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A grassroots organization that formed with the goal of recalibrating cancer care around patient needs issued guidance intended to improve the design of randomized phase 3 trials.

Institutional peer review led to recommended changes in more than one-quarter of radiotherapy treatment plans, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

The use of a 1-hour oral glucose tolerance test instead of a 2-hour OGTT may be more accurate in detecting diabetes postpartum, especially among women who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy, according to study findings.

Less than 5% of hospitalized adults with type 2 diabetes received an SGLT2 inhibitor or GLP-1 before being discharged, according to data from a cohort study published in the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications.

Breast cancer survivors who developed incident myocardial infarction or heart failure exhibited increased risk for adverse oncologic outcomes, according to a population-based cohort study.

Published results showed use of an accelerometer to track physical activity after ACL reconstruction may be associated with improved recovery outcomes compared with   traditional patient-reported tracking.

Early receipt of palliative care appeared linked to less aggressive end-of-life care for women with ovarian cancer, according to study results.

Living kidney donors in Canada were mostly satisfied with long-term care and follow-up but expressed the need for specialist care when new issues arose and more information about outcomes and lifestyle, according to survey results.

Women with obesity and atherosclerotic CVD without diabetes experience fewer CV events vs. men enrolled in the SELECT trial; however, semaglutide was linked to significant reductions in CV events regardless of sex, a speaker reported.

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