Gastroenterology
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Clinical staging of early esophageal cancer unreliable
Major Finding: Of 482 patients who went directly to surgery, 26% were downstaged, while 47% were upstaged.Data Source: A retrospective, database...
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Racial gap in gastric cancer survival narrows at 3 years
Major Finding: Three-year relative conditional survival rates for Asian, black, or white patients with gastric cancer who underwent curative...
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Capecitabine chemoradiotherapy effective in local pancreatic cancer
Major Finding: Median progression-free survival after 9 months of follow-up was 12 months in 35 patients given capecitabine plus radiotherapy...
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Survival shorter in young gastric cancer patients
Major Finding: Patients diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma before age 40 years lived a median of 5 months; older patients lived a median of 8...
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Screen asymptomatic siblings of CRC patients
Major Finding: The prevalence of advanced colorectal neoplasms was approximately three times higher among siblings of colorectal cancer patients (...
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Gene profiling predicted responses to colorectal, pancreatic cancer treatment
Major finding: Gene expression patterns identified three subtypes of stage II or III colorectal cancer with different responses to 5-FU–based...
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Add-on nab-paclitaxel extends survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer
Major Finding: Median overall survival in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer increased from 6.7 months on gemcitabine to 8.5 months on nab...
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Obesity, diabetes fuel liver disease epidemic
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Statins may reduce mortality in hepatocellular cancer
Major finding: Patients with hepatocellular cancer showed significantly improved median survival if they were on statins (22 months) compared with...
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Review: Interferon therapy for hepatitis C offers little benefit
Major Finding: The risk of all-cause mortality among hepatitis C patients receiving interferon monotherapy after not responding to prior treatment...