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The prognosis for patients with biliary tract cancer is poor, and no standard palliative care has been defined. Now Austrian researchers report that adding cetuximab to gemcitabine and oxaliplatin (GEMOX) for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer results in a high overall response rate and good disease control and is well tolerated.

 

Age is an important factor when considering tamoxifen therapy for older women with early-stage breast cancer, according to a large retrospective study presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. The findings indicate that older women treated with conservative surgery and radiation therapy (CS + RT) derive only limited benefit from tamoxifen.

 

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have insufficient levels of vitamin D at the time of diagnosis are at greater risk of cancer progression and death than patients with adequate levels, Mayo Clinic researchers have found.

 

A large National Cancer Institute (NCI)–sponsored study has shown for the first time that a screening method can reduce deaths from lung cancer by detecting cancers at relatively early stages.

 

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