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While getting vaxxed remains the best protection against severe COVID-19, severe breakthrough infections are still possible, particularly in patients with haematological malignancies, a registry-based study has shown.

The treatment scope of oral anticoagulants (OACs) remains poor despite increasing treatment rates among high-risk atrial fibrillation (AF) patients, which is primarily credited to the expanding direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) use, reports an Israel study.

Wristband actigraphy devices, through the help of deep-learning prediction models, can predict survival outcomes in end-stage cancer patients on palliative care, according to a recent study.

Interspinous diameter seems to be an important factor affecting the difficulty of laparoscopic surgery in patients with mid-low rectal cancer, suggesting that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pelvimetry is helpful in gauging the technical difficulty of rectal surgery, a recent study has found.

Adjuvant treatment with metformin does not improve outcomes in most patients with early breast cancer in a phase III study, suggesting that metformin should not be used as a breast cancer treatment in these patients.

In patients with RAS wild-type (WT) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who respond to first-line induction therapy with panitumumab plus fluorouracil, folinic acid and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX), maintenance panitumumab plus fluorouracil and folinic acid (FU/FA) significantly improves progression-free survival (PFS) vs FU/FA alone, results of the PANAMA trial have shown.