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In April 2020, colonoscopy screenings declined from 15.1 per 10,000 beneficiaries to 0.9, a 95% difference.

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The researchers analyzed millions of pharmacy transactions by more than 600,000 people in the United States from 2017 to 2019 in order to get a better sense of how vouchers and other point-of-sale co-payment offsets are used.

Isatuximab in combination with carfilzomib and dexamethasone reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 45% versus standard of care alone.

March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) partnered to release a new guide for pharmacies on transgender and gender-diverse inclusion.

Early recognition and treatment, along with a coordinated approach and multidisciplinary team, are important to limit disease progression.

To begin understanding systemic racism and its impact on social determinants of health, researchers said pharmacists must first look inward and examine their own biases and socializations.

Although pediatric patients represent a small portion of total acute myeloid leukemia cases, clinicians said there is a critical need for more effective therapies in this population.

Resilience helps pharmacy personnel cope with mounting pressures and demands that come from stressed patients, tense supervisors, nervous patients, and precarious supply chain balances.

In England, incidence rates of the skin cancer cutaneous malignant melanoma were found to have increased by more than 550% among males and 250% among females since the early 1980s.

In a clinical trial of idecabtagene vicleucel in multiple myeloma, the overall response rate for the efficacy evaluable population was 72%, and 28% of participants achieved a stringent complete response.

In addition to cardiotoxicity from cancer-related treatments, the researchers noted that obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease share some common risk factors.

A new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that for colorectal cancer survivors, maintaining a stable body weight may hide a loss of muscle and the development of fatty deposits in their muscles, which resulted in a 40% higher risk of premature death.

If IVIG is commenced within 2 weeks from the onset of Guillain-Barre syndrome it can hasten recovery as much as plasma exchange, study indicates.

Results from a phase 3 trial investigating the programmed cell death protein 1 inhibitor cemiplimab monotherapy compared to chemotherapy showed an overall survival benefit among patients previously treated with chemotherapy whose cervical cancer is recurrent or metastatic.

Electricity may slow the speed at which breast cancer cells spread through the body, and in some cases may stop them entirely, according to a new study published in Bioelectricity.

Investigators found a statistically significant improvement in both overall survival and progression-free survival for patients who received pembrolizumab with chemotherapy.

Low doses of propylparaben–a chemical preservative found in food, drugs, and cosmetics–can alter pregnancy-related changes in the breast in ways that may lessen the protection against breast cancer normally conveyed by pregnancy hormones.

The IGCS Mentorship and Training Program seeks to provide training and education to regions without formal training programs in gynecologic oncology.

Clinicians have been searching for accurate, reliable, non-invasive diagnostic tools to differentiate early stage, less dangerous, and more treatable stages of the disease from the aggressive, high-grade and likely-to-spread forms.

Nine in 10 patients with multiple sclerosis who received the medication did not have worsening of 3-month disability, and ponesimod showed a numerical benefit in delaying disability progression.

Language barriers can present a major obstacle to patient involvement in cancer care, although clinicians recommended several potential strategies to help patients who speak different languages.

Study finds cancer survivors were 42% more likely to report walking at the slowest pace and had a 24% greater risk of mobility disability compared to individuals who never had cancer.

When applied as a filler for soft tissue defects and voids, the regenerative tissue filler shows promise for accelerating and improving tissue restoration outcomes.

The VENTANA ALK CDx assay is a companion diagnostic to identify patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer who are eligible to receive treatment with lorlatinib.

Researchers find no clear therapeutic benefit of intravenous immunoglobulin for the prevention of postnatal relapses of multiple sclerosis.

Teclistamab showed promising clinical activity and a tolerable safety profile in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Researchers at Columbia and MIT have created a new technique that can uncover nearly all of the behaviors that cancer cells use to evade immunotherapies, which could lead to the development of more effective treatments.

In a recent interview with Pharmacy Times, Lee Greenberger, PhD, chief scientific officer of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, said the development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies is a major step for the treatment of some cancers.

Women who attended the 2 more recent screenings prior to their breast cancer diagnosis had a 50% lower incidence of their cancer being fatal within 10 years.