Oncology

Accidental duplicate ingestions by patients and healthcare professional errors are the most common unintentional errors.

Risks from treatments differ between racial backgrounds, according to findings presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Eight years ago, a team of researchers launched a project to carefully repeat early but influential lab experiments in cancer research.

Two trials—collectively known as the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS)—found that mammograms for women in their 40s did not reduce death rates from breast cancer.

For the retrospective study, researchers analyzed patients who took any of 40 different common pharmaceutical drugs while receiving immunotherapy.

Calorie restriction altered immune cell activity to fight cancer cells. A study from Cancer Discovery.

Screening should continue into later years; older breast cancer patients face worse outcomes according to study of patients in South-Central Ontario.

While studies show associations between low vitamin D status and increased CRC risk, African Americans have the highest incidence and mortality rates of any other racial or ethnic group.