Tag: Cancer: Misc.

Pentagon compared cancer cases in nearly 900,000 military members to the general U.S. population

Survivors with four to seven types of discrimination events had large, clinically meaningful increase in deficits

Higher rates of vaccination seen in older patients; lower rates seen for metastatic solid tumors, with comorbidities

Significant progression-free survival benefit seen over placebo; more patients receiving nirogacestat have objective response

Myotoxicity-related fatality rate 3.4 percent after institution of screening coupled with active ventilation, treatment

Cancer patients with higher symptom complexity have higher odds of having emergency department visit or hospital admission

AYA cancer survivors bear most of the costs themselves in terms of lost productivity, loss of well-being, loss of life

Aggressive end-of-life care used more often by nursing home residents than community-dwelling residents aged 66 years or older

75.1 percent of cancer deaths occur in low-, middle-income countries, which account for 49.5 percent of economic cost

When both obesity and metabolic disease present, risk for certain cancers was even higher