Jill Stein

Patients with prostate cancer can expect better sexual function after a robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) if they maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Field-directed treatment with the investigational topical agent ingenol mebutate has been shown to be effective for actinic keratoses on the head and body.

Marital status is an independent predictor of disease-related mortality and overall mortality in men with prostate cancer.

Women who have been previously treated for early-stage breast cancer are much less likely to complain of hot flashes if they remain within 10% of their prediagnosis weight.

The administration of nab-paclitaxel plus carboplatin results in a significantly higher ORR than conventional solvent-based paclitaxel with carboplatin in previously untreated patients with advanced NSCLC.

More than a third of cancer survivors report ongoing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder several years after being diagnosed with cancer.

New data appears to undercut prior research by suggesting that neither NSAIDs nor statins influence the development of renal cell carcinoma.

The addition of bevacizumab to first-line carboplatin-paclitaxel did not prolong survival in Medicare recipients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Young women who have recently used DMPA for at least 1 year have more than twice the risk of invasive breast cancer as young women who do not report recent use of the injectable contraceptive.

Semuloparin significantly decreases the risk of thromboembolic events in cancer patients initiating chemotherapy compared with placebo, and without a hike in major bleeding.

Liver surgery for colorectal cancer hepatic metastases has, for the most part, a minimal and brief negative impact on patient-reported outcomes.

Breast cancer survivors who are younger, closer to the time of surgery, or have upper-extremity lymphedema may be less likely to undergo repeat mammography.

Within a given county in the United States, the presence of a dermatologist is associated with a lower melanoma mortality rate compared with counties where there is no dermatologist.

Patients are less likely to complete colorectal cancer screening if their physician recommended colonoscopy rather than recommending fecal occult blood testing.

Roughly one-third of women with early-stage breast cancer develop intolerable adverse effects during aromatase inhibitor therapy.

In men with primary squamous cell carcinoma of the penis who have undergone surgery that removed all glanular epithelium a maximum 12-month follow-up period is recommended.

Men with low-risk prostate cancer who have opted for active surveillance are about half as likely to experience pathologic progression or abandon active surveillance if they take a 5-ARI.

US investigators have found that suicide rates in recent years have significantly increased in patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer.

Dutasteride may postpone disease progression in men with low-risk prostate cancer who have opted for an active surveillance strategy.

Minimally invasive transoral robotic surgery, used alone or combined with adjuvant therapy, provides good functional and oncologic outcomes in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Coronary artery disease and prostate cancer have been shown to share several modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors including age, race, family history, and possibly diet.

The addition of thalidomide to chemoradiotherapy provides no survival benefit and increases toxicity in patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

Cutaneous melanoma is becoming increasingly common in young adults, with an 8-fold increase among young adult females and a 4-fold increase among young adult males.

Monitoring bone health and ensuring adequate calcium and vitamin D intake in postmenopausal women who are taking exemestane for the primary prevention of breast cancer is essential.

Adding oxaliplatin to conventional chemotherapy increases survival in patients with advanced colon cancer in a broad range of community practice settings.

Being newly diagnosed with lung or colorectal cancer is often not sufficient to motivate cigarette smokers to quit.

Patients who undergo chemotherapy for breast cancer may develop fatigue that remains problematic long after they complete treatment.

Preoperative gemcitabine plus cisplatin followed by radical surgery is feasible, tolerable, and active in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.

Patients who are obese before being diagnosed with colorectal cancer are more likely to die of their disease than patients who are at a normal weight prediagnosis.

Researchers are reporting better survival rates in women with invasive EOC and germline mutations in the tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 than in patients who are noncarriers.