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SCOTUS to Mull Whether Insurers Must Offer Certain Preventive Services for Free
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115201.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could affect what kind of preventive care is covered at no charge under Americans' health insurance plans. The case, known as Kennedy v. Braidwood, involves Christian...


Encouraging Results After Discontinuation of Cancer Immunotherapy Due to Immune AEs
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115200.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Patients who discontinued cancer immunotherapy because of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) often had durable benefits despite not receiving the planned course of treatment, a retrospective study of patients with lung cancer...


Sexual Toxicity of Cancer Drugs; Guilt and Non-Beneficial Care; Effects of Cannabis
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115196.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Cancer drugs' sexual toxicity warrants a "call to action" among oncologists to address the problem. (Lancet Oncology) U.S. medical centers have appealed to the FDA for compassionate use approval of the adenosine receptor inhibitor...


Hydroxyurea Remains Effective Long-Term in Children With Sickle Cell Disease
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115191.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Hydroxyurea, a myelosuppressive agent that has been a standard treatment in sickle cell disease (SCD) for decades, remains effective over the long term in children with the disease, according to a single-center, real-world study...


Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.'s NIH Slashed Funding Across States That Backed Trump
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115182.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The NIH's sweeping cuts of grants that fund scientific research are inflicting pain almost universally across the U.S., including in most states that backed President Trump in the 2024 election. A KFF Health News analysis underscores...


Honing Indications for Endocrine Therapy in ER-Low Early Breast Cancer
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115154.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Omission of endocrine therapy in estrogen receptor (ER)-low early breast cancer had a significant association with worse survival, particularly in patients with residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), a large retrospective...


Detectable ctDNA Before Adjuvant Therapy for Melanoma May Predict Recurrence
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115153.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Droplet digital PCR measurements of circulating tumor (ct)DNA to assess minimal residual disease before the initiation of adjuvant therapy and during follow-up for patients with resected stage III melanoma may accurately identify...


ACIP Considers Single-Dose HPV Vaccination
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115151.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- At its meeting on Tuesday, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) considered whether the U.S. should move to single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination instead of the currently recommended schedule...


I Survived Leukemia Because of a Clinical Trial. Will Future Patients Be So Lucky?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115128.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- I don't usually talk about my cancer diagnosis. But as a physician-scientist who survived leukemia at 18 years old and now cares for people facing their own cancer diagnoses, I feel compelled to share my story -- because it...


The Choice Between Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy in Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115124.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In this fourth and final installment of MedPage Today's virtual roundtable series on pediatric low-grade glioma, moderator Jason Fangusaro, MD, of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, is joined once again by Sabine...


CT Scans in a Single Year Could Result in 100,000 Future Cancers in the U.S.
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115112.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- At current utilization and radiation dose levels, CT exams in 2023 were projected to lead to over 100,000 future cancers over the lifetime of exposed patients, according to an updated risk model. Among an estimated 62 million...


Estimated GFR Equation Matters When Dosing Chemotherapy in Cancer Patients
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115097.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- Some equations used to calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) may alter chemotherapy dosing in cancer patients, a prospective study indicated. Nearly 300 adults beginning treatment for cancer had their...


Ablative RT Shows Promise in Technically Resectable Pancreatic Cancer
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115075.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The use of ablative radiation therapy (A-RT) led to promising overall survival and effective local tumor control in patients with technically resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) who were high-risk candidates for...


Cancer Screening Decline; Menstruation and Sickle Cell Pain; Weedkiller Cancer Suit
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115061.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Prevent Cancer Foundation's 2025 Early Detection Survey showed that only about half of U.S. adults 21 years and older said they had a routine medical appointment or routine cancer screening in the last year -- a 10 percentage...


Polygenic Risk Tool Can Detect Clinically Significant Prostate Cancers
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115042.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- For men at the highest risk of prostate cancer as determined by a polygenic risk score, the percentage found to have clinically significant disease was higher than the percentage that would have been identified with the use of...


Sniffing Out Lung Cancer: Breath Analyzer Moves Closer to Clinical Use
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115031.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Electronic "nose" analysis of exhaled breath achieved 80-90% accuracy for detecting lung cancer in patients with suspicious clinical or radiologic findings, a large prospective study showed. The original eNose (SpiroNose) model...


Disparities Persist in Guideline-Concordant Care for Pancreatic Cancer
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115030.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- While the vast majority of patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) receive at least one aspect of guideline-concordant care -- with that proportion steadily increasing -- disparities still persist...


Groups Demand RFK Jr. 'Immediately' Restore CDC's Axed Blood Division
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115024.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The American Society of Hematology (ASH) and nearly 100 other organizations blasted the dismantling of CDC's Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics (DBDPHG) and called for its full restoration. Nearly all staffers...


USPSTF Still Recommends Counseling to Support Breastfeeding
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115023.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) still recommends primary care behavioral counseling for breastfeeding, mostly in line with its 2016 guidelines. In the updated recommendation statement published in JAMA, USPSTF...


Don't Forget Fertility: Medicaid Must Cover Iatrogenic Infertility
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115012.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Fertility preservation services optimize the potential for future reproduction, safeguarding this option for newly diagnosed cancer patients in an impossible bind: choosing between their health -- even their life -- and their...


Does a Measles Infection Protect Against Cancer and Heart Disease?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115008.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- As measles continues to spread through vulnerable communities in the U.S., HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested that there are long-term health benefits to contracting the virus, despite decades of data that suggest...