Adjuvant radiotherapy backed after melanoma node dissection

Adjuvant radiotherapy improves lymph node-field control in patients at high risk of relapse after therapeutic lymphadenectomy for metastatic melanoma, an...

Added complications with lateral lymph node dissection

Mesorectal excision with lateral lymph node dissection for lower rectal cancer results in substantially longer operating times and more complications...

Google guides cancer treatment

The strategy used by the search engine Google to determine which pages are most relevant for a search query can...

Second opinions on pathology could impact treatment

Secondary pathology reports should be routine for patients with node-negative breast cancer and ductal carcinoma because of the likelihood of...

Glucose, not insulin, linked to colorectal cancer risk

A new analysis from the Women’s Health Initiative has suggested that colorectal cancer risk is associated with elevated fasting glucose...

Elderly missing out on chemotherapy

Elderly patients with colorectal cancer are often "undertreated", with a patient’s age affecting an oncologist’s choice of treatment, an Australian...

US revokes breast cancer drug's licence

US health officials have revoked the authorisation of bevacizumab for breast cancer treatment, saying the drug has "not been shown...

Information tool for early menopause

Australian experts have come up with an information tool to 'fill a gap' in treating breast cancer in women with...

Prognostic tool accurately predicts survival

New prognostic tools for patients with advanced cancer in palliative care can reliably predict survival times, researchers find.

NSW 'disregard' for radiotherapy targets costs lives

Nearly 500 cancer patients are likely to die each year in NSW through the state government’s “disregard” for its own...

Call for more radiology funding

The Federal Government is under pressure to halt the decline in funding for cancer patients requiring radiology, and to index,...

Young adult cancer patients in no man’s land

Paediatric and medical oncologists need to work together to develop oncology services pitched to adolescents and young adults with cancer,...

Carboplatin safe in pregnancy

US research presented at COSA in Perth this week shows that not enough carboplatin crosses the placental barrier to have...

Older women missing out on breast cancer treatment

Experts say clinicians are partly to blame for over 75-year-olds not seeing the same reductions in breast-cancer mortality as their...

Earlier pill use linked to earlier breast cancers

Women who get breast cancer are likely to have been diagnosed with it earlier if they started taking the contraceptive...

Why do men over 75 get PSA tests?

At least a fifth of men aged 75 to 84 are having PSA tests every year, with little reason for...