Cancer patients are increasingly messaging their oncology care teams through patient portals, but many health systems have started to bill for this messaging.
In an analysis of more than 10,000 cancer clinical trials, less than half had results reported within 1 year of trial completion.
Engaging in vigorous physical activity for 3 to 4 minutes per day is associated with a decrease in the risk of cancer among adults who typically don’t exercise, new research suggests.
From 15 to 40 years after diagnosis, pediatric cancer survivors have a roughly 4-fold higher risk of death than the general population, a study suggests.
Compared with the general population, survivors of childhood and adolescent cancers have an increased risk of 6 major psychiatric disorders.
Children prescribed a medication containing a phthalate had a 19% higher risk of developing any childhood cancer.
Researchers sought to measure the risk of long-term neurocognitive outcomes in survivors of osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma.
Less than 10% of radiotherapy recommendations in 2020 NCCN guidelines were category 1 recommendations.
Respondents said some essential cancer drugs had substantial out-of-pocket costs, and some posed a high risk of catastrophic expenditure.
The AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Task Force recommends keeping changes to clinical trial practices that were prompted by the pandemic.
