Cancer Surgery

Patients exposed to wildfires while recovering from lung cancer surgery had worse survival outcomes than their unexposed counterparts, study results showed.

Among women with stress urinary incontinence and endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia or early-stage cancer, concomitant surgeries for both conditions did not improve quality of life compared with cancer surgery alone, researchers reported.

One-fifth of patients who underwent gallbladder cancer surgery at top-performing centers experienced related complications within 90 days, according to results of a retrospective study published in Annals of Surgical Oncology.

A smartphone app-assisted postoperative monitoring intervention improved quality of recovery after cancer surgery, according to results of a study conducted at University of Calgary.

Palliative care specialist services provided around the time of cancer surgery with curative intent failed to significantly improve patient outcomes, results of a randomized study showed.

Women who had surgery up to 8 weeks after breast cancer diagnosis did not have worse overall survival than those with earlier times to surgery, according to a case series with more than 373,000 women published in JAMA Surgery.

Adults who underwent surgery for most cancer types had a significantly higher incidence of suicide compared with the U.S. general population, results of a retrospective study in JAMA Oncology showed.

Women who underwent surgery for gynecologic cancers experienced decreased symptoms of anxiety and pain with the use of acupressure before surgery and acupuncture during surgery, according to study results published in Cancer.

A restrictive opioid prescription protocol of 3 days or less after hospital discharge appeared feasible among a cohort of patients who underwent surgery at a large cancer center, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who required surgery for stomach, pancreas or liver cancers had lower access to high-volume hospitals than those enrolled in traditional Medicare plans, according to study results.