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Use of opioids in the long term leads to shorter length of stay (LOS) and reduced inpatient mortality among patients hospitalized with nonmetastatic colorectal cancer (CRC), results of a study have shown. However, patients with cancer-related complications endure longer LOS and higher mortality than those admitted without such morbidities.

The time elapsed between diagnosis of rectal cancer and initiation of neoadjuvant chemoradiation (NCRT) shows a significant association with pathologic complete response (pCR), and shortening this time may improve the likelihood of achieving pCR, suggests a recent study.

Prior history of ischaemic stroke appears to affect the risk of ischaemic stroke in patients newly diagnosed with cancer, according to a study from Canada presented at ASH 2021.

In a phase II study, the novel oral HIF*-2α inhibitor belzutifan showed promise for individuals with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) associated with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, a rare autosomal dominant hereditary disease associated with benign and malignant neoplasms, including clear-cell RCC, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours, and CNS** and retinal hemangioblastomas.

The combination of cabozantinib and atezolizumab in the first-line setting significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) compared with sorafenib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to results of the phase III COSMIC-312 trial presented at ESMO Asia 2021.

Four cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) results in better pathological response and survival than three NACT cycles in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer, reveals a recent study.

Induction with ixazomib-based regimens appear to be insufficient for older patients newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who are ineligible for transplantation, achieving an unsatisfactory progression-free survival (PFS) rate, reports a recent study.

Intracorporeal urinary diversion (ICUD) is associated with similar postoperative complication rates, reduced blood loss and shorter hospitalization vs extracorporeal urinary diversion (ECUD) in patients undergoing robotic-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) for localized bladder cancer, data from the Asian RARC Consortium registry have shown.