Head & Neck/Thyroid Cancers
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ASCO details how to manage ongoing cancer drug shortage
“This guidance document aims to support clinicians, as they navigate the complexities of treatment planning amid the drug shortage.”
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Pervasive ‘forever chemicals’ linked to thyroid cancer?
“Maybe there’s a correlation there, but you’d need to investigate this in much bigger samples, with more controls, and better data, to understand...
Conference Coverage
Can some patients with esophageal cancer avoid surgery?
About one-third of patients with esophageal cancer who have a compete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy may be able to avoid surgery....
Conference Coverage
Head, neck cancer radiotherapy regimen saves time when resources limited
A randomized controlled trial conducted in low- to middle-income countries showed that 11.5 days could be safely shaved off a conventional...
Conference Coverage
Thyroid cancer increase observed in transgender female veterans
“I would characterize the trends in our data as being potentially suggestive or hypothesis generating – not conclusive.”
Conference Coverage
Measures of PTH predict postthyroidectomy hypocalcemia
“This measure can serve as a guide for discharging patients the same day, with instructions to return if they develop any symptoms of hypocalcemia...
Conference Coverage
Triple therapy boosts anaplastic thyroid cancer survival
"The very long median overall survival in the study's neoadjuvant group is quite remarkable for a group of patients who used to have a very poor...
Latest News
High rate of subsequent cancers in MCC
Patients with cutaneous Merkel cell carcinoma face a higher risk of developing other primary cancers
From the Journals
New cancer survival calculator focuses on oral cancer
The broader aim of developing the tool is for this new approach to be “applicable for developing future prognostic models of cancer and noncancer...
From the Journals
Radiation approach improves swallowing in head, neck cancer
“DO-IMRT should be considered a new standard of care.”
From the Journals
Liquid biopsy shows big promise in oropharyngeal cancer
“The use of this technology shows remarkable promise to transform the ability to identify and follow patients with HPV-related disease.”