AACR 2019: Surgery associated with increased survival for patients with HER2-positive stage 4 breast cancer
Surgery was associated with higher survival rates for patients with HER2-positive (HER2 ) stage 4…
Browsing: surgery
Cancer growth in the body could originate from a single cell – target it to revolutionise treatment
Michael P. Lisanti, University of Salford Cancer remains a frightening and largely incurable disease. The…
SABCS 2018: Choice of surgery may affect quality of life for young breast cancer survivors
Even as more young women with breast cancer opt to have mastectomies, many experience a…
Study shows surgery and radiation extend survival of patients with limited metastatic lung cancer
Radiation or surgical removal of metastatic tumours provides a major survival advantage for lung cancer…
Study shows invasive lung cancer surgery can lead to long-term opioid use
Patients treated with more-invasive surgical techniques for a type of early-stage lung cancer are more…
Anti-inflammatory use during surgery could improve cancer outcomes
The world’s first clinical trial (SURGUVANT) evaluating anti-inflammatory use at the time of surgery in…
Active surveillance of lung subsolid nodules reduces unnecessary surgery and overtreatment
Subsolid nodules (SSN) can be considered a biomarker of lung cancer risk and should be…
Translating Research and Biomarkers
By Ian Olver AM for oncologynews.com.au The term translational research is broad but most often…
Erectile dysfunction drugs and flu vaccine may fight cancer after surgery
A new study suggests that a common treatment for erectile dysfunction combined with the flu…
In the eye of the medulloblastoma
Can genes normally expressed only in the eye be activated in brain tumours? Such a…