Published in European radiology
To retrospectively review the causes of categorization errors using O-RADS-MRI score and to determine the presumptive causes of these misclassifications. EURAD database was retrospectively queried to identify misclassified lesions. In this cohort, 1194 evaluable patients with 1502 pelvic masses (277 malignant / 1225 benign lesions) underwent standa...
Published in Surgical endoscopy
Bariatric surgery is associated with decreased cancer-related mortality. An indefinite proportion of patients that undergo bariatric surgery have a history of malignancy or will develop cancer. In these patients, weight loss and oncologic evolution needed to be assessed. The aim of this study was to report the results of patients diagnosed with mal...
Published in Neuroimaging clinics of North America
Appropriate imaging strategies for the detection, treatment planning, and posttreatment monitoring of vestibular schwannomas will be discussed. The typical and variant imaging appearances of vestibular schwannomas, as well as the imaging features that should prompt consideration of differential diagnoses, will be illustrated. Understanding the natu...
Published in Der Pathologe
Während seines beruflichen Lebens widmete sich der Pathologe Albert Dietrich der Erforschung und Bekämpfung des Krebses. Er war langjähriger Herausgeber der Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung, Vorsitzender des „Deutschen Zentralausschusses für Krebsbekämpfung und Krebsforschung“ und wurde schließlich 1952 als einer der ersten Ärzte für seine diesbezügl...
BackgroundAlthough malignant bowel obstruction (MBO) often is a terminal event, systemic therapies are advocated for select patients to extend survival. This study aimed to evaluate factors associated with receipt of chemotherapy after MBO and to determine whether chemotherapy after MBO is associated with survival.MethodsThis retrospective cohort s...
Published in Oral oncology
Oral cavity and oropharyngeal squamous cell cancers (OC-OPSCC) display high cancer-specific mortality and increased non-cancer mortality. We examined cause of death in patients treated for OC-OPSCC with brachytherapy, chemotherapy, external beam radiation, surgery, or combination of modalities. We hypothesized that brachytherapy does not increase n...
Published in Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
This study aimed to review the surgical excision results and pathological diagnostic features of rarely observed intracardiac masses in the light of the literature. Diagnosis and treatment approaches and complications were evaluated. Forty patients (26 females, mean age 52.1±18.1 years, and 14 males, mean age 48.1±20.5 years), who had undergone sur...
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to examine the health-related quality of life of sexual minority survivors in comparison with heterosexual survivors. METHODS: Four hundred eighty eligible survivors participated in a telephone survey that measured survivors' outcomes, which consisted of physical and mental quality of life and self-rated fa...
Published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background To test the psychometric properties of a traditional Chinese version of the Resilience Scale for Children (RS-10) and examine its factorial structure via a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Methods One hundred and eighty-six Hong Kong Chinese children with cancer were recruited in the paediatric oncology units of two public acute-care ...
Published in Cancer Epidemiology
Background In many high-income countries cancer mortality rates have declined, however, socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality have widened over time with those in the most deprived areas bearing the greatest burden. Less is known about the contribution of specific cancers to inequalities in total cancer mortality. Methods Using high-qualit...
