Surgical Oncology
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Team planning cuts pancreatectomy readmissions
Major finding: Readmission after pancreatectomy dropped from 24% to 11% after implementation of a multifaceted effort to reduce infections and...
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Endoscopic mucosal resection new gold standard for esophageal adenocarcinoma
Major finding: Endoscopic resection of esophageal adenocarcinoma resulted in a long-term complete remission rate of 93.8%.Data source: Data from 1...
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Prior resection poses certain risks in lung transplantation
Major finding: Survival at 1 and 5 years was 83.6% and 48.4%, respectively, in the nonresection group, and 78.9% and 45.6% in the prior-resection...
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Thyroid cancer rise mostly overdiagnosis
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Esophagectomy treatment response nodes provide prognostic information
Major finding: In 62 patients classified as having limited or no nodal involvement, the presence of treatment response nodes was associated with...
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Guidelines: No ink on tumor is adequate surgical margin for early-stage breast cancer
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Poor accrual halts one in five cancer clinical trials
Major finding: About 20% of cancer clinical trials fail to reach completion for reasons unrelated to efficacy or toxicity, and the most common...
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Complications after gastric cancer resection portend poor outcomes
Major finding: Patients experiencing postoperative complications were more likely to die (HR, 1.6) and less likely to receive adjuvant therapy (48...
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Imaging, biomarkers, clinical findings guide approach to indeterminate pulmonary nodules
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Inflammatory markers associated with IBD colon cancer risk
Major finding: The risk of colorectal cancer is more than double for IBD patients with the highest quartile values of CRP (P for trend = .017) and...