Showing posts with label oncology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oncology. Show all posts
Monday, March 25, 2019

Growing evidence challenges conservative transfusion dogma

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The last few years have seen quite a push toward restrictive transfusion strategies with conservative hemoglobin (less than s...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Early arterial ischemic events after VTE in cancer patients

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From a recent report in AJM : •Arterial events are a major cause of death in cancer patients with ...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Stress cardiomyopathy in cancer patients

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From a recent study : Takotsubo syndrome, also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy (SC), is underrecognized in ca...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

The spectrum of pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors

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Free full text article .
Friday, October 05, 2018

Obesity, body fat distribution and cancer risk

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Form the British Journal of Cancer : Background: We evaluated the associations of anthropometric indicator...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Pan CT scanning to look for occult malignancy after a diagnosis of unprovoked VTE

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Not found to be helpful let alone cost effective.
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Management of recurrent VTE in cancer patients

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Here is a recent review . Form the review: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurs in 10–20%% of patients with cancer ...
Saturday, March 03, 2018

On line resources for cancer biology education

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A compilation of resources can be found here .

Cancer associated thrombosis

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Free review .
Thursday, February 01, 2018

Is there a difference between IgM multiple myeloma and Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia? Is it important?

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Yes and yes. Here’s a case report that discusses these questions.
Monday, January 22, 2018

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with a focus on diagnosis and screening

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Here is a free full text review . Recommendations are that all patients with cirrhosis be screened as well as certai...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Glioma and VTE

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Glioma is associated with hypercoagulability to a greater extent than many other neoplasms. However, as noted in this paper...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Pioglitazone and bladder cancer

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This BMJ study adds strength to the association: Design Population based cohort study. Setting General pra...
Monday, May 01, 2017

Carcinoids and other neuroendocrine tumors

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This review in the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine helps clarify the sometimes confusing terminology around th...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Evaluation and management of non-malignant pleural effusions

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Free full text review .
Saturday, July 09, 2016

Progress in the understanding and treatment of hairy cell leukemia

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From a recent review : Initially a uniformly fatal disease, new therapies in rapid succession transformed HCL into a...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Overview of hairy cell leukemia

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From a recent review article : Since the first clear description of HCL by Bouroncle in 1958 there has been a step c...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Review of tumor lysis syndrome

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Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Pioglitazone and cancer: the association remains unclear

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There has been a signal for a link between pioglitazone use and bladder cancer. But now, from a recent report in JAMA, an a...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Paraneoplastic neurologic disorders in small cell lung cancer are more common than appreciated

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---in this study : Methods: Two hundred sixty-four consecutive patients with biopsy-proven SCLC were recruited at th...