Bladder-Sparing Neoadjuvant Protocol Gets High Marks for MIBC
More than 40% of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) avoided immediate cystectomy after achieving a clinical complete response (cCR) with a chemoimmunotherapy combination, a prospective study showed. Overall, 33 of 76 patients with MIBC achieved a cCR by stringently defined criteria following transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) and treatment with gemcitabine, cisplatin, and […]
Opinion | ‘This Is a Good News Story’: What We Heard This Week
“This is a good news story.” — Carol Mangione, MD, immediate past chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, on new draft guidance from the influential panel recommending biennial mammography screening starting at age 40 for women at average risk for breast cancer. “They’re just charging these exorbitant rates to a very small population […]
Diet and exercise programs alone won’t tackle childhood obesity: Childhood obesity is complex and requires complex solutions
Focusing on immediate fixes such as diet and exercise programs alone won’t curb the tide of childhood obesity, according to a new study that for the first time maps the complex pathways that lead to obesity in childhood. Coordinated by the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre the study finds children whose parents did not […]
Immediate Complete Revascularization Non-Inferior to Staged Procedure
NEW ORLEANS – Immediate complete revascularization was non-inferior to staged complete revascularization in patients who presented with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and multivessel disease, according to BIOVASC trial findings. In the prospective, open-label study, the composite primary outcome occurred in 7.6% of 764 patients in the immediate complete revascularization group and in 9.4% of 761 […]