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Head, neck cancer radiotherapy regimen saves time when resources limited
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- Neil Osterweil
A randomized controlled trial conducted in low- to middle-income countries showed that 11.5 days could be safely shaved off a conventional...
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Reducing cognitive impairment from SCLC brain metastases
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- Neil Osterweil
Stereotactic radiosurgery was better at preventing loss of verbal recall function at 3 months than whole-brain radiation therapy, the current...
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Short-course SBRT: Standard of care in prostate cancer?
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- Neil Osterweil
Stereotactic body radiation therapy delivered in five fractions provided similar 5-year disease control as conventional, higher-dose external-beam...
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Salvage option to replace transplant in r/r Hodgkin lymphoma?
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- Neil Osterweil
“The findings suggest that children, adolescents, and young adults with low-risk relapsed classic Hodgkin lymphoma can be salvaged with low-...
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Safely skip PET2 after brentuximab in Hodgkin lymphoma?
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- Neil Osterweil
Recent data presented at SOHO 2023 suggested that adding brentuximab vedotin to chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma improves outcomes, even without...
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Is additional treatment needed, pretransplant, for r/r AML?
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- Neil Osterweil
The issue of whether or not patients with r/r AML require additional treatment pretransplant was debated at SOHO 2023.
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Urine test shows promise for diagnosing urothelial carcinoma
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- Neil Osterweil
“The idea is that this could be used as kind of a first-pass screening tool for patients with hematuria that could potentially obviate the need...
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Do some randomized controlled trials stack the deck?
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- Neil Osterweil
“In the ethical design of clinical trials, patients make important sacrifices to participate, and in exchange, the academic and clinical...
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Does private equity ensure survival of GI practices?
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- Neil Osterweil
Private equity offers the allure of financial and administrative stability.
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Geriatric care principles should apply to ICUs as well
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- Neil Osterweil
Physical frailty, disabilities, and multimorbidities increase the risk for adverse outcomes among elderly patients with obstructive airways...
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Multiprong strategy makes clinical trials less White
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- Neil Osterweil
Only a small percentage of eligible patients participate in clinical trials in the first place, and very few come from racial and ethnic minority...
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CBSM phone app eases anxiety, depression in cancer patients
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- Neil Osterweil
Few patients with cancer have access to psycho-oncologic support.
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T-DXd active in many solid tumors; ‘shift in thinking’
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- Neil Osterweil
T-DXd is a potential new treatment option for patients with HER2-expressing solid tumors, experts say.
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CAR T-cell benefit in lenalidomide-refractory myeloma
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- Neil Osterweil
“Early CAR Ts demonstrating efficacy and safety and prior lines of treatment impact survival from CAR T in myeloma. Can this also be true for...
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CMML: GM-CSF inhibitor lenzilumab shows early promise
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- Neil Osterweil
The PREACH-M trial has yielded encouraging preliminary results in treating CMML, a rare, “insidious” leukemia that can transform into AML.