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Although maintaining a healthy diet is important for all cancer patients, managing the time and resources involved with testing cancer patients for malnutrition can be a challenge for clinics.

Although the patients had no intention of quitting their habit, nicotine lozenges and tobacco-free snuff helped smokeless tobacco users to significantly reduce their tobacco use, according to a recent study.

Widely known for its effect on lung cancer, tobacco smoke can also fuel non–small cell lung cancer by altering cell production and survival regulatory pathways, according to recent studies.

Novel therapies for patients with multiple myeloma (MM) continue to show improved outcomes for a population that as little as 8 years ago had few options.

Most of the illnesses that are encountered in medicine are incurable. Diabetes and heart disease are 2 of the common, chronic, and incurable health conditions that require diligent monitoring.

The past decade has given us several breakthrough treatment options for a complex and serious malignancy, multiple myeloma (MM).

Multiple myeloma (MM) accounts for 10% to 15% of all hematologic malignancies, and is the cause of 20% of the deaths that result from blood and bone cancers.

A recent study examined patients’ reactions when they learned for the first time that they carried either a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation and that these mutations put them at higher risk for breast and ovarian cancer.

Although often thought of as a common cancer among elderly men, prostate cancer also strikes patients between the ages of 35 and 50.

For some men, exercise may have a positive impact on prostate cancer risk.