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Salvage chemotherapy is preferable over surgery in patients with alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) >30 µg/l and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) ≥20 mIU/ml after first-line chemotherapy, suggests a study.

Eleven different malignancies seem to be correlate with metabolic syndrome (MS), as well as with the presence of MS components, reports a recent study.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may lead to worse overall survival in women who had undergone mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction, a recent study has found.

The rates of positive surgical margin (PSM) with Retzius-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RS-RARP) are acceptable and higher in pT3 disease than in pT2, according to a study.

First-line treatment with pembrolizumab + chemotherapy maintains overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced or metastatic oesophageal cancer, according to an additional 12-month follow-up of the KEYNOTE-590* study presented at ASCO GI 2022.

The incidence of engraftment syndrome (ES), a common complication of autologous haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), is comparable between melphalan formulations among patients with multiple myeloma and immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis, reveals a study.

First-line treatment with a combination of nivolumab plus ipilimumab (NIVO + IPI) continues to show long-term survival benefits over sunitinib out to 5 years in patients with advanced clear-cell renal carcinoma (RCC) with sarcomatoid features, according to the CheckMate 214 study presented at GUCS 2022.