What to Know About Merkel Cell Carcinoma, the Rare Cancer that Killed Jimmy Buffett

What to Know About Merkel Cell Carcinoma, the Rare Cancer that Killed Jimmy Buffett

"Margaritaville" singer Jimmy Buffett died of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer, according to a tribute posted on his official websiteopens in a new tab or window. The 76-year-old music icon... read more

Safety and efficacy of dexmedetomidine vs ketamine vs midazolam combined with propofol in gastrointestinal endoscopy for cancer patients

Safety and efficacy of dexmedetomidine vs ketamine vs midazolam combined with propofol in gastrointestinal endoscopy for cancer patients

In cancer patients who underwent GI endoscopy, dexmedetomidine-propofol and ketamine-propofol had better sedation efficacy [lower achievement time of RSS 3–4, total propofol dose, and eye-opening time] compared to midazolam-propofol... read more

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy

The field of immuno-oncology continues to rapidly evolve as new insights to fight and treat cancer emerge. The fourth edition of Immunotherapy provides the most current overview of immuno-oncology in different cancer types... read more

Cancer Treatments Not Associated with Inferior COVID-19 Outcomes

Cancer Treatments Not Associated with Inferior COVID-19 Outcomes

The findings of this study of patients with active cancer suggest that recent systemic anticancer treatments (SACTs) is not associated with inferior outcomes from COVID-19 infection. This has relevance for the care of... read more

Mechanical Ventilation Promotes Lung Tumor Spread by Modulation of Cholesterol Cell Content

Mechanical Ventilation Promotes Lung Tumor Spread by Modulation of Cholesterol Cell Content

Mechanical stretch of cancer cells can alter their invasiveness. During mechanical ventilation, lungs may be exposed to an increased amount of stretch, but the consequences on lung tumors have not been explored. To characterize... read more

Cancer Clues In A Drop Of Blood

Cancer Clues In A Drop Of Blood

New diagnostic blood test paves the way for early stage lung cancer screening. A diagnostic blood test may provide early detection of lung cancer in asymptomatic patients, according to a new study. Lung cancer, the leading... read more

Biomarkers of Kidney Disease

Biomarkers of Kidney Disease

Biomarkers of Kidney Disease, Second Edition, focuses on the basic and clinical research of biomarkers in common kidney diseases, detailing the characteristics of an ideal biomarker. The latest techniques for biomarker detection,... read more

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

A powerful look at a stage IV lung cancer diagnosis through the eyes of a neurosurgeon. When Paul Kalanithi is given his diagnosis he is forced to see this disease, and the process of being sick, as a patient rather than... read more

Assessment of Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program Advocacy and Inclusion of People With HIV in Anti–PD1/PDL1 Trials

Assessment of Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program Advocacy and Inclusion of People With HIV in Anti–PD1/PDL1 Trials

This study identified encouraging trends in the inclusion of PLWH in anti–PD1/PDL1 cancer trials that occurred in the period following the initiation of CTEP advocacy. Work is needed to examine what impact this will have... read more

Core Curriculum for Pain Management Nursing

Core Curriculum for Pain Management Nursing

Learn how to successfully work with patients in pain with The Core Curriculum for Pain Management Nursing, 3rd Edition. Written by the American Society for Pain Management Nursing (the primary nursing organization in pain... read more

How Severe COVID-19 Infection is Changing ARDS Management

How Severe COVID-19 Infection is Changing ARDS Management

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided many intensivists (and some non-intensivists) several years' worth of severe ARDS management experience over the course of just a few months. While the challenges have, in places, been extreme,... read more

The Fight Against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage

The Fight Against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage

The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention. By one estimate 70,000 Americans will die in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a shocking number, of course, but it is far fewer... read more

New NICE Guidelines on VTE Management

New NICE Guidelines on VTE Management

In the midst of everything that is going on with COVID-19 it is easy to see how important non coronavirus stuff can get overlooked. But we still need to keep our eyes open. After a 3 year process involving many meetings,... read more

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost... read more