Review finds fine-tuned AI model matches larger model in simulated lung cancer screening conversations
Small AI Model Beats Big Tech in Lung Cancer Chat
This evaluation review assesses a fine-tuned open-source AI model for lung cancer screening conversations, comparing it to a larger propriet…
A specialized, smaller AI model understands patient worries better than a huge, expensive system while keeping patients safe.
Microsimulation review models overdiagnosis and false positives for multicancer screening in Canada
Screening for Cancer May Find Too Much
This review uses a microsimulation model to estimate yearly and cumulative lifetime probabilities of overdiagnosis and false positives for…
New cancer blood tests might find slow-growing tumors that would never cause sickness, leading to unnecessary treatment and side effects for…
Review of observational data on vaccine antibody levels in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Do routine vaccines work normally for children fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia?
This narrative review synthesizes observational data regarding routine childhood measles and varicella zoster virus vaccines in children wit…
Children with leukemia have lower antibody levels after measles and chickenpox vaccines, but their immune cells still function well, suggest…
FDA Approves Vanflyta (quizartinib) for Newly Diagnosed FLT3-ITD-Positive AML in Adults
FDA approves new drug called Vanflyta for a specific type of blood cancer in adults
Vanflyta is approved in combination with induction and consolidation chemotherapy, and as maintenance monotherapy, for adult patients with n…
FDA approves Vanflyta to treat acute myeloid leukemia in adults with a specific genetic change that makes the cancer harder to manage.
Deutenzalutamide improves rPFS in mCRPC after abiraterone and docetaxel progression
New Pill Slows Advanced Prostate Cancer After Other Drugs Fail
A randomized phase III trial in 417 patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer after progression on or intolerance to abi…
A new daily pill slowed advanced prostate cancer progression by 42 percent in men whose disease grew despite standard hormone therapy and ch…
Registry-based systematic review maps non-pharmacological cancer trials in Africa
Are lifestyle changes for cancer in Africa being studied enough, or do we need more local trials?
This registry-based systematic review analyzed 53 trials of lifestyle and non-pharmacological interventions for cancer patients in Africa.
Advice from wealthy nations may not work in Africa, where most cancer lifestyle trials happen in Egypt while Kenya and Nigeria are largely i…
Reiki reduced pain and improved quality of life in hospitalized children with leukemia aged 5-7
Reiki Helps Kids With Leukemia Feel Less Pain
This double-blind randomized controlled trial of 66 hospitalized children with leukemia aged 5-7 years compared Reiki with pseudo-Reiki and …
A gentle hand on the forehead helped children aged five to seven with leukemia feel less pain and improve their quality of life during hospi…
Combining chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and high-dose radiation achieved remission in a patient with cervical esophageal adenocarcinoma
Rare throat cancer vanishes after bold three-pronged treatment
This case report describes a 39-year-old male with cervical esophageal adenocarcinoma treated with standard chemotherapy and immunotherapy c…
A 39-year-old man with rare throat cancer reached complete remission after doctors combined chemo, immunotherapy, and high-dose radiation.
Systematic review of radionuclide theranostics in lung cancer patients
Smart Cancer Tracker Finds Lung Tumors and Fights Back
This systematic review evaluated radionuclide theranostics for patients with lung cancer.
Tiny radioactive 'smart bombs' can spot lung cancer cells on scans and then destroy them from the inside when other treatments fail.
Narrative review discusses dual role of senescent cells in cancer immunity and emerging therapeutic strategies
Old Cells Can Fight Cancer
This narrative review examines the complex role of cellular senescence in cancer, specifically focusing on inducing senescence in tumor cell…
Old cells in your body can either kill tumors or help them grow, so new drugs aim to turn these zombie cells into powerful cancer fighters s…
Radiotherapy de-escalation strategies show reduced toxicity but modest clinical benefits in head and neck cancer cohorts
Smarter Radiation for Head and Neck Cancer May Spare Patients Misery
This narrative review examines radiotherapy de-escalation strategies for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and HPV-related oropharyngeal…
Doctors are testing gentler radiation plans that protect quality of life for people with throat, mouth, and neck cancers facing harsh side e…
Post-pancreatectomy chemotherapy linked to longer survival in pancreatic cancer, especially late-stage disease
Chemo After Pancreatic Cancer Surgery: Who Truly Benefits?
A retrospective cohort study of 258 patients who underwent pancreatectomy for pancreatic cancer found that adjuvant chemotherapy was associa…
Chemo after pancreatic cancer surgery extends life for later-stage patients, but those with very early tumors may not see extra survival tim…