Survivorship standards guide multidisciplinary collaboration, addressing resource gaps and enhancing services across all survivorship stages. The definition of survivorship now includes the entire ...

A group of experts advising the nation's premier cancer research institution has recommended changing the very definition of cancer and eliminating the word entirely from some common diagnoses as part ...

12 Million Americans are Cancer Survivors. Aug. 6, 2013— -- intro: "Cancer" is one of the most terrifying words in the English language. Fortunately, as screening, diagnosis and treatment improve ...

Defining cure in stage II and III colon cancer has been challenging, and has never been systematically studied. In an analysis of 15 randomized trials, colon cancer relapse risk fell to 0.5% by year 6 ...

Valarie Traynham shares what survivorship means to her, and how the definition has evolved after her diagnosis, during National Cancer Survivors Month. Survivorship can mean something different to ...

CHICAGO (February 26, 2020): The best approach for surgeons to identify malnourished cancer patients before they have a cancer operation may be specifically related to the type of cancer the patient ...

There is no universally accepted definition for recurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) across treatment categories such as total thyroidectomy with or without radioactive iodine ablation ...

Single-fraction high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy boost and hypofractionated radiation for intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer: A report of toxicity from a single center experience.

Analysis of 35,213 patients with stage II-III colon cancer revealed that recurrence risk drops below 0.5% at 6 years post-surgery, supporting a practical definition of cure. Women showed a ...

Randomized prospective clinical trials are conducted with a variety of specific aims. A common aim is to demonstrate that one treatment approach has a statistically superior advantage over another in ...