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Lung cancer screening tied to reduced mortality
In an observational study conducted in Poland, individuals who participated in a low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening programme had a reduction in all-cause mortality compared with a matched control group extracted from a general Polish cohort.

Prognosis role of blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin ratio established in IPAH
A higher ratio of blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin is indicative of worse outcomes and disease severity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), according to a study.

Speeding COVID-19 symptom recovery may not fall within the realm of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir
Treating COVID-19 patients who had been vaccinated or did not have risk factors for severe disease with ritonavir-boosted nirmatrelvir (nirmatrelvir–ritonavir) did not expedite the time to symptom alleviation, reported investigators in the EPIC-SR trial.

Anlotinib plus etoposide/carboplatin improves survival in extensive-stage SCLC
Use of anlotinib combined with etoposide and carboplatin (EC; chemotherapy) as first-line therapy for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) yields a significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) as well as overall survival (OS) benefits when compared with chemotherapy, according to data from the phase III ETER701 trial presented at ELCC 2024.




