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An observational single-institution cohort study provides evidence that levetiracetam use throughout the duration of standard chemotherapy is associated with longer median overall survival (OS) in patients with isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild-type glioblastoma.

In the second-line treatment of patients advanced oesophageal cancer, the use of programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) inhibitors yields more favourable outcomes than chemotherapy across multiple patient subgroups, according to the results of a meta-analysis.

Renal function considerably decreases over the long term for most bladder cancer patients who underwent radical cystectomy, a study has found.

Temozolomide administered to patients with glioblastoma at full actual body weight dosing during the concurrent phase is necessary to achieve a median overall survival (OS) that is similar to that seen in a previous trial, according to a recent study.

The circulating levels of microRNA (miR)-146a is a potential noninvasive biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in both paediatric and adult patients, a recent study has found.

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening was associated with similar decrease in incidence of advanced prostate cancer (PCa) among statin users vs nonusers, but less detection of low-grade localized tumours in the former than the latter — indicating that statin does not compromise the benefits of PSA-based screening while also conferring the benefit of less overdiagnosis of low-risk tumours.