other countries.
Program provides physical, nutritional, and psychological guidance
The researchers hope the results will lead to an increase in clinicians offering trials to their patients and an increase in women volunteering to participate in trials.
Outcomes improved with short-course radiation and delay to surgery of 4 to 8 weeks.