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Marginal survival gains among patients with small-cell lung cancer who receive twice- versus once-daily thoracic radiotherapy plus prophylactic cranial irradiation occur at the cost of an increased risk for brain metastases, research shows.

US research shows that the use of opioids, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or glucocorticoids may increase the risk for all types of osteoporotic fracture in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

People with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis are at particularly high risk for progression to cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma if they have diabetes, say researchers.

Extended follow-up of patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma in the CheckMate 032 trial shows sustained antitumor activity of nivolumab alone and in combination with ipilimumab.

People with type 1 diabetes have high-priority concerns that go beyond glucose control, including complex and mentally taxing treatment and weight gain, report researchers.

Researchers have used exome-wide sequencing to identify several rare variants within four genes that are significantly associated with type 2 diabetes.