Failure to Diagnose Cancer Failure to diagnose cancer is a legal term used to describe an incident where a medical professional fails to identify and treat cancer in a patient. Failure to diagnose typically indicates that the patient exhibited visible cancer signs and symptoms, and therefore a cancer diagnosis should have been made. For many…
Medical Errors in Cancer Medical errors have been defined as “the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim.” Harmful medical errors are adverse events caused by medical errors. Attention to medical error has increased in recent years in medicine and oncology,…
Altering Chemotherapy Improves Outcomes in Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer June 28, 2018 Results from two clinical trials are expected to improve the outlook for people diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer that can be treated with surgery. In the first trial, changing the type of chemotherapy given after surgery from a single drug to a multi-drug regimen…
Immunotherapy drug for skin disease could boost hormone treatment for prostate cancer June 27, 2018 A new form of immunotherapy reactivates the response to hormone treatment in advanced prostate cancer, a study in mice and human prostate cancer cells has found. Hormone therapy is a mainstay of prostate cancer treatment—but tumour cells can grow resistant, leading to a…
Novel PET Imaging Agent Targets Copper in Tumors, Allowing Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Recurrence March 5, 2018 RESTON, Va. – An Italian study featured in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine demonstrates that a novel nuclear medicine imaging agent targeting copper accumulation in tumors can detect prostate cancer recurrence early in patients with biochemical…
UNC Lineberger researchers identify genetic ‘seeds’ of metastatic breast cancer March 5, 2018 Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States, with most deaths caused by the cancer spreading beyond the breast. In a new study, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified…
Exercise is ‘the best medicine’ and should be prescribed to every cancer patient, expert guidelines say May 7, 2018 Exercise “is the best medicine” and should be prescribed to all cancer patients to slow the disease’s progression and improve chances of survival, according to the first guidance of its sort anywhere in the world. Withdrawing from exercise after a…
Researchers identify renegade cells that portend relapse in children with leukemia March 5, 2018 Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a technique that allowed them to determine at diagnosis whether children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia would relapse following treatment. The method, described in a paper published online March 5 in Nature…
Biochemists zero in on key molecules that enable cells to crawl March 5, 2018 Biochemists have made a discovery that sheds light on the molecular machinery that allows some cells, such as immune cells or even malignant cancer cells in humans, to wiggle their way through tissues like organs, skin or bones. The work, conducted…
