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In the first-line treatment of patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harbouring EGFR mutation, the combination of osimertinib plus pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy outperformed osimertinib alone in terms of extending progression-free survival (PFS), according to the interim results of the phase III FLAURA2 trial presented at WCLC 2023.

The first intervention program to target Malaysian B40 youth and their parents aims to educate them on the dangers of smoking and vaping.

Cancer patients who are being treated with chemotherapy are susceptible to chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), and they continue to experience these side effects despite being administered with antiemetics, a study has shown.

Supplementation with ginseng appears to provide protective benefits against early cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction caused by doxorubicin and may help prevent early decline in left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with breast cancer, suggests a study.

Patients with moderate-to-severe rosacea may benefit from treatment with 5-aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy (ALA-PDT), which has shown its efficacy and noninferiority to minocycline in a recent study.