Patients with early bladder cancer who have gone 5 years without relapse may be considered “cured,” researchers suggested. In considering outcomes for evaluating how “cure” is defined in early bladder ...

BOSTON — A year ago, a man living with HIV walked into the exam room of Maile Young Karris, MD, from the UC San Diego Medical Center. He had seen on the news that there was a cure for HIV, and asked ...

An objective definition of cure for children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has been elusive. If eradication of the leukemic clone is the sole criterion, patients who maintain ...

Defining cure in stage II and III colon cancer has been challenging, and has never been systematically studied. In an analysis of 15 randomized trials, colon cancer relapse risk fell to 0.5% by year 6 ...

Sir - In her article on prostate cancer (Health, Oct 22), Judith Woods should have defined what she means by "cure", "treatable" and "treatment". All prostate cancer is treatable, but that does not ...

ORLANDO, Florida — A first-of-its-kind study has shown that for patients with follicular lymphoma (FL), measurements of minimal residual disease (MRD) can be used to predict risk for relapse.

By broadening definition of success to include sustained low-level HBsAg with suppressed HBV DNA, we can recognize clinically ...