Social Vulnerability Affects Cancer-Related Mortality Rates in the US
Researchers sought to determine the age-adjusted mortality rates related to cancer in US counties.
Researchers sought to determine the age-adjusted mortality rates related to cancer in US counties.
The US supply of cisplatin is nearly restored, and shortages of carboplatin and methotrexate have been alleviated, the government says.
Adding ipilimumab to treatment with nivolumab does not provide a clinically meaningful benefit in patients with certain cancers, a meta-analysis suggests.
Cancer patients were more likely to die from the BA.1 and BA.2 omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 than from wild-type SARS-CoV-2, data suggest.
The burden of administrative tasks required to pay for cancer care is associated with nonadherence to care, a new study suggests.
Oncology professionals share what #MedTwitter means to them and where they might go if Twitter (now X) becomes obsolete.
Cancer death rates have declined in the United States in recent years, but the declines are greater in urban than in rural areas, data suggest.
A cancer patient’s race, type of insurance, and setting in which they are treated are all associated with end-of-life treatment, a study suggests.
Deaths in patients with COVID-19 and cancer made up 81% of excess deaths among cancer patients during the first 2 years of the pandemic.
Cancer patients may be particularly susceptible to transportation-related disruptions in care.