Jill Murphy, Associate Editor

For patients with no previous PARP treatment and multiple prior lines of therapy, PARPs may be an appropriate choice.

Opdivo-based combinations show benefit for patients with esophageal cancer who are often diagnosed after their disease has spread and would benefit from new therapeutic options.

Staying educated in the formal and informal health care settings surrounding state-of-the-art cancer care in the community practice is essential for success.

Study is the first to examine how the choice of blood pressure medications influences the long-term risk of heart disease, stroke, and heart failure in a patient population with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

Study indicates patients with ovarian cancer frequently receive aggressive end-of-life care despite industry guidelines that emphasize quality of life for those with advanced disease.

According to previous studies, youth who are obese when they begin chemotherapy are more than twice as likely to have remaining cancer cells after 1 month of treatment compared to their lean counterparts.

For the study, the research team modeled COVID-19 transmission rates and the optimal allocation of an initially limited vaccine supply in the United States under a variety of scenarios.

Although the technology to remotely connect physician and patient has been in place for years, its use was limited until the spread of COVID-19.

Further, the findings indicate that rapid screens can predict infection with nearly the same precision as antibody tests conducted in a lab, which could be useful for providers.

The device remains the same, but will have a larger cartridge that contains 4, 1 mg doses.

Understanding breast cancer and which patients may be more vulnerable to long-term treatment effects and which patients may benefit most, can help oncologists design the best personalized neoadjuvant and adjuvant human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-targeted therapy.

The study, conducted by investigators from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Coalition (BCSC), had an objective to quantify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on both breast cancer screening and diagnostic mammography services in the United States.

The research team analyzed CD4-cell gene expression data from a study of HIV-infected people in Africa and Asia.

The overuse of antibiotics in hospitals can lead to the emergence of drug-resistant strains of bacteria or outbreaks of infections by bacteria, such as Clostridiodes difficile (C. difficile).

Cardiometabolic health risk factors include metabolic syndrome, a cluster of disorders that include excess fat around the waist, insulin resistance, and high blood pressure.

The researchers analyzed millions of pharmacy transactions by more than 600,000 people in the United States from 2017 to 2019 in order to get a better sense of how vouchers and other point-of-sale co-payment offsets are used.

The team discovered a correlation between the implementation of Henry Ford’s universal mask policy and a significant drop in the rate at which its health care workers tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

The study also analyzed the relationship between ultra-processed food and drink products with 2 other cancer types.

Addressing sleep symptoms during menopause may reduce susceptibility to weight gain.

The studies had a minimum follow-up period of 24 weeks and reported at least 1 event of breast cancer or benign breast neoplasm, which included 90,360 participants.

The researchers used cross-sectional surveys, which were conducted with a convenience sample of rural community pharmacists who were part of a rural community pharmacy practice-based research network.

Daily national surveys by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) show that although COVID-19 vaccine uptake has increased, the proportion of vaccine-hesitant adults has remained unchanged.

The analysis found that more than twice as many women who received olaparib were still alive 5 years after the beginning of the study with no progression of their cancer.

The STEP1 study included 1961 adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 27 or higher with at least 1 weight-related health condition, or a BMI of 30 or higher, without diabetes.

Although ART has helped improve the health of those with HIV, they are at a greater risk of developing complications related to chronic inflammation, such as cardiovascular disease.

The plot clinical trial included 40 men and is believed to be the first published study to use progesterone to treat male COVID-19 patients whose lung functions have been compromised by the virus.

When analyzing the odds of death or hospitalization due to COVID-19, the researchers found that use of cytotoxic chemotherapy did not predict increased risk for either.

The researchers analyzed body composition data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2004) and cardiovascular disease data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2014).

This was the first genome-wide association study of skin pigmentation in African Americans, according to the study authors.

Clinicians have been searching for accurate, reliable, non-invasive diagnostic tools to differentiate early stage, less dangerous, and more treatable stages of the disease from the aggressive, high-grade and likely-to-spread forms.