Treatment with chemoradiotherapy before systemic chemotherapy for rectal adenocarcinoma is a potential non-surgical option
1. Disease-free survival was not impacted by the order in which chemoradiotherapy CRT and systemic...
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Oncology
#VisualAbstract: Upper neck irradiation is noninferior to whole neck irradiation for newly diagnosed nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Click to read this study in The Lancet Oncology.
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Support for Liver Cancer at ASCO 2022
Liver cancer is the third-highest cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and incidence of...
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Increases in muscle-strengthening activities may reduce mortality risk and certain diseases
1. Muscle-strengthening activities (MSA) were associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular...
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#VisualAbstract: Aromatase inhibitors significantly reduce recurrence in premenopausal women with ER+ breast cancer and ovarian suppression
Click to read this study in The Lancet Oncology.
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Segmentectomy is superior to lobectomy for patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer
1. Patients who underwent segmentectomy reported a significantly greater 5-year overall survival...
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Lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab show similar health-related quality-of-life outcomes in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma compared to sunitinib
1. The median follow-up period for health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) outcomes analyses was...
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Ivosidenib and azacitidine showed significant clinical benefit in newly diagnosed IDH1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia
1. Event-free survival and median overall survival were significantly longer in the combination...
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COVID-19 pandemic associated with reductions in delivery of cancer care services in Ontario, Canada
1. This population-based cohort study demonstrated that there was a 20.7% reduction in cancer care...
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#VisualAbstract: Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy increases event-free survival in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer
1. Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy led to a longer event-free survival and higher...
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#VisualAbstract: Trastuzumab does not improve survival in patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma with HER2 overexpression
Click to read this study in The Lancet Oncology.
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Comparison of mastectomy and breast reconstruction versus conservative surgery with radiation
1. At 10-year follow-up, patients with early-stage breast cancer who underwent mastectomy with...
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Cabozantinib may be a viable first-line treatment in metastatic renal cell collecting duct carcinoma
1. Objective response rate was 35%, with 1 patient showing a complete response and 7 showing a...
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Elevated neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio associated with poor prognosis for head and neck cancer
1. This single-centred, observational cohort study demonstrated that among patients with head and...
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Pembrolizumab did not show overall survival benefit in patients with microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair-deficient metastatic colorectal cancer
1. The median overall survival for pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy was not statistically...
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Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy increases event-free survival in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer
1. Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy led to a longer event-free survival and higher...
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Exercise during early-stage breast cancer decreases health care utilization
1. Patients in the control group had higher mean health care utilization costs across the...
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Adjuvant chemotherapy associated with an improved overall survival for patients with locally advanced gastric cancer
1. In this retrospective cohort study, 462 patients with locally advanced gastric cancer...
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Neonatal Hypoglycemia and Academic Performance in Childhood
For a study, researchers sought to explore the hypothesis that neonatal hypoglycemia is related to...
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Prophylactic Oral Dextrose Gel and Neurosensory Impairment at 2-Year Follow-up of Participants in the hPOD Randomized Trial
For a study, researchers sought to investigate the effects of preventive dextrose gel on...
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