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May 29th, 2021 - Anal cancer is a rare malignancy with an estimated 8,580 new cases each year in the USA where hematochezia, a common condition, is often the initial presenting sign. We describe a 51-year-old woman who presented with painful hematochezia, with a d...

May 27th, 2021 - Anal infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes 16 and 18 and anal cancer are overrepresented in men who have sex with men (MSM). This study investigated HPV prevalence in young MSM before and after the implementation of a schoo...

May 25th, 2021 - HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) are a vulnerable group for anal cancer (AC), a cancer with a well-described precursor lesion, which can be early detected in screening programs using anal liquid-based cytology (aLBC). We aim to compare...

May 25th, 2021 - Anal cancer is a rare disease that disproportionately affects people living with HIV and men who have sex with men (MSM). Although screening of MSM living with HIV occurs in the absence of consistent national guidelines, less research exists on sc...

May 24th, 2021 - Anal squamous cell carcinomas (ASCC) are strongly associated with human papillomaviruses. Standard of care is chemoradiotherapy at uniform doses with no treatment stratification. Immunohistochemical staining for p16INK4A (p16), a surrogate for hum...

Jan 13th, 2021 - Incidence and Mortality Estimated new cases and deaths from anal, anal canal, and anorectal cancer in the United States in 2021:[1]

Jan 16th, 2019 - Background: Chemotherapy with or without pelvic radiotherapy (RT) is included in the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for metastatic anal cancer (MAC), despite limited clinical evidence for RT in this setting. In add...

Aug 13th, 2018 - People living with HIV (PLWH) are diagnosed with cancer at an increased rate over the general population and generally have a higher mortality due to delayed diagnoses, advanced cancer stage, comorbidities, immunosuppression, and cancer treatment ...

Jul 14th, 2018 - The NCCN Guidelines for Anal Carcinoma provide recommendations for the management of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal or perianal region. Primary treatment of anal cancer usually includes chemoradiation, although certain les...

Jun 30th, 2018 - Squamous cell cancers of the anal canal and perianal region remain one of the least common malignancies arising from the alimentary tract. As of 2016, it is estimated that 8200 new cases of squamous cell cancers of the anus were diagnosed in the U.

May 29th, 2021 - Anal cancer is a rare malignancy with an estimated 8,580 new cases each year in the USA where hematochezia, a common condition, is often the initial presenting sign. We describe a 51-year-old woman who presented with painful hematochezia, with a d...

May 27th, 2021 - Anal infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes 16 and 18 and anal cancer are overrepresented in men who have sex with men (MSM). This study investigated HPV prevalence in young MSM before and after the implementation of a schoo...

May 25th, 2021 - HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) are a vulnerable group for anal cancer (AC), a cancer with a well-described precursor lesion, which can be early detected in screening programs using anal liquid-based cytology (aLBC). We aim to compare...

May 25th, 2021 - Anal cancer is a rare disease that disproportionately affects people living with HIV and men who have sex with men (MSM). Although screening of MSM living with HIV occurs in the absence of consistent national guidelines, less research exists on sc...

May 24th, 2021 - Anal squamous cell carcinomas (ASCC) are strongly associated with human papillomaviruses. Standard of care is chemoradiotherapy at uniform doses with no treatment stratification. Immunohistochemical staining for p16INK4A (p16), a surrogate for hum...

Feb 21st, 2021 - HIV-positive patients who are adherent with antiretroviral medications are achieving undetectable or very low levels of HIV viremia and living longer. In response, clinical care is continually adapting to the dramatically altered natural history o...

Jan 13th, 2021 - Incidence and Mortality Estimated new cases and deaths from anal, anal canal, and anorectal cancer in the United States in 2021:[1]

Nov 4th, 2020 - Radiotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of anal cancer, but many female survivors treated with pelvic radiotherapy develop long-term sexual problems. A new study shows that it is possible to reduce the dose of radiation reaching the ...

Jun 24th, 2020 - UPDATED with comments  June 25, 2020 // This story has been updated with comments about the study from Dr Michael Buckstein. Carboplatin plus paclitaxel should now be considered the standard of care for patients with advanced anal cancer, in place...

Jun 23rd, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with advanced anal cancer, carboplatin plus paclitaxel was associated with less toxicity and a trend toward longer survival compared with cisplatin and fluorouracil (FU), in a midstage study. These results "...