Search results for "Cancer"
ACP commits to finding health care for unhoused people
Amid an increasing housing crisis, ACP developed a policy paper to address this population's health care needs.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/04/acp-commits-to-finding-health-care-for-unhoused-people.htm
1 Apr 2024
MKSAP Quiz: Follow-up visit for ovarian cancer
A 62-year-old woman is evaluated during a follow-up visit for recently diagnosed stage IIIA high-grade serous ovarian cancer. She underwent total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and completed six cycles of chemotherapy with cisplatin and paclitaxel. The patient's paternal aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 52 years. Following a physical exam and lab studies, what is the most appropriate test to perform next?
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/29/3.htm
29 Jan 2019
Consider menopause's impact ‘beyond the bikini area’
While 80% of women have menopausal vasomotor symptoms, 70% of them go untreated.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/09/consider-menopauses-impact-beyond-the-bikini-area.htm
1 Sep 2023
More patients undergoing active surveillance for lower-risk prostate cancers
Use of active surveillance or watchful waiting for prostate cancer rose from 2010 to 2018, although uptake was lower in men with multiple positive biopsy cores and those who were Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic, had a lower income, or lived in a rural area.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/04/11/4.htm
11 Apr 2023
Combat cardiac risks of cancer therapies
One challenge of treating cancer is preventing, diagnosing, and treating heart failure in at-risk patients, and figuring out which patients would benefit from intervention.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/09/combat-cardiac-risks-of-cancer-therapies.htm
1 Sep 2018
Decision support intervention for clinicians helped decrease low-value care
A tool to increase clinicians' attention to the possible harms of overtreatment among older adults, among other aims, was associated with a greater decline in prostate-specific antigen testing, unspecified urine testing, and diabetes overtreatment compared with an education-only approach.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/02/06/4.htm
6 Feb 2024
GLP-1 receptor agonists associated with thyroid cancer
Patients taking a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist had about one and a half times the risk of developing thyroid cancer compared to similar controls, according to an observational French study.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2022/11/22/2.htm
22 Nov 2022
Approval for cancer drug; proposed ban for gloves
This update covers approval of Crizotinib (Xalkori) to treat people with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer whose tumors have an ROS-1 gene alteration.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/05/fda.htm
1 May 2016
Ductal carcinoma in situ linked to higher long-term risks of breast cancer, mortality
Among women who had surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ, rates of developing invasive breast cancer later were lower with more intensive treatment and larger final surgical margins, an English study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/02/4.htm
2 Jun 2020
Higher fecal hemoglobin concentration on FIT may support shorter screening interval
Patients with a hemoglobin concentration on fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) in the range directly below the positive result cutoff had significantly increased risk of adenoma on follow-up screening compared to those with lower results, a new analysis from Germany found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/11/07/2.htm
7 Nov 2023