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VIDEO: Cervical cancer laparotomy outperforms minimally invasive surgery
NEW ORLEANS – Results showed open radical hysterectomy for early cervical cancer outperformed minimally invasive surgery.
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Researchers seek better understanding of von Willebrand disease
SAN DIEGO – Researchers are exploring the causes of VWD and ways to tailor treatments.
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Why is gene therapy for hemophilia taking so long?
SAN DIEGO – The short answer is that gene therapy vectors are complicated.
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Study: No increased risk of serious AEs with combined urogyn/gyn onc surgery
ORLANDO – Concurrent urogynecologic/gynecologic oncology surgery does not increase the risk of adverse events and should be offered to appropriate...
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Posttransplant skin conditions vary widely by ethnicity
Researcher highlights increased prevalence of keratinocyte neoplasms in whites/Far East Asians and Kaposi’s sarcoma in blacks.
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Posttransplant cyclophosphamide helped reduce GVHD rates
SALT LAKE CITY – The GVHD prophylaxis regimen had better survival rates than those of the tacrolimus-methotrexate control group.
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Accuracy of colon cancer lymph node sampling influenced by location
CHICAGO – A multicenter trial shows that left-sided colon cancer requires sampling more lymph nodes than does right-sided disease for true nodal...
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Ibrutinib preserves immune memory while fighting cGVHD
SALT LAKE CITY – The data come from a phase 1/2 trial of ibrutinib as second-line therapy for chronic graft versus host disease.
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Few acutely ill hospitalized patients receive VTE prophylaxis
The results “imply that there is a significantly unmet need for effective VTE prophylaxis in both the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care...
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Protocol helped identify hospitalized children at risk for VTE
SAN DIEGO – Children with hospital-acquired VTE tended to be more medically complex, a single-center study showed.
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Warfarin dose capping avoided supratherapeutic INRs in hospitalized elderly
SAN DIEGO – Limiting the initial dose of warfarin to 2.5 mg or less for hospitalized patients aged 85 years and older led to significant...