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In the treatment of Asian patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), shortened antibiotic treatment duration guided by clinical response compares favourably with longer treatment durations used in usual care in terms of 60-day mortality and pneumonia recurrence, as shown in the open-label REGARD-VAP trial.

The addition of internal mammary nodal irradiation (IMNI) in the treatment of breast cancer leads to better overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS), and lower breast cancer mortality (BCM), reveals a study. In addition, patients with pN+ and medial/central tumour location achieved the best OS from IMNI.

Treatment with larsucosterol is safe and well tolerated in patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH), as shown in a recent study.

A 52-week course of intensified androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) appears to extend prostate-specific antigen progression-free survival (PSA-PFS) in patients with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer (BRPC) compared with ADT alone, without prolonging time to testosterone recovery, according to the phase III open-label PRESTO trial.