Oncology
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Age, race impact prostate cancer risk
Major Finding: Men aged 75 years or older accounted for 12% of the population, but for 24% of intermediate-risk and 26% of high-risk disease.Data...
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Survival shorter in young gastric cancer patients
Major Finding: Patients diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma before age 40 years lived a median of 5 months; older patients lived a median of 8...
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Breast-conserving therapy improved survival over mastectomy
Major Finding: Women who underwent lumpectomy for stage I or II breast cancer were 28% less likely to die from any cause and up to 16% less likely...
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Cancer survival still lower for African Americans
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New tool predicts late recurrence in breast cancer
Major Finding: Among patients who remained disease free at 5 years, the 61% with a low baseline BCI score had a 3.5% rate of distant recurrence...
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Resecting residual gastrointestinal stromal tumors improved survival
Major Finding: Time to tumor progression was 88 months in 42 patients who had surgery for residual disease and 42 months in 92 patients given...
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FDA proposal encourages development of abuse deterrent opioids
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Ten-year data back shorter radiotherapy for breast cancer
Major Finding: The relapse rate at 10 years was 4.3% after the shorter 40 Gy regimen and 5.5% after the longer 50 Gy regimen, a nonsignificant...
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Late Leukemia Risk Rises after Breast Cancer Therapy
Major Finding: The 10-year incidence of leukemia after adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer appears to hover around 0.5%, twice as high as...
Case Reports
Soft-Tissue Benign Mesenchymoma in a Pediatric Patient
Soft tissue mesenchymoma is an exceptionally rare and benign neoplasm. Since its initial description in 1962, only 7 cases of cartilage...
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Patients' Worry, Not Risk, Drives Double Mastectomies
Major Finding: Eighty percent of 107 women who underwent contralateral prophylactic mastectomy had no clinical indication for the procedure.