Review: Pain of Radiation Therapy Increases With Frequency of Its Use
The authors of this review present key epidemiologic data about cancer patients vulnerable for each pain syndrome along with evidence for the management for each condition.
Oncology
Review of Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Hard-to-Reach Populations
The COVID-19 pandemic sheds new light on existing access challenges in preventive health care.
Opposing Trajectories of Cancer Outcomes and Financial Concerns
Investigators at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center explored the potential effects of financial concerns on the overall and cancer-specific survival for patients with head and neck cancers.
More Advanced Cancer at Presentation Possible Effect of Pandemic
Results may be due to treatment postponements and deferrals that were common at the beginning of the pandemic.
Medicine Meets Magical Realism in Night Theater, a Novel by Oncologist and Researcher Vikram Paralkar
In a remote Indian village, a murdered family of three walks into a rural clinic asking a surgeon for help. If he can mend the wounds of the dead before sunrise, the family will live again. Stunned, surgeon Saheb takes on the challenge nonetheless—just like doctors do in everyday life, not knowing what they may…
How Breast Cancer Patients Really Feel About Endocrine Therapy
Conventional quality-of-life studies usually don’t measure what’s meaningful to patients.
Coffee Consumption Affects Outcomes in Advanced, Metastatic CRC
A prospective observational study was conducted to assess the impact of diet and lifestyle on risk for disease progression among individuals with colorectal cancer.
Opposition to a European Patent for CAR-T Therapy: A Mechanism to Control High Drug Prices?
The nongovernmental organizations argued that patents for this CAR-T should never have been granted in the first place because the underlying technology is not novel.
How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Affect Cancer Clinical Trials
Risks of moving clinical trials online include missing key information about the patient experience — and higher dropout rates could also impair the overall quality of trials.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Risk of Extraintestinal Cancers
A team of investigators conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the risk of extraintestinal cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
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