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Venous thromboembolism-related hospital readmissions after complex cancer surgery continued to increase beyond 30 days after surgery, according to a multicenter, population-based retrospective study in JAMA Surgery.

Among adults receiving treatment for low-risk thyroid cancer, negative emotions may play an important role in decision-making, according to qualitative study results published in Thyroid.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki significantly extended OS compared with chemotherapy among patients from Japan and South Korea with HER2-positive gastric cancer, according to results presented at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

According to a study in Orthopedics, patellar-sided medial patellofemoral ligament repair had a failure rate of less than 10% in patients with chronic, recurrent patellar instability and a low tibial tubercle-trochlear groove distance.

Using circulating tumor DNA to predict relapse after autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with multiple myeloma showed feasibility in a study presented at the virtual ASCO Annual Meeting.

Adults in the U.S. who identify as transgender or gender nonbinary more often reported worsening memory and thinking, functional limitations and depression than cisgender adults.

Using hearts from donors who died from a drug overdose does not reduce transplant recipient survival, so making more of those hearts available could decrease heart transplant wait times, according to two studies.

Disruptions in breast cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic may have a small long-term cumulative impact on breast cancer mortality in the U.S., according to study findings published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

A “marked decrease” in respiratory virus detections correlated with a 79% reduction in ambulatory antibiotic prescribing rates for respiratory tract infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers of a pre-post study wrote.

Quit Connect, an electronic health record protocol for referring rheumatology patients to tobacco quit lines implemented by staff at the University of Wisconsin, increased referrals 26-fold over a 6-month period, according to data.