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Patients who have nail unit melanoma (NUM) with a Breslow thickness (BT) of <0.8 mm may benefit from functional surgery, which offers an amputation-sparing advantage, suggests a recent study.

Treatment with hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) contributes to a lower all-cancer risk and a slightly higher skin cancer risk compared with alternative diuretics, reports a study involving a German population.

A 12-year review of Hong Kong Breast Cancer Registry (HKBCR) records of patients diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006–2017 showed that neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) was effective in tumour downstaging, with one-fifth of patients subsequently achieving pathological complete response (pCR) in the breast and axillary lymph nodes. Patients with HER2-positive (nonluminal) and triple-negative disease were most likely to achieve pCR.

Among patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) scheduled to receive standard combination therapy with atezolizumab plus bevacizumab, those with high levels of serum osteopontin at baseline are likely to have poor response to treatment, as shown in a study.

Individuals who are exposed to asbestos are at higher risk of lung cancer despite modest exposure to tobacco, reveals a recent study.

Neoadjuvant treatment with the PARP* inhibitor olaparib yielded encouraging outcomes in patients with BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer, with all participants completing two cycles of therapy followed by surgery in the NOW trial presented at SGO 2023.

In the third-line treatment of patients with refractory RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (MCRC), use of panitumumab plus the standard-of-care trifluridine-tipiracil appears to prolong progression-free survival (PFS) when compared with trifluridine-tipiracil alone, according to data from a phase II study.