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Physical and Mental Care of Patients is Meaningful During Cancer Treatment
May 28th 2021A doctor from the department of radiation oncology at Emory’s Clifton Campus describes a nurse at her institution who goes “above and beyond” her call of duty by training her colleagues and making her patients feel comfortable.
Three Tenets to Prevent Stivarga-Related Side Effects, Improve Survival and Quality of Life
May 28th 2021Although Stivarga may cause side effects after initial treatment, a dose escalation strategy and the preemptive use of steroid creams may help patients to tolerate the regimen better, while allowing them to capitalize on the agent’s survival benefit.
Second-Line Chemotherapy Combo Shows Survival Benefit in Patients With Advanced Liver Cancer
May 26th 2021The study results, according to the authors, suggest that the combination of folinic acid plus the chemotherapies fluorouracil and oxaliplatin should become the standard-of-care therapy in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer whose disease progressed with cisplatin and gemcitabine.
Additional Efforts Necessary to Implement New Recommended Age Range for Colorectal Cancer Screenings
May 25th 2021In an accompanying editorial to the recently updated U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation for colorectal cancer screenings, doctors suggested additional measures that would help increase the screening rate among eligible adults and potentially lower the mortality rate.