Men with benign prostatic hyperplasia undergoing long-term treatment with 5α-reductase inhibitors are significantly more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those receiving the α-blocker tamsulosin, population-based study data show.
Positron emission tomography using 68gallium-labeled ligands of the prostate-specific membrane antigen is accurate, reproducible, and safe in localizing biochemically recurrent prostate cancer, according to the results of a prospective trial.
The overall survival benefit of immunotherapy in elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer is unclear according to two studies with contradictory results presented at the European Lung Cancer Congress 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Maintenance treatment with nivolumab, either given alone or alongside ipilimumab, does not prolong the overall survival of patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer, the CheckMate 451 investigators have found.
A third of cancer patients and survivors use complementary and alternative medicine, but they do not always disclose its use to their physicians, findings indicate.
Lorlatinib is more efficacious against non-small-cell lung cancer with versus without ALK resistance mutations in patients with disease progression after at least one second-generation ALK–tyrosine kinase inhibitor, suggests research.