Bryant Furlow

Baseline hypertension and BMI can affect worsening hypertension among patients administered vascular endothelial growth factor signaling pathway inhibitors, according to research presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Depression and anxiety, not just inflammation, predict pain intensity and interference with daily life among women recovering from gynecologic cancer surgery.

A ginger extract, 6-gingerol, improves chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), according to findings from a phase 2 randomized trial presented at the 2014 Annual ASCO Meeting.

Patients who express pretreatment concern about treatment symptoms such as nausea and memory problems tend to suffer higher symptom burdens during and after anticancer treatment, suggests research.

Treatment-related dysphagia symptoms are likely caused by internal lymphedema among patients with head and neck cancer, according to research presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting.

The site of metastatic tumors powerfully predicts overall survival (OS) among men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), confirms a meta-analysis presented at the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.

Tumor biology-based therapy offers excellent outcomes among children with intermediate risk neuroblastoma, according to results from a prospective phase 3 reduction of therapy study.

Obese patients with gynecologic cancer are rarely counseled on weight loss, even though they expect to be, and report that such discussions would not offend them, according to research.

Combination ridaforolimus + MK-2206 AKT inhibitor therapy yielded modest early clinical efficacy results for patients with low-RAS advanced breast cancer and PTEN-deficient prostate cancer.

Sexual dysfunction is a common and distressing side effect of prostate cancer treatment. Two new reports from randomized clinical trials offer mixed results for adjuvant pharmacotherapy intended to prevent erectile dysfunction in men undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer.