(MedPage Today) — SAN FRANCISCO — A single course of low-dose radiation therapy led to significant reductions in pain and improvements in physical function in mild-to-moderate knee osteoarthritis (OA), a randomized trial from South Korea showed…
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Proton Beam Therapy No Better Than Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer
(MedPage Today) — SAN FRANCISCO — Treatment with intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) or intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) resulted in similarly low rates of late toxicity in patients with locally advanced oropharyngeal cancer…
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Adjuvant RT to Thwart Bladder Cancer Recurrence 'Knocked It Out of the Park'
(MedPage Today) — SAN FRANCISCO — Radiation therapy (RT) after surgery for high-risk muscle-invasive bladder cancer significantly reduced the rate of local recurrence and improved survival, according to a randomized trial from India.
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Nonsurgical Management of Rectal Cancer Gets More Support for Selected Patients
(MedPage Today) — SAN FRANCISCO — More than half of patients with higher-risk rectal cancer avoided aggressive surgery for at least 2 years following short-course radiation therapy (RT) and chemotherapy consolidation, a prospective study showed…
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Hormone Therapy Added to Radiotherapy Benefits Some With Recurrent Prostate Cancer
(MedPage Today) — SAN FRANCISCO — For patients with recurrent prostate cancer, those with a certain subtype had clinically meaningful benefits when apalutamide (Erleada) was added to salvage radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy, a randomized…
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Practice-Influencing Results in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer
(MedPage Today) — SAN FRANCISCO — Men with advanced prostate cancer and limited metastatic recurrence lived more than twice as long without disease progression when they received metastasis-directed radioactive therapy in addition to radiation…
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After Massive Shrimp Recalls, FDA Finds Radioactive Contamination in Spices Too
(MedPage Today) — Federal regulators have detected possible radioactive contamination in a second food product sent to the U.S. from Indonesia, even as recalls of potentially tainted shrimp continue to grow. The discovery adds to questions about…
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Another Twist to the Screening Mammography Debate
(MedPage Today) — Women who continued screening mammography into their 80s had earlier-stage, lower-risk breast cancers and better outcomes as compared with women who did not have a recent mammogram, a retrospective record review showed.
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Skipping First Breast Cancer Screening Has Long-Term Consequences
(MedPage Today) — Skipping a screening mammogram at first eligibility significantly increased the risk of developing more advanced breast cancers and dying of breast cancer over the next 25 years, according to a large study from Sweden.
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Molecular Imaging Boosted Cancer Detection in Women With Dense Breasts
(MedPage Today) — Supplementing digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) with molecular breast imaging (MBI) increased the detection of cancers in women with dense breasts, a prospective study suggested.
In an analysis involving nearly 3,000 women…