Surgical Oncology
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Robotic pancreatic resection safe in 250-patient series
Major finding: Overall 30- and 90-day mortality rates were 0.8% and 2.0%, respectively, following various types of robotic-assisted major...
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Intratumor heterogeneity drives need for multiple biopsies
Major finding: Significant intratumor heterogeneity occurred in the genetic-profile results from three individual biopsies for 27% of primary...
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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...
Conference Coverage
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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Esophagectomy cases rising steadily
Major finding: In-hospital mortality occurred nationally in 5.8% of esophageal cancer patients who underwent transthoracic esophagectomy compared...
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Sequential laser therapy clears basal cell carcinomas
Major finding: Seven of 12 basal cell carcinomas treated with sequential lasers showed complete clinical and histologic clearance.Data source:...