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IMAGE: Dr. Catherine Van Poznak is the co-chair of a new SWOG Cancer Research Network trial that details, for the first time, the incidence of a common bone disease in cancer. view more
Credit: University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
PORTLAND, OR - A landmark study by researchers from the SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials group funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has found that 2.8 percent of patients on average develop osteonecrosis of the jaw, or ONJ, within three years of starting a common treatment for cancer that has spread to the bone.
December 10, 2020 Physicians often missed key side effects of radiation therapy in patients with breast cancer who participated in a new study being presented at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Common side effects missed by physicians included pain, itchy skin, swelling, and fatigue. Dr. Reshma Jagsi, PhD. Image courtesy of University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.
The findings come from researching the experiences of nearly 10,000 patients who visited dozens of practices in Michigan. The patients had all received radiation therapy following lumpectomy and noted their side effects on standard symptom reporting tools, according to presenter Dr. Reshma Jagsi, PhD, deputy chair of radiation oncology at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor.
Physicians did not recognize side effects from radiation therapy in more than half of breast cancer patients who reported a significant symptom, a new study finds.