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Adoption of robotic systems by orthopedic surgeons has been slow and limited due to lack of improved efficiencies, the requirement of significant capital expenditure and no convincing evidence of changes in outcomes, according to an article in The Journal of Arthroplasty, by Brian S. Parsley, MD, in 2018. However, since these were first introduced in the specialty, robotics have continued to evolve, Parsley noted, which provide greater opportunities for advanced surgical planning, optimization of component placement and improved overall mechanical alignment.

SAN ANTONIO — Residual cancer burden after neoadjuvant chemotherapy accurately predicted long-term recurrence risk and survival across all breast cancer subtypes, according to results of a meta-analysis presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

SAN ANTONIO — Two common hormone therapy regimens had opposite long-term effects on breast cancer incidence among postmenopausal women, according to results from two large randomized controlled Women’s Health Initiative trials presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

SAN ANTONIO — Margetuximab plus chemotherapy conferred a numerically small but statistically significant PFS and OS compared with trastuzumab plus chemotherapy for patients with relapsed or refractory HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, according to results of a second interim analysis of the randomized phase 3 SOPHIA trial presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — An investigational anti-CD73 antibody appeared safe and demonstrated promising antitumor activity among patients with advanced cancers, according to phase 1/1b trial data presented at Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting.

Comparative serum protein biomarker profiling may allow researchers to identify patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease and/or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to findings published in Arthritis Rheumatology.

There are endless idioms about blood. It is thicker than water, but one cannot get it from a stone. Truman Capote wrote about the cold version, rock band Foreigner sang about the hot version. When it comes to rheumatic diseases, researchers are out for blood — blood-based biomarkers, that is.

Findings published in Pediatrics suggest that a child’s chance of survival in an emergency may depend on the hospital where they receive care.

Children with more than one febrile UTI are at a significantly increased risk for kidney scarring, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers wrote that the risk for scarring increases with each additional febrile infection.

HemOnc Today held a reception at ASCO Annual Meeting to honor its third class of Next Gen Innovators.