The simple question: “Would you like to talk about what this means?” can lead to more thorough discussions about scan results and prognoses, better preparing patients to make informed treatment decisions.
A review of data from 2 Danish cancer registries revealed the incidence of overdiagnosis of tumors not likely to affect a patient’s health during her lifetime and diagnosis of advanced tumors in a program offering biennial mammography for women aged 50 to 69 years.
Although previous clinical trials have demonstrated that antiangiogenetic chemotherapy is not effective in GBM, researchers conducted a retrospective of review of perfusion MR images to determine if a phenotypic subtype of GBM may respond to antiangiogenic chemotherapy.
Expression of this hormone receptor may indicate a less aggressive subtype of triple-negative breast cancer and better prognosis for patients with the disease.
Applying evolutionary theory improves the accuracy of predicting in which patients Barrett’s esophagus will progress to esophageal adenocarcinoma.
Presence of certain microRNAs (miRNAs) is predictive of response to TKIs and prognosis for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).
Survival among women age 40 years and younger with breast cancer appears to vary according to breast cancer subtype, with age particularly prognostic for women with luminal type breast cancers.
Most patients with advanced cancer report far more optimistic expectations for survival prognosis than their oncologists because patients misunderstand their oncologists’ clinical judgment.
Patients with kataegis, a recently discovered phenomenon in which multiple mutations cluster in a few hotspots in a genome, have less invasive tumors and better prognoses.
Telomere length is predictive for determining which children treated for AML are at highest risk for delayed recovery, a finding that may have significant implications for treatment-related morbidity and mortality.
