Surgical Oncology
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Pairing vascular reconstruction, pancreatic cancer resection
A more aggressive vascular resection and reconstruction in pancreatic cancer may improve outcomes and palliation.
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Bursectomy provides no benefit over omentectomy for gastric cancers
Bursectomy was not found to be superior to omentectomy for improving survival in patients with subserosal/serosal gastric cancer in a Japanese...
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Endoscopic resection alone sufficed in many T1 colorectal cancers
Patients with T1 colorectal cancer might not benefit from additional surgery after endoscopic resection unless they have positive or indeterminate...
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Adjuvant chemotherapy overused in young patients with colon cancer
Adjuvant chemotherapy may be overused among younger patients with colon cancer, without clear evidence of survival benefit over surgery alone.
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Age and disease stage predict long-term survival in elderly lung cancer patients
Although certain medical factors predict long-term survival in patients over age 65 with lung cancer, advanced age and disease stage are...
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Sleeve lobectomy appears better than pneumonectomy for NSCLC
Sleeve lobectomy for NSCLC may lead to higher rates of overall and disease-free survival vs. pneumonectomy.
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ASCO offers practice guidance on small renal masses
All patients with small renal masses detected on imaging should be considered for renal tumor biopsy when there is a likelihood that the results...
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Adjuvant chemo prolonged survival after radical nephroureterectomy
Adjuvant chemotherapy prolonged survival after radical nephroureterectomy by nearly a year, compared with observation alone, among patients with...
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Counsel women against unnecessary prophylactic mastectomies
Women with breast cancer are much less likely to opt for contralateral prophylactic mastectomies if they know it won’t prolong their lives,...
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SLND after neoadjuvant chemo is feasible, but more study needed
SAN ANTONIO – Sentinel lymph node detection after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is a safe and feasible strategy for preventing unnecessary...
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Noncancerous disease has a significant impact on lung cancer surgery survival
Following curative-intent resection of stage I NSCLC, noncancer-specific mortality is a significant competing event, with an increasing impact as...