Radiation for Asymptomatic Bone Metastases May Improve Cancer Survival Fewer skeletal events, less pain unexpectedly followed by longer life Oct 26, 2022
Sexual Health Not Part of Discussion for Women Undergoing Brachytherapy Much less likely than men to be queried about sexual function when receiving treatment Oct 25, 2022
Shorter Course of Radiation Therapy Proves Mettle in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Hypofractionation matches standard RT for survival and toxicity in a third less time Oct 25, 2022
New Standard-of-Care Therapy for Advanced Liver Cancer Stereotactic body radiotherapy plus sorafenib improves survival versus targeted drug alone Oct 24, 2022
Rapid Radiotherapy Technique Shows Promise in First Human Trial FLASH relieved pain in most patients with bone metastases, with few side effects Oct 24, 2022
High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Boost in Prostate Cancer Improves QOL Patients report better urinary and bowel function outcomes Oct 24, 2022
Mepitel Film Beats Standard for Stopping Radiation Dermatitis in Breast Cancer "The most improvement in skin toxicity that I have seen in many years," expert says Oct 19, 2022
Risk of Secondary Breast Cancer After Childhood Cancer Is Declining, Study Suggests Improvement credited to changes in chest RT, attenuated by use of pelvic RT, anthracyclines Oct 13, 2022
This One Risk Factor Dominates for Soft Tissue Sarcoma After Breast Cancer Risk is low but appears to have modifiable components Oct 13, 2022
SABR for Oligometastatic Cancer Turns in 'Acceptable' Rates of Toxicity Rates of grade 2 or higher toxicities less than those observed in landmark SABR-COMET study Oct 03, 2022
Radiation Oncology Residents Report Deficits in Training During the Pandemic About half worry about job prospects Sep 19, 2022
Long-Term ADT With Radiation Helps Prevent Post-Prostatectomy Metastases However, no benefit seen with short-term hormone therapy versus radiotherapy alone Sep 13, 2022
Add-On Pembrolizumab Misses in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Post hoc data point to possible benefit in patients with higher PD-L1 levels Sep 11, 2022
Study: Microwave Ablation for Lung Nodules Effective as Last Resort Good option for patients who can't have surgery or radiotherapy, surgeon says Sep 08, 2022
10-Year Follow-Up Confirms Benefit of Chemoradiotherapy in MIBC Patients Findings "supported a change in clinical practice" Sep 01, 2022
Florida Oncologist Presumed Lost at Sea The Coast Guard recently suspended its search for Chaundre Cross, MD, of Naples Aug 19, 2022
Patients With Head/Neck Cancer See Lower Stroke Risk With Initial Surgery Enough reason to prefer the scalpel to definitive radiotherapy? Aug 12, 2022
A Better Way to Irradiate Lethal CNS Metastases? Randomized trial makes case for proton craniospinal irradiation for leptomeningeal spread Jun 08, 2022
Forego Radiotherapy for Women With Low-Risk Luminal A Breast Cancer? Study shows 5-year local recurrence rate of 2.3% with lumpectomy and endocrine therapy alone Jun 07, 2022
Radiation Alone May Suffice for Some Nasopharyngeal Cancer Chemotherapy adds little benefit in intermediate grade lesions Jun 06, 2022
Prone Beats Supine Positioning for WBRT in Women With Large Breasts Prone position led to lower rates of moist desquamation May 27, 2022
RT Prior to Mastectomy, Reconstruction Shows Promise U.K. study demonstrates low complication rates and good aesthetic results Apr 08, 2022
Cardiac Monitoring Finds Arrhythmias, but Treatment Did Not Improve Outcomes No differences in mortality, hospitalization between monitored patients and control patients Apr 05, 2022
Radioiodine for Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer: Yea or Nay? Randomized study finds no meaningful difference in events of abnormalities between groups Mar 09, 2022
Hopes Dashed for Novel Osteoarthritis Treatment Noninvasive therapy looked like a sure winner until trial results came in Mar 08, 2022
Novel Therapies Active in Head and Neck Cancers High response rate with oncolytic virus plus immunotherapy in cutaneous lesions Feb 28, 2022
Older Patients With Low-Risk DCIS May Not Benefit From Surgery, Radiation Low rate of invasive recurrence, benefits of surgery and RT limited to patients under 70 Jan 05, 2022
In Early Prostate Cancer, Black Men Do Better With Radiotherapy Than White Men "Unexpected" finding holds even though Black men are more likely to have high-risk features Dec 29, 2021
Black Women Most at Risk for Post-Surgical Lymphedema Black women seemed to have triple the odds of swelling after axillary lymph node dissection Dec 08, 2021
Focused Ultrasound Approved for Advanced Parkinson's Expanded indication includes medication-refractory PD patients with motor problems Nov 05, 2021
Tumor Volume-Adapted RT Leads to Good Lung Cancer Control With Low Toxicity No recurrence at 1 year in 90% of cases with primary tumors, metastases, synchronous disease Nov 02, 2021
Primary RT Fares Well in Abbreviated Trial for HPV Oropharyngeal Cancer No deaths, progression with RT after early termination because of deaths in surgery arm Oct 29, 2021
Mixed Results With RT Plus Short-Term ADT in Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer No survival benefit, but risk of biochemical failure, metastasis, cancer death improved Oct 28, 2021
Meta-Analysis Reaffirms Role of ADT With Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer Prolonged adjuvant ADT also improved survival Oct 27, 2021
Extended-Field RT Boosts Survival in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer Double-digit improvements in OS, DFS, extrapelvic control in well-selected patients Oct 27, 2021
Gentler Adjuvant RT Could Be Viable for Some HPV-Positive Oral Cancers Those with extranodal extension didn't fare as well Oct 27, 2021
Gene Test Finds Gradations in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Study of untreated cancers prognostic for metastasis, cancer mortality, overall survival Oct 26, 2021
No Survival Benefit for Internal Mammary Node Irradiation in Breast Cancer Women with medially or centrally located tumors may be candidates, however, says researcher Oct 26, 2021
Potential New Standard for Post-Prostatectomy Radiotherapy Side effects at 2 years similar with hypofractionated versus conventional RT Oct 25, 2021
