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Could Males with High-risk Prostate Cancer Benefit from Shortened Radiation Therapy?

According to research, males with high-risk prostate cancer could be treated with 5 rather than 8 weeks of radiotherapy.

Does Age Influence Vaccination Uptake in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?

Prophylactic influenza and pneumococcal vaccine uptake rates are low in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Paediatric Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis: Is Subcutaneous Immunotherapy Safe and Effective?

Treating paediatric asthma and allergic rhinitis with subcutaneous combined immunotherapy is safe and improves symptoms…

Cell and gene therapy: a victim of its own success

Landmark science has led to an inundation of new transformative therapies, but is the cell and gene market at the point of saturation?

Recent Advances in the First-Line Management of Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: Focus on the Role of Lenvatinib Plus Pembrolizumab Combination Treatment

As part of the 37th Annual European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress, this symposium presented key data from the CLEAR study: a Phase III randomised controlled trial evaluating lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab versus sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in the first-line (1L) setting.

Recent Advances in the First-Line Management of Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: Focus on the Role of Lenvatinib Plus Pembrolizumab Combination Treatment

The 37th Annual European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress 2022 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where data from the CLEAR study, a Phase III randomised controlled trial evaluating lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab combination therapy against sunitinib as first-line treatment in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, were presented.

Expert Insights into Paediatric Tuberculosis

The first podcast in this three-part series introduces the topic of paediatric tuberculosis (TB) and the concept of latent TB infection (L TBI). Statistics on the risk of progression from LTBI to active TB, as well as the risk of severe TB disease, dissemination, and death in children versus adults are shared.

Driving confidence and participation in genetic research

In this episode, Helena and Isabel are joined by Patrick Short, CEO, Sano Genetics, to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing genetic medicine.

Striving for more: personalizing care in patients with psoriatic disease

Striving for more: personalizing care in palients with psoriatic disease. Educational objectives: Understand what patients need and expect from their treatment journey from its outset. Drive the importance of collecting patient reported outcomes on registries and analysing data by gender/age. Consider shared decision-making as essential throughout a patient’s joumey, understanding how it can further treatment personalisation and patient outcomes

Tumour Organoids from Multifocal Metastatic Colorectal Cancers for Personalised Oncology

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) have limited systemic treatment options compared to other major cancer types.1 Tumour heterogeneity is a major cause of treatment failure.