Medical Center

Recent media reports of potential misdiagnosis and overtreatment of early-stage breast cancer may be frightening women away from recommended screening for breast cancer, according to a joint news release from Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the College of American Pathologists. Rather than forgo screening because of fears of being misdiagnosed and receiving unnecessary [...]

Surgery Alone May Be Reasonable for Stage I Small-Cell Lung Cancer An analysis of outcomes from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database indicates that surgery without radiotherapy for stage I small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) “appears to offer reasonable survival outcomes.”   The findings led researchers to conclude that lobectomy by itself is [...]