Comment on this storyComment Life can be hard and sleep elusive. Many Americans deal with occasional or chronic insomnia by taking sleeping pills. In 2020, 8 percent of Americans said they take sleep medication every day or most days to help them fall asleep or stay asleep. As a sleep psychologist, I see a large number of such patients. Most start using over-the-counter or prescription pills to counteract sleep disturbances caused by short-term disturbances such as travel, unusual stress and hospitalization, or long-term conditions such as chronic insomnia (or another…
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Radiation can be safely omitted in selected patients with locally advanced rectal cancer
By the staff of ASCO Post Posted: 6/4/2023 11:46:00 AM Last update: 6/4/2023 10:53:02 Locally advanced rectal cancer patients with chemotherapy-responsive tumors can safely forego radiation therapy before surgery, based on results from the PROSPECT trial. These data were presented by Deborah Schrag, MD, FASCO, MPHat the ASCO Annual Meeting 2023 (Abstract LBA2) and contextually published in The New England Journal of Medicine(effectiveness data) and theJournal of Clinical Oncology (data on patient-reported outcomes). Omitting radiotherapy can reduce short- and long-term side effects that affect quality of life, providing similar results…
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