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SBRT: Alternative to surgery in early stage lung cancer?
“From a public health perspective, SBRT is a good therapeutic option in terms of survival, especially for elderly and inoperable patients.”
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Surgery for early breast cancer can worsen frailty in older women
About 1 in 5 experienced clinically significant deterioration in frailty status after treatment for breast cancer.
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What do I have? How to tell patients you’re not sure
More than one-third of patients are discharged from an emergency department without a clear diagnosis, one analysis estimates.
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Posttransplant NASH patients fare worse with older donor livers
“Given the possibility of infectious graft complications, post–liver transplant follow-ups may need to be more comprehensive and frequent in these...
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Docs with one paid malpractice claim are four times more likely to have another
A new study’s findings suggest that a single malpractice claim may not be a random stroke of bad luck.
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Appendicitis more often missed in patients who are Black
“Delayed diagnosis may account for some of the racial and ethnic disparities observed in outcomes after appendicitis.”
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Less invasive NSCLC surgery does not compromise survival
New results contrast with those from a previous study from 1995.
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Guidance for PCI without on-site surgical backup updated
Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions updated guidance for percutaneous coronary intervention in nonhospital, outpatient...
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What happened to surgical mitral valve repair in the MitraClip era?
It was just as prevalent but with better outcomes as transcatheter mitral valve repair emerged to take on high-risk cases. But more than just a...
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Longer life after bariatric surgery, but suicide risk in young
Death from diabetes was 72% lower in the bariatric surgery patients versus nonsurgery peers.
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Renewed calls for fallopian tube removal to avoid ovarian cancer
There is increasing evidence that most high-grade serous ovarian cancers arise from cells in the fallopian tubes.