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At the 2016 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium, the message was clear and emphatic: caregivers should be viewed as both co-deliverers and co-recipients of healthcare services. Read More ›

Patients with cervical and endometrial cancers experience fewer gastrointestinal and genitourinary adverse events and have improved quality of life when they receive intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) compared with conventional radiation therapy. Read More ›

Delirium is an exceedingly prevalent syndrome among patients with cancer, but is underrecognized and undertreated. Read More ›

Many patients with advanced melanoma or advanced lung cancer have benefited from treatment with checkpoint inhibitors, which have helped extend survival to previously unthinkable lengths. Read More ›

Nausea is part of a symptom cluster associated with chemotherapy, but the experience of nausea may be a symptom cluster in and of itself. Read More ›

A novel compound called CPX-351 that combines 2 older drugs (cytarabine and daunorubicin) in a new drug-delivery platform improved survival among older patients with newly diagnosed, high-risk (secondary) acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Read More ›

Stomatitis is a dose-limiting toxicity associated with the use of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors, but new treatments can improve quality of life for patients suffering from this often debilitating condition. Read More ›

As a result of the FDA approval of the DigniCap (Dignitana) system last year, and the growing evidence that scalp cooling is effective in preventing chemotherapy-induced alopecia, the practice is steadily becoming more widespread in the United States. Read More ›

• Inotuzumab Ozogamicin Shows Benefit in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Adding Daratumumab to Combination Therapy Improves Progression-Free Survival in Patients with Multiple Myeloma
• Enzalutamide Superior to Bicalutamide in Patients with Prostate Cancer

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If you cannot get your patients with lung cancer to stop smoking, at least encourage them to exercise. Read More ›