Here are 7 recent trials and studies testing treatments and detection in cancer care:
- Researchers at Mays Cancer Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio conducted a clinical trial combining two drugs in patients with recurrent, high-grade glioblastoma and found an improvement in six-month progression-free survival among its 25 patients.
- A small, phase 1 study found promising results for a pancreatic cancer vaccine.
- Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center researchers found telehealth consistently outperformed in-person visits for access to care and provider response.
- Researchers found early detection for some cancers can come up to three years before a traditional diagnosis with the aid of artificial intelligence.
- High-risk breast cancer patients who adhere to a healthy lifestyle as outlined by national guidelines have a 37 percent reduced risk of disease recurrence and a 58 percent lower death risk, according to new findings led by researchers at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- Researchers from the University of Florida in Gainesville found patients who have asthma are 1.36 times more likely to develop cancer in their lifetime than others.
- St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine and Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers found that a slow rate of breast density decline is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer.