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Expensive medications are being given far more often to elderly patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Elderly With Advanced CRC Often Get Costly, Unnecessary Tx

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Medications come with many side effects, may add only one month to survival, researchers say
The 21-gene recurrence score (Oncotype DX) seems to accurately identify women with early-stage breast cancer who don't need chemotherapy

Gene Test IDs Breast CA Patients Who May Not Need Chemo

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Analysis can help women who won't benefit from additional treatment to avoid side effects
Xalkori (crizotinib) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with tumors that have a rare ROS1 gene mutation.

FDA Approves Xalkori for Rare Genetic Form of Lung Cancer

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Drug approval expanded to include patients with ROS1-positive NSCLC
Women with diabetes who take insulin appear to have a higher incidence of dense breasts

Insulin Treatment May Up Breast Density in Diabetes Patients

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Women on insulin might need extra breast cancer screening
Warfarin treatment for patients with atrial fibrillation may raise the risk of traumatic intracranial bleeding by more than previously reported

Warfarin’s Intracranial Bleed Risk Higher Than Previously Reported

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Several factors place patients at increased risk of traumatic intracranial bleeding
A combination drug therapy widely used to treat malaria in adults -- dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine -- also protects pregnant women and their fetuses from the disease

Combo Tx Protects Pregnant Women, Fetuses From Malaria

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Findings suggest older medication is losing effectiveness, researchers say
The drug combination of lapatinib (Tykerb) and trastuzumab (Herceptin) induces tumor regression or disappearance in 25 percent of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive cancers in 11 days

Lapatinib + Trastuzumab May Rapidly Shrink Breast Tumors

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Researchers say combo therapy works well for about one in four women with HER2+ breast cancer
For patients undergoing cataract surgery

Bevacizumab, Triamcinolone Up Outcome After Cataract Surgery

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Both linked to improvements in visual acuity; only triamcinolone tied to sustained improvement in CMT
Vitamin D supplements don't appear to relieve pain or slow the progression of knee osteoarthritis in patients with low levels of the vitamin

Vitamin D Not Beneficial for Osteoarthritis of the Knee

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Supplements don't slow disease progression or ease pain, even in patients with low levels of the vitamin

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, March 4-7

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The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology The annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & and Immunology was held...