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Patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) who do not have hypertension have higher levels of daytime sleepiness than those with hypertension, as evidenced in a recent study.
Patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) without brain metastasis who underwent prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) after achieving stable disease or better on first-line chemotherapy had improved overall survival (OS) compared with those who did not undergo PCI, according to a retrospective study from Singapore.
Investigators from the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK recently demonstrated a significant interaction between volume of identified calcifications and their mean radiotherapy (RT) dose in predicting survival in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Age ≥60 years and ≥20 percent of normal lung volume receiving a radiation dose of ≥20 Gy (V20) are significant predictors of radiation pneumonitis (RP) in patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for lung cancer, a Chinese study has shown.
Reduction in gross tumour volume (GTV) during concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CRT) may be linked to worse overall survival (OS) in patients with locally advanced lung adenocarcinoma, according to a recent study reported at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC 2018).
Prognostic nutrition index (PNI) strongly predicts clinical outcomes in patients with locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to two studies presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC 2018).
The implementation of point-of-care testing (POCT) for viral respiratory infections in emergency departments could reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and antibiotic treatment, according to a study from the UK.
An updated 10-year analysis of the RTOG 0214 trial showed that the use of prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) improved disease-free survival (DFS) and reduced brain metastases, but failed to improve overall survival (OS) in patients with locally advanced non-small-cell lung carcinoma (LA-NSCLC).
Adding nintedanib to standard-of-care pemetrexed-cisplatin doublet chemotherapy does not improve progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), the phase III LUME-Meso study has shown.
