Researchers have used a geriatric rating scale to show that childhood cancer survivors experience accelerated aging and have a higher risk of premature death than the general population.
Palliative care does not improve health-related quality of life among patients undergoing curative-intent surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer, a study suggests.
Patients with HR+, HER2- metastatic breast cancer whose disease progressed on endocrine therapy (ET) and a CDK4/6 inhibitor have better progression-free survival if they switch ET and receive ribociclib than if they switch ET alone, a phase 2 study suggests.
A new study quantified survival in lung cancer patients by smoking status and revealed other potentially actionable risk factors associated with survival.
Genomic profiling can reveal actionable mutations in patients with cancer of unknown primary but can be limited by a lack of sufficient tissue, research suggests.