2007 February - 8 articles
The day my friend called me to say that she was discontinuing chemotherapy, I was angry and disillusioned. My first comment was “You can’t! The longer they can keep you alive, the better chance you have of surviving. There are new drugs every day.” [...
Minimally invasive procedures such as percutaneous cementoplasty can provide immediate pain relief and can restore mechanical stability for patients with bone metastases who are not candidates for surgery or who show resistance to radiotherapy or ana...
Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin malignancy in men. Almost all men who die from prostate cancer have hormone-refractory prostate cancer with metastasis to bone. Emerging supportive treatments—including chemotherapy, bisphosphonates, and su...
Chemotherapy-induced diarrhea (cid) is a common side effect of cancer treatment and can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Diarrhea is frequently severe enough to require a dose reduction of, a delay in, or a discontinuation of chemotherapy....
Questions: What is the role of single-agent interleukin-2 (il-2) in the treatment of adults with metastatic melanoma? If there is a role for single-agent il-2, what patient population can appropriately be considered for treatment? If there is a role...
Questions: What is the role of single-agent temozolomide in the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma? In comparison with single-agent temozolomide, does the addition of interferon-α to temozolomide improve disease-free survival, overall sur...
With widespread utilization of noninvasive cross-sectional abdominal imaging [...]
Most cancer patients die from advanced [...]
