Surgical Oncology
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Post-mastectomy pain strategy allows for safe, same-day discharge
Strategy offers the potential to minimize inpatient admissions while decreasing oral narcotic use.
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Opioid use cut nearly 50% for urologic oncology surgery patients
Postoperative opioid use dropped after changing default order sets, introducing new patient communication strategies, and educating providers.
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More frequent CT surveillance in NSCLC doesn’t improve survival
A study looks at the impact of surveillance frequency on NSCLC survival.
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Prealbumin level predicts outcomes for HCC resection
Preoperative prealbumin level may be a better predictor of survival after curative HCC resection than the more commonly used albumin level.
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Percutaneous drainage upped morbidity risk in hepatobiliary cancer patients
ORLANDO – Compared to endoscopic drainage, percutaneous drainage was associated with a significantly increased morbidity and mortality, even after...
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Neoadjuvant-treated N2 rectal cancer linked to PCR failure
ORLANDO – Is a watch-and-wait protocol appropriate for pretreated N2 rectal cancer patients?
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Breast cancer patients don’t get the financial counseling they want from their clinicians
About half of medical oncologists, and fewer surgeons and radiation oncologists, have someone in their practice to discuss the financial...
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PREOPANC-1: Early findings suggest benefit with preop chemo in pancreatic cancer
Preliminary findings from the PREOPANC-1 trial suggest preoperative chemotherapy improves outcomes in pancreatic cancer patients.
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Study eyes liver transplantation after Region 5 UNOS downstaging
An estimated 87% of downstaged patients were alive and recurrence free 5 years after transplantation.
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Palliative care may reduce suicide among lung cancer patients
Most patients who died by suicide had not received palliative care.
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Delay of NSCLC surgery can lead to worse prognosis
SAN DIEGO – Clinical stages deteriorate week by week – even when timing guidelines are followed.