Oncology
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Skip the sphincterotomy before bile duct stent placement
Major finding: There were no significant differences in early or late complications among patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent stent...
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Simultaneous resection reduced repeat intervention
Major finding: No patients who had surgical cytoreduction of liver metastases at the time or primary tumor resection required a repeat hepatic...
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Ultralow-dose CT bests X-Ray for lung cancer follow-up, but is it enough?
Major finding: Minimal-dose CT detected 94.2% of new or recurrent lung cancer, compared with 21.1% for chest x-ray.Data source: Prospective study...
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Postop surveillance sufficient for stage I testicular cancer
Major finding: The 10-year cancer-specific survival was 99.6%.Data source: Retrospective, nationwide cohort study of surveillance in 1,822 men...
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Standard-dose radiation bests high-dose radiation in advanced NSCLC
Major finding: Patients with stage-III non–small cell lung cancer who received high-dose radiation had a 56% greater risk of death than those on a...
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FDA approves radiotherapy for metastatic prostate cancer
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Genetic tests gauge breast-cancer recurrence risk
Major finding: Low-risk patients by the PAM50 test had 97.6% 15-year disease-free survival compared with 82.5% in high-risk patients. Data source...
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FDA advisory panel nixes approval of drug-device for liver metastases
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FDA advisory panel decides tivozanib falls short for advanced renal cell carcinoma
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Mammography screening at 75 may have value
Major finding: Women aged 75 years and older were 3 times more likely to die from breast cancer if they went 5 or more years between mammograms,...
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High CRP augurs worse outcomes from palliative surgery for cancer
Major finding: The hazard ratio for worse survival after palliative surgery among advanced cancer patients with elevated C-reactive protein was 3....