Oncology

1. A woman developed anti-AMPA receptor encephalitis in the setting of metastatic melanoma.2. Following a short delay, she responded well to vemurafenib and cobimetinib....

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (cSCC-HN) generally has a favorable prognosis, however, there is a subset of patients who experience...

The use of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has been associated with increases in specificity and breast cancer detection compared with digital mammography (DM) alone....

1. Pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy in advanced ovarian cancer patients provided no overall or progression-free survival benefits compared to patients not undergoing lymphadenectomy.2. Serious...

Image-guided thermal ablation is used as a cancer treatment modality; however, local tumor progression continues to be a problem. Thermal accelerant use has been...

Implantable subcutaneous chest ports are used in maintaining long-term central venous access. The use of these ports is common in a number of clinical...

1. Patients with residual human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer after chemotherapy and HER2 targeted therapy had higher disease-free survival if...

Breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy followed by radiotherapy is commonly used in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer. There is growing interest in delivering postmastectomy...

1. IL-2 is a central cytokine that enhances the immune response, with considerable potential for the treatment of cancer.2. A mimic of IL-2 binds...

The standard of care for T2-T4aN0M0 muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) and high-risk non-MIBC in fit patients is radical cystectomy (RC). In patients unfit for...