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  1. 26-10-2022 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    Minimal access breast surgery ‘valid’ option for early breast cancer

    Minimal access breast surgery offers comparable long-term outcomes to conventional surgery for women with stage 0–III breast cancer, show the results of a propensity-matched, retrospective cohort study.

  2. 10-08-2022 | Esophageal cancer | Adis Journal Club | Article
    Oncology and Therapy

    The Implementation of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Treatment of Esophageal Cancer: A Step Toward Better Outcomes?

    The aim of minimally invasive surgery is to reduce the surgical trauma, resulting in faster recovery, reduction in complications, and better quality of life after surgery.

  3. 24-06-2022 | Prostate cancer | News | Article

    Focal ultrasound may offer intermediate-risk prostate cancer alternative to radiation, surgery

    Nevertheless, the authors emphasize that “most” of the men in their study would otherwise have undergone radiotherapy or surgery but just 15% went on to have grade group 3 or more severe disease during the follow-up period. medwireNews is an independent medical news service provided by Springer Healthcare Ltd. © 2022 Springer Healthcare Ltd, part of the Springer Nature Group Lancet Oncol 2022; doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00251-0

  4. 01-12-2021 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    UK PROSPER trial backs early exercise after breast cancer surgery

    Early, structured exercise reduces upper limb disability and improves physical quality of life compared with usual care among women at risk for postoperative complications following breast cancer surgery, UK PROSPER study data show.

  5. 14-10-2021 | COVID-19 | News | Article

    Cancer surgery systems need strengthening against future societal lockdowns

    Data form the international COVIDSurg collaborative study show that around one in seven patients did not undergo planned surgery for cancer if their region was in full COVID-19 lockdown.

  6. 10-09-2021 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    Surgery extent impacts long-term QoL in young breast cancer survivors

    Young women who undergo mastectomy for breast cancer report poorer quality of life than those treated with breast conserving therapy more than 5 years after surgery, particularly when they also receive radiotherapy, research shows.

  7. 16-09-2021 | Breast cancer | Adis Journal Club | Article
    Oncology and Therapy

    Does Breast Cancer Surgery Impact Functional Status and Independence in Older Patients? A Narrative Review

    DOI [Teaser] Key Summary Points Breast cancer surgery is assumed to have minimal impact on the functional status of older women compared to other types of cancer surgery, for example, for intra-abdominal cancers.

  8. 19-03-2021 | COVID-19 | News | Article
    News in brief

    COVID-19: Changes in cancer surgery volume reported

    Canadian researchers have evaluated the changes in cancer surgical volume in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  9. 18-08-2023 | Non-small-cell lung cancer | News | Article

    Combining SABR with immunotherapy prolongs NSCLC event-free survival

    “As such, it might be interesting to explore the effectiveness of I-SABR compared with immunotherapy and surgery for participants with resectable, early-stage NSCLC,” they conclude.

  10. 15-06-2023 | Non-small-cell lung cancer | News | Article
    ASCO 2023

    Interim KEYNOTE-671 findings support perioperative pembrolizumab for resectable NSCLC

    The KEYNOTE-671 trial points to a significant improvement in event-free survival for patients with early-stage, non-small-cell lung cancer with use of pembrolizumab before and after surgery.

  11. 14-04-2023 | Lung cancer | News | Article

    Addition of ipilimumab to neoadjuvant nivolumab–chemo for NSCLC warrants further investigation

    In the nivolumab plus chemotherapy cohort, all patients had surgery as planned.

  12. 31-10-2022 | CNS metastases | News | Article

    Survivors face less late cognitive deterioration after stereotactic radiosurgery than WBRT

    Stereotactic radiosurgery is associated with better long-term cognitive function than whole-brain radiotherapy in people with a limited number of brain metastases, suggests a secondary analysis of a clinical trial.

  13. 29-03-2023 | Prostate cancer | News | Article

    ProtecT 15-year results: Prostate cancer-specific mortality ‘low’ irrespective of treatment

    The 15-year data from the ProtecT trial show low rates of prostate cancer-specific mortality among men with prostate-specific antigen-detected, localized disease regardless of whether they received active monitoring, prostatectomy, or radiotherapy.

  14. 01-03-2023 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    PRIME II ‘extremely reassuring’ on radiotherapy omission in older women with early breast cancer

    The 10-year data from the PRIME II trial suggest that radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery can be omitted for women aged 65 years or older with low-risk, hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer.

  15. 27-11-2019 | Non-small-cell lung cancer | News | Article

    Surgery plus lymph node examination leads to best survival in early NSCLC

    Curative-intent surgery for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer results in better long-term overall survival than stereotactic body radiotherapy, particularly when combined with an appropriate degree of regional lymph node examination, researchers report.

  16. 17-02-2023 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    T-VEC warrants further investigation as neoadjuvant add-on in TNBC

    This was followed by four cycles of doxorubicin 60 mg/m 2 and cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m 2 given every 2 weeks and surgery.

  17. 04-02-2019 | Prostate cancer | News | Article
    News in brief

    Time to prostate cancer surgery does not affect outcomes in higher-risk patients

    When the 1392 participants were categorized by time from diagnostic biopsy to surgery, the risk for biochemical recurrence, metastasis, and prostate-cancer or all-cause mortality was not significantly increased for men who had surgery between 8 and 12 weeks or more than 12 weeks after diagnosis compared with those who were operated upon within 8 weeks of diagnosis, after adjusting for factors such as surgical margin and nodal status.

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    Fertility sparing surgery

  19. 01-08-2018 | Colorectal cancer | News | Article

    Benefits of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal liver metastases highlighted

    Minimally invasive liver surgery is associated with less postoperative morbidity, fewer major complications, and shorter hospital stays than open surgery among patients with colorectal liver metastases, Italian researchers report.

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