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Poststroke statin treatment confers survival benefits for cancer patients
Poststroke statin treatment confers survival benefits for cancer patients
16 Sep 2022

Statin treatment following ischaemic stroke appears to extend its benefits to improved survival in patients who also have had cancer, a study has found.

Poststroke statin treatment confers survival benefits for cancer patients
16 Sep 2022
Tuberculosis survivors at risk of stroke
Tuberculosis survivors at risk of stroke
11 Sep 2022

Patients who have been treated for tuberculosis appear to have an elevated risk of ischaemic stroke compared with their counterparts who have never had the infection, according to a study.

Tuberculosis survivors at risk of stroke
11 Sep 2022
Thrombocytopaenia, platelet dysfunction common in Parkinson’s disease
Thrombocytopaenia, platelet dysfunction common in Parkinson’s disease
10 Sep 2022
CROWN: 1L lorlatinib improves PFS, reduces CNS progression in ALK-positive NSCLC ± brain metastases
CROWN: 1L lorlatinib improves PFS, reduces CNS progression in ALK-positive NSCLC ± brain metastases
09 Sep 2022 bySarah Cheung

First-line treatment of ALK-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with lorlatinib improves progression-free survival (PFS) and reduces central nervous system (CNS) progression vs crizotinib, regardless of presence or absence of baseline brain metastases (BM), a post hoc analysis of the phase III CROWN trial has shown.

CROWN: 1L lorlatinib improves PFS, reduces CNS progression in ALK-positive NSCLC ± brain metastases
09 Sep 2022