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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: April 20, 2015
Key clinical point: Among adult brain tumor survivors who underwent partial- or whole-brain irradiation, treatment with donepezil compared with pl...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: April 20, 2015
Key clinical point: Risk of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) progression is reduced by 63% for patients with epidermal growth factor recep...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: April 13, 2015
Key clinical point: In Jehovah’s Witness patients with relapsed lymphoma or multiple myeloma, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) followed by autol...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: April 6, 2015
Key clinical point: Cixutumumab added to androgen deprivation (AD) therapy did not improve undetectable PSA rate in men with hormone-sensitive pro...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: April 6, 2015
Key clinical point: The prognosis for patients with chronic lymphocytic* leukemia who have undergone failed stem cell transplantation (SCT) is rel...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 23, 2015
Key clinical point: A biomarker panel of circulating tumor cell count and lactate dehydrogenase level provided a surrogate measure for overall sur...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 23, 2015
Key clinical point: A majority of previously treated patients with renal cell carcinoma benefited from nivolumab. Major finding: At a median 45-mon...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 19, 2015
Key clinical point: High Khorana score and elevated blood urea nitrogen predicted early mortality in patients after surgical resection for pancrea...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 16, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients who underwent hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation were significantly more likely to develop a fracture compared w...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 16, 2015
Key clinical point: Lapatinib is inferior to trastuzumab for treating patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer.
Major finding: The media...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 16, 2015
Key clinical point: In patients with melanoma at any stage, elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) was associated with poorer survival.
Major finding: ...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 16, 2015
Key clinical point: After surgical removal of tumors, lung cancer patients treated with atrial natriuretic peptide had a significantly lower recur...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 9, 2015
Key clinical point: Children with high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received stem cell transplants from matched sibling vs.
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 5, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with multiple myeloma who had prior knowledge of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) survived s...
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- Author:
- Jennifer Kelly Shepphird
Publish date: March 5, 2015
Key clinical point: As length of hospital participation in ACS NSQIP increased, the ratio of observed/expected surgery-related adverse events decl...
