Patients with cancer who continue to smoke despite their diagnosis experience greater pain severity than those who quit or who have never smoked. Medscape Medical News
Kyphoplasty is being used to treat painful osteolytic or fractured vertebrae, but will it become a key treatment option for patients with vertebral osteolyses from multiple myeloma? Clinical Lymphoma & Myeloma
The data are preliminary, but red wine appears to act as a nutritional aromatase inhibitor and does not appear to increase the risk for breast cancer. Medscape Medical News
As more and more children and adolescents become cancer survivors, life-long surveillance will fall to the primary care physician. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Older men with prostate cancer who are on long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) often show physical performance deficits that significantly increase their risk for falls and injury, researchers report. Reuters Health Information
