Medical News
'COVID effect' leads to fewer heart surgeries, more patient deaths
EurekAlert! - 30 Jan 2021 07:00
(The Society of Thoracic Surgeons) The most deadly global health crisis in a century has resulted in a substantial decline in overall heart surgery volume and an unexplained increase in deaths after coronary artery bypas...
ERAS program expedites recovery for congenital heart surgery patients
EurekAlert! - 30 Jan 2021 07:00
(The Society of Thoracic Surgeons) Select patients born with heart defects and who undergo congenital heart surgery recover with few complications and reduced opioid use when a comprehensive, evidence-based enhanced reco...
LCMC3: Neoadjuvant atezolizumab safe, meets primary endpoint of pathologic response rate
EurekAlert! - 30 Jan 2021 07:00
(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Primary analysis of the Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium (LCMC) 3 study revealed that neoadjuvant atezolizumab prior to lung cancer surgery was well tolerated by pa...
Selected gene mRNA expression is not predictive of improved overall survival
EurekAlert! - 30 Jan 2021 07:00
(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) )-- A phase III study examining whether messenger (m)RNA expression correlated with sensitivity or resistance to chemotherapy did not confer a statistically signif...
Study finds potential therapeutic targets to inhibit colorectal cancer progression
EurekAlert! - 30 Jan 2021 07:00
(Nagoya University) Nagoya University researchers and colleagues have revealed that colorectal cancer tissues contain at least two types of fibroblasts, namely, cancer-promoting fibroblasts and cancer-restraining fibrobl...
TALENT study supports NLCST and NELSON trial results
EurekAlert! - 30 Jan 2021 07:00
(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) A study presented today by researchers with the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan confirmed the effectiveness of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screeni...
Women undergo less aggressive open heart surgery, experience worse outcomes than men
EurekAlert! - 30 Jan 2021 07:00
(The Society of Thoracic Surgeons) Women are significantly less likely than men to undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using guideline-recommended approaches, which may result in worse outcomes after surgery.