Cancer Surgery

SAN DIEGO — In this video, Rochelle F. Andreotti, MD, a professor of clinical radiology, radiological sciences and OB/GYN at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, recaps her endowed lecture on adnexal mass evaluation.

Black and Hispanic women had a higher risk than white women for ED visits within 90 days after breast cancer surgery, according to a population-based study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

Insurers of patients with private insurance who underwent cancer surgery spent more per surgical episode at NCI centers than at community hospitals, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Black men with untreated, nonmetastatic prostate cancer appeared significantly less likely than their white counterparts to undergo prostatectomy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA Oncology.

The FDA provided clearance for Molli, a wire-free localization technology that allows radiologists to mark lesions for removal during breast cancer surgery, according to a press release from the device’s manufacturer.

Hospitals in the highest tier of case volume may offer better outcomes for patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancers, according to study results.

The FDA granted priority review to pafolacianine sodium injection as an intraoperative adjunct to help identify ovarian cancer during surgery, according to the agent’s manufacturer.

Only about half of Medicare beneficiaries who underwent surgery for cancer achieved optimal outcomes, according to study results published in Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

As more women seek careers in medicine — and specifically in the field of oncology — they remain underrepresented in many areas of clinical practice.

A recent study showed that patients who are treated at top-ranked cancer centers are more likely to have better survival outcomes than patients who are treated at those centers’ affiliates. It was the top story in hematology/oncology last week.