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Younger age, greater anxiety, affect pain after breast reconstruction
Younger age, bilateral procedure, and presurgery depression and anxiety are among the significant contributors to pain after breast reconstruction...
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ASCO and AHA: Maintain high suspicion for cardiac dysfunction
New guideline encourages clinicians to maintain a high suspicion for cardiac dysfunction and a low threshold for cardiac assessment with any...
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Lower analgesic use after robotic pelvic surgery
Postoperative use of both opioid and nonopioid analgesics was lower after robotic surgery than after laparotomy for endometrial cancer.
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Halogenated anesthetic linked to less chronic postop mastectomy pain
The use of halogenated agents for anesthetic during a mastectomy operation may be associated with a lower incidence of long-term chronic...
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Phase II trial: Drug reduces sickle cell ‘pain crises’
Of patients in the SUSTAIN trail on high-dose crizanlizumab, 36% had no ‘pain crisis’ attacks.
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Age correlated with occult cancer in VTE patients
The percentage of VTE patients who had occult cancer increased with advancing age, from 2%-3% in the youngest age group to 8%-12% in the oldest...
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Biosimilar trastuzumab shows similar efficacy
A trastuzumab biosimilar drug has shown an equivalent response, compared with trastuzumab, in the treatment of ERBB2 (HER2)-positive metastatic...
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VIDEO: Y90 radioembolization beat chemoembolization in liver cancer
Liver cancer took nearly four times longer to progress after yttrium-90 radioembolization than after conventional transarterial chemoembolization...
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In lung cancer screening, patient education works
Patients showed marked improvement in knowledge of screening criteria and potential harms after a counseling session, but the improvements faded...
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Increased death rate with platelets for aspirin/clopidogrel GI bleed
Patients with normal platelet counts who have a GI bleed while on antiplatelets were almost six times more likely to die in the hospital if they...
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Adding metronomic chemo provides no benefit to MAP for osteosarcoma
Adding low-dose metronomic chemotherapy (oral cyclophosphamide and methotrexate) to standard methotrexate, adriamycin, and platinum (MAP)...