Patients with schizophrenia have a high incidence of diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, COPD, hypothyroidism, visual problems and other somatic diseases, but they tend to present late. Reuters Health Information
Dr. Maurie Markman comments on a study published in Clinical Cancer Research demonstrating the use of KRAS in circulating tumor cells to predict response to cetuximab in patients with mCRC. Medscape Genomic Medicine
Dr. Peter Yellowlees talks about the efficacy and acceptability of mood stabilizers in the treatment of acute bipolar depression. Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health
In patients with relapsing small-cell lung cancer, the topoisomerase inhibitor belotecan had only modest antitumor activity in a phase II study. Reuters Health Information