Background: Some people who suffer an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation die. The mortality rate was estimated at 12% in studies published before 1997, but a systematic survey of more recent ...

Efficacy and safety of oral vinorelbine (NVBO) in first- or second-line metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Background: Bevacizumab, a vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor, has shown to be active ...

A perforated bowel is a serious condition, and immediate action such as surgery needs to be taken to prevent infection and death. Bacteria and stool from the bowel can spill into the abdominal cavity, ...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were treated with tocilizumab (Actemra) had twice the risk of gastrointestinal perforations than those on tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, Swedish ...

A new report confirms earlier research that colon perforation in multiple myeloma is associated with corticosteroids, though the exact cause of the apparent link is not known. Colon perforation in ...

A Canceropole Nord-Ouest multicenter phase II trial of high-dose imatinib mesylate in metastatic uveal melanoma This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2008 ASCO Annual Meeting. This abstract does ...