Getting diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2020 How stress was part of Fred’s cancer story The psychological impact of a cancer diagnosis The 3 concepts Fred adopted after he was diagnosed with cancer Why Fred initially declined the conventional cancer protocol and started fasting Finding out...
Stage IIIC is the most common stage of locally advanced sub-stage of endometrial cancer, nevertheless, the optimal management for these patients remains controversial. Adjuvant chemotherapy alone more effectively suppressed distant metastases but resulted in a higher rate of pelvic failure, while adjuvant...
The addition of Immunoscore to a model containing all clinical variables significantly improved prediction of disease-free survival (P < .001) irrespective of MMR status.The investigators concluded, “Immunoscore is prognostic in stage III colorectal cancer treated with FOLFOX or CAPOX, includ...
A characteristic of Stage 3 breast cancer that received neoadjuvant chemotherapy: pCR is expected similar to stage 2, brain metastases in the pCR cases are highly in Her2-type and significantly has a poor prognosis in non-pCR casesdoi:10.1016/j.breast.2011.08.085Hiroshi...
Last year, there was a great deal of attention devoted to lymph node status and the staging of colon cancer. This culminated in the National Quality Forum endorsing the 12-node minimum as a proxy measure of quality and necessary for adequate staging. This, however, has been criticized as an...
Survival and recurrence after concomitant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cancer of the uterine cervix: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Interpretation: Concomitant chemotherapy and radiotherapy improves overall and progression-free survival and reduces local and distant recurrence in select... Green...
of targeting the breast tumour oestrogen receptor (ER) with the nonsteroidal anti-oestrogen tamoxifen and using extended durations (at least 5 years) of adjuvant therapy, dramatically increased patient survivorship and significantly enhanced a drop in national mortality rates from breast cancer. The...
Estimates the cost-effectiveness of combined levamisole and fluorouracil as adjuvant treatment for patients with stage three colon cancer. Calculations on the cost of treatment; Negligible effect of quality-of-life adjustments on the cost-effectiveness outcome; Recommendation for adjuvant therapy as a cos...
After submission of our paper published in this issue of Pediatric Radiology [ 1 ], we had the opportunity to perform external manual reduction in two additional children. The first was an 8-month-old boy whose symptoms included pain and nonbilious vomiting for 12h. He had an intussusception ...
Stage 3 Colorectal Cancer Survivor and Oncology Nurse. These are my thoughts... from both sides of the port.