Oncology

From cooking to kegels: daily lessons for prostate cancer patients drop care costs
The program created in 2019 by Gabriela Ilie and radiation oncologist Dr. Rob Rutledge includes pelvic exercises to improve bladder control, aerobic and strength exercise routines, and instruction on how to maintain intimacy despite lost sexual capacity.
Your darker skinned patients still need to wear sunscreen
Yes, white people are overall more likely to get skin cancer compared to Black and Hispanic people. But Black and Hispanic people are less likely to survive the most dangerous kind of skin cancer—melanoma.

NEW DRUG: Lazcluze for nonsmall cell lung cancer

Get the info you need on this new drug, part of our drug news roundup for May.
Canadian Cardiovascular Society issues update on approaches to smoking cessation

Smoking cessation is a fundamental responsibility of every healthcare provider and must be a priority in all healthcare settings.
How regular exercise can impact colon cancer survival

Canadian researchers have found that patients who participated in a supervised exercise program after completing their chemotherapy were 28% less likely to have their colon cancer return than patients in the control group.
NEW DRUG: Itovebi for breast cancer

Get the info you need on this new drug, part of our drug news roundup for May.
Could blockbuster weight-loss medications help prevent cancer?

Researchers looked at rates of obesity-related cancers in patients who took diabetes medications associated with weight loss.
Chemotherapy vs. endocrine therapy: Why do some women see worse health decline in the years after breast cancer?

After recovering from breast cancer, women experience greater physical health decline—but how much does that have to do with how their cancer was treated?
B.C. opioid rules were to reduce overdoses. But they cut cancer patients’ pain meds

Rule changes designed to reduce opioid overdose deaths in British Columbia in 2016 inadvertently harmed cancer and palliative-care patients by reducing their access to pain killers, a new study has found.
Radiology from CT scans could contribute to more than 100K new cancer cases in U.S. each year

Modelling study has lessons for other countries as it highlights the population-level impacts of exposure to ionizing radiation from the widely used imaging test.

From cooking to kegels: daily lessons for prostate cancer patients drop care costs

Your darker skinned patients still need to wear sunscreen

NEW DRUG: Lazcluze for nonsmall cell lung cancer

Canadian Cardiovascular Society issues update on approaches to smoking cessation

How regular exercise can impact colon cancer survival

NEW DRUG: Itovebi for breast cancer

Could blockbuster weight-loss medications help prevent cancer?

Chemotherapy vs. endocrine therapy: Why do some women see worse health decline in the years after breast cancer?

B.C. opioid rules were to reduce overdoses. But they cut cancer patients’ pain meds

Radiology from CT scans could contribute to more than 100K new cancer cases in U.S. each year