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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 23, 2015
Key clinical point: Trastuzumab emtansine was well tolerated by patients with HER2-positive early-stage breast cancer.
Major finding: Of the 148 p...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 23, 2015
Key clinical point: The short-term survival benefit conferred by ipilimumab therapy in advanced melanoma extends to at least 5 years.
Major findin...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 18, 2015
Key clinical point: A 6-month course of 3 mg/kg per day propranolol induced complete or nearly complete resolution of proliferating infantile hema...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 18, 2015
Key clinical point: A 6-month course of 3 mg/kg per day propranolol induced complete or nearly complete resolution of proliferating infantile hema...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 18, 2015
Key clinical point: One variable associated with mechanical ventilation – driving pressure – may predict mortality risk in acute respi...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 17, 2015
Key clinical point: Clinicians should offer additional radiotherapy to ADT patients with “clinically node-negative, locally advanced prostat...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 17, 2015
Key clinical point: Adding bevacizumab to standard chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer yields minimal benefit at high cost.
Major findin...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 17, 2015
Key clinical point: Twenty-four weeks of varenicline therapy aimed at gradually cutting back on cigarette smoking can improve quit rates for smoke...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 17, 2015
Key clinical point: Acute methylprednisolone decreased the rate of treatment failure in severe community-acquired pneumonia with a high initial in...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 13, 2015
Key clinical point: HPV-16 E6 seropositivity was relatively common among people who went on to develop anal cancer, and less common but still elev...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 12, 2015
Key clinical point: Both overall survival and progression-free survival were significantly improved when complete resection was achieved, but not ...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 12, 2015
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 11, 2015
Key clinical point: Smoking is now thought to cause many deaths from infections; renal failure; liver cirrhosis; digestive diseases; and breast, p...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 10, 2015
Key clinical point: The survival benefit of ICDs persists with increasing patient age, but attenuates.
Major finding: All-cause mortality was 21.3...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 9, 2015
Key clinical point: Crizotinib induced a response in 80% of patients who had refractory stage 4 NSCLC with rearrangements of the c-ros oncogene 1 ...
