Uninsured patients and those covered by Medicaid are far more likely to present with advanced-stage cancer at diagnosis than those with private coverage. Medscape Medical News
Consolidation treatment with radioactive yttrium-90 ibritumomab tiuxetan is feasible, well tolerated, and effective in untreated patients with follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Medscape Medical News
Several new agents are showing activity in refractory thyroid cancer, suggesting that a treatment paradigm shift is "not far off." Medscape Medical News
Toremifene reduces hot flashes and vertebral fractures in men with prostate cancer on androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer. Medscape Medical News
Children with this genetic variant, identified for the first time in a genome-wide association study, develop a particularly aggressive form of neuroblastoma. Medscape Medical News
Maintenance therapy with zoledronic acid and thalidomide in patients with multiple myeloma does not increase the risk of renal impairment, according to a report posted on March 31st by BMC Clinical Pharmacology. Reuters Health Information
