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A novel comprehensive study of prostate cancer tissue has uncovered a completely new gene network driving the disease in patients with castrate-resistant prostate cancer.

A younger woman’s risk of an aggressive form of breast cancer may be reduced by up to 60% if she waits at least 15 years following her first menstrual period to give birth to her first child.

Immediate or near-term risk of death from the patient’s condition should be taken into account when weighing the benefits of an imaging exam against a potential future risk of radiation-induced cancer from the imaging.

The tumors of patients with a family history of colorectal cancer often carry a molecular sign that the cancer could be life threatening and may necessitate aggressive treatment.

When treating early breast cancer, a lower total dose of radiotherapy, provided in fewer, larger treatments, is as safe and effective as the international standard dose, according to the 10-year follow-up results of a major trial.

Researchers use a new method to identify potential anticancer drug combinations.

New study results show that patients who consumed more than 4 cups of caffeinated coffee per day had half the risk of death of oral/pharyngeal cancers compared with those who only occasionally or never drank coffee.

Medication reconciliation is a complex and cooperative clinical task required of physicians, nurses and pharmacists in which the goal is to minimize discrepancies and inappropriate medication orders.

Women with higher circulating carotenoid levels are at a reduced risk of breast cancer according to recent study results.

For patients with HER2-postive early-stage breast cancer, 1 year of adjuvant trastuzumab should remain the standard of care.