(MedPage Today) — Detecting emphysema on a baseline low-dose CT (LDCT) scan for lung cancer screening predicted mortality over 25 years of follow-up in those with a history of smoking, a prospective study showed.
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Emphysema Not Just an Incidental Finding on Lung Cancer Screening CT
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Q&A: Lung Cancer Screening
John C. Leighton, MD, reviews the benefits and challenges of lung cancer screening. Medscape Oncology
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Lung Cancer: 5 Things to Know
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. These five things to know are key to emerging diagnostics, evolving treatments, and advances in supportive care. Medscape Oncology
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Q&A: Perioperative Therapy in Gastric Cancer
Dr. Karl J. D’Silva reviews current practices and future changes to perioperative and adjuvant therapy in gastric cancer. Medscape Oncology
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De-escalated Radiation Cuts Late Toxicity in Throat Cancer
A phase 3 trial shows that de-escalated postoperative radiotherapy reduces long-term toxicity and improves quality of life in HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer. Medscape Medical News
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Endocarditis Surgery Survivors Show Increased Mortality
Patients surviving valvular surgery for infective endocarditis have higher 5- and 10-year mortality rates than their peers from the general population, a study finds. Medscape News UK
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Radiotherapy Controls Active Vestibular Schwannomas
First-line radiotherapy achieves sustained tumor control in growing vestibular schwannomas at 10 years, a large international cohort study shows. Medscape Medical News
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Cardiac MRI predicts risk of death in dilated cardiomyopathy
A new strategy leverages the prognostic value of a late gadolinium enhancement and offers a quantitative versus qualitative approach…
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Breast calcifications affect MRI cancer treatment response prediction
Calcifications found in HER2-positive cancers lower the performance of MRI to predict pathologic complete response.