Surgical Oncology
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Assay may target early lung cancers for adjuvant therapy
Major Finding: The 5-year actuarial overall survival was 83%, 69%, and 52% among patients in assay-defined low-, medium-, and high-risk groups,...
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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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Minimally invasive breast biopsy lags in Texas
Major Finding: During 2008, 79% of Texas women aged 66 years or older undergoing breast biopsy had a minimally-invasive procedure.Data Source: A...
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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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Neoadjuvant chemo renders SLN biopsy less reliable
Major Finding: The false-negative rates of SLN biopsy were 14% for patients who had a chemotherapy-induced downstaging from cN1 to cN0 disease and...
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Ki67 in pretreatment breast biopsy predicts prognosis
Major Finding: When patients were split into three equal groups according to Ki67 cutpoints of low (less than or equal to 15%), intermediate (15.1...
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End-of-life care gains increasing prominence
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Lymph node count may not be best predictor of colon cancer survival
Major Finding: Lymph node count of 12 or higher was not associated with better 5-year survival rates in patients undergoing surgery to treat colon...
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Staged surgery found unnecessary for colorectal tumors
Major Finding: Removal of a colorectal tumor and synchronous liver metastases in a single operation or in two staged surgeries had equal outcomes....