Washington University School Of Medicine In St Louis

CHICAGO — High-deductible health plans appeared associated with shorter survival among cancer survivors, according to results of a nationwide population-based analysis presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

It took more than 35 years for tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, which Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD, and colleagues first reported on in 1988 for the treatment of advanced melanoma, to progress enough to gain FDA approval.

Focused ultrasound could provide clinicians a safer alternative in diagnosing, monitoring and treating patients with brain tumors compared with biopsy, according to findings published in npj Precision Oncology.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results showed patients who were obese preoperatively and were treated with semaglutide, an anti-obesity medication, had similar outcomes and complications after total hip arthroplasty vs. those who did not receive the drug.

Lymphatic fluid from surgical drains could offer important insights to guide treatment for certain patients with head and neck cancer, according to study results.

Smokers and heavy drinkers had increased risk for head and neck cancer, whereas healthy eating slightly decreased risk, according to study data published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

Black patients have a three- to five-fold increased incidence of primary chronic cutaneous lupus vs. white patients, but are often completely missing from training materials and most images of cutaneous lupus rashes online.

Giving IV levothyroxine to hemodynamically unstable brain-dead potential heart donors did not result in more transplants compared with placebo, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A novel liquid biopsy test can help determine whether patients with oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer will benefit more from targeted, high-dose radiation instead of drug-based therapy, according to study results.

Results published in the Journal of Arthroplasty showed patients aged 30 years and younger who underwent contemporary total hip arthroplasty had improved clinical outcomes at 10 years with encouraging survivorship rates.