Tachycardia May Indicate Higher Mortality Risk in Cancer Patients
Tachycardia significantly predicts mortality in lung cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma
Cancer
Many New Cancer Patients Unaware of Their Hepatitis Status
Large proportion of participants with newly diagnosed cancer learned of infection through study.
Suicide Risk Up More Than 4-fold for Cancer Patients
Standardized mortality ratio highest for cancers of lung, head and neck, testes, bladder, Hodgkin lymphoma.
Comorbidities Adversely Linked to Cancer Trial Participation
Reduction in trial discussions, trial offers, trial participation seen with one or more comorbidities.
Costs Higher for Those With Comorbid Noncommunicable Diseases
Health expenditure greater for person with 2 diseases simultaneously than for the diseases separately.
Cancer Death Rate in US Decreased Continuously From 1991 to 2016
Socioeconomic inequalities are widening, but racial gap in cancer mortality narrowing slowly.
Exercise Linked to Reduced Mortality for Patients With Cancer
Mortality rate lower for habitually active patients and for those who started exercising after diagnosis
Many Americans Unaware of Promise of Personalized Medicine
41% are not at all familiar with personalized medicine; only 5% say they are very familiar.
ASH: Rivaroxaban Prevents Blood Clots in At-Risk Cancer Patients
Risk for patients in rivaroxaban group reduced during the on-treatment period
FDA Approves Vitrakvi for Cancers With Certain Genetic Trait
Drug targets solid tumors with NTRK gene fusion without a known acquired resistance mutation
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