Greater PFDE, PFNA, and PFUA associated with increased odds of previous melanoma.
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Proton FLASH radiotherapy is feasible, safe, and provides pain relief for cancer patients with bone metastases, according to a first-in-human trial.
Patients undergoing immediate surgery experience greater anxiety than patients in active surveillance.
Many thyroid cancers are discovered in patients who undergo surgery without thyroid-referable symptoms, an international study suggests.
Forty-six percent of patients who underwent thyroid-directed surgery had cancer; of these, 51 percent were asymptomatic.
An analysis of studies in the literature sought to determine the financial burden patients with thyroid cancer incur from diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance.
The risk of recurrence varied by patient age, tumor size, and number of foci.
The overall survival rate at 1 year was 86% with vandetanib and 70% with cabozantinib.
Patients with parathyroid carcinoma after localized resection for a presumed benign indication should undergo close monitoring for recurrence rather than radical surgery.
Researchers identified risk factors for distant metastasis in sporadic and hereditary medullary thyroid cancer.