Hematology and Oncology

Risk factors for metastases include age, male sex, and immunosuppression

Rule was first enacted in 2012 and credited with a range of public health benefits

There is also a second bill to fund universal health care, which has a different deadline and does not have to pass on Monday

Progression-free, overall survival prolonged with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab versus treating physician's choice of chemotherapy

Incidences of major adverse cardiovascular events, cancers higher with tofacitinib versus TNF inhibitor; criteria for noninferiority not met

Reporting rates 3.83 per million vaccine doses for Ad26.COV2.S versus 0.00855 per million for mRNA-based vaccines

E-cigarette use reported by more than 2 million middle and high school students in 2021; considerable disparities reported in smoking

Caffeinated coffee tied to even lower risk than decaffeinated, with no differences seen by brewing method

Largest increases in distant-stage proportion for rectal-only seen for 20- to 29-year-old non-Hispanic Blacks, Hispanics

Promoting low-dose CT screening among mostly nonsmoking women increased detection of early-stage, but not late-stage, lung cancers