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BARCELONA—The accuracy of radiation targeting using image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) was significantly associated with overall survival in a study of a large cohort of patients treated with IGRT for t

BARCELONA—The accuracy of radiation targeting using image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) was significantly associated with overall survival in a study of a large cohort of patients treated with IGRT for their lung and esophageal cancers. reported at the 2018 European Society For Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 37) annual conference (ABSTRACT OC-0322, “Residual setup errors after IGRT are […]

BARCELONA—Women who develop breast symptoms—especially lumps—between regular mammography screening examinations are up to four times more likely to have a diagnosis of breast cancer soon after than wo

BARCELONA—Women who develop breast symptoms—especially lumps—between regular mammography screening examinations are up to four times more likely to have a diagnosis of breast cancer soon after than women who do not have symptoms according to findings of a massive study of routine mammography from Finland reported at the 2018 European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC 11). […]

BARCELONA—More pre-menopausal women who have estrogen receptor (ER) positive advanced breast cancer could be spared chemotherapy—according to latest findings from the MONALEESA-7 double-blind randomiz

BARCELONA—A multicenter nationwide Italian study of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) treated with breast conservative surgery (BCS) and whole breast radiotherapy (RT) has updated risk cri

BARCELONA—Not only was breast conserving therapy safer than mastectomy for most low-risk patients in the large randomized EORTC 10041/BIG 03-04 MINDACT trial reported at the 2018 European Breast Cance

OMAHA, NEBRASKA—Children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy achieved improved functioning of the prefrontal cortex regions of their brains in a study using intense exercise sessions—designed as games—in w

BARCELONA—Healthy women with BRCA1 mutations who opted for bilateral prophylactic mastectomy had their lives prolonged in comparison with similar women who did not. But in healthy women with the BRCA2

BARCELONA—Patients treated for BRCA-associated breast cancers could be given more accurate estimates of the risk for developing second primaries of the contralateral breast by combining polygenic risk

ATLANTA—Six months follow up of the Select-D randomized open label multicenter pilot study with 406 patients has confirmed that therapy with the direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) rivaroxaban was a safe

ATLANTA—Six months follow up of the Select-D randomized open label multicenter pilot study with 406 patients has confirmed that therapy with the direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) rivaroxaban was a safe