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Adjuvant treatment with sunitinib may be associated with an increased mortality risk for older female patients with renal cell carcinoma, suggests a post-hoc analysis of the ASSURE trial that compared sunitinib and sorafenib with placebo.

Individuals with stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer harboring anaplastic lymphoma kinase translocations can hope to achieve overall survival of nearly 7 years, suggests a US cohort analysis.

Although a watchful waiting approach to rectal cancer surgery is associated with a high rate of rectal preservation among patients who achieve a clinical complete response after neoadjuvant therapy, it may adversely affect survival and also distant control in certain patients, suggests data from a case series.

Tocilizumab treatment results in a “rapid and maintained” clinical improvement among patients with giant cell arteritis in routine clinical practice, researchers report.

Patients with asthma who are treated with the once-daily inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting beta agonist regimen fluticasone furoate/vilanterol have better treatment adherence than those taking the twice-daily budesonide/formoterol combination, researchers report.

The findings from two studies published in JAMA show the benefits of initial disease-modifying therapy and nonmyeloablative haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in delaying conversion to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.