Diabetic Macular Edema

One of the common assumptions in oncology treatment is that earlier detection and treatment is better and leads to improved survival and outcomes for patients, but does this hold true in reality?

A recent meta-analysis suggests that bevacizumab (Avastin) is significantly associated with increased risk for VTE.

Personalized medicine involves using information about a patient�s genotype or gene expression profile to tailor medical treatment to the individual. Oncology is not quite there yet, but researchers have started to lay the groundwork.

Medicare has widened the scope of its coverage of drugs used as off-label treatments in cancer patients.

Conventional cancer chemotherapy has enjoyed mixed success because it fails to differentiate patients by the unique molecular characteristics of their disease.

Of the one million deaths caused by malaria each year, most occur "as a result of cerebral malaria, where red blood cells infected by malaria parasites build up into the brain, leading to coma and convulsions and, if not treated swiftly, death."

Estimating survival for patients with early breast cancer for up to 15 years is possible, report researchers from Duke.