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Pancreatic cancer may be identified early if assessment will be steered towards the point of recent hyperglycaemia based on elevated HbA1c, suggests a retrospective cohort study, noting that such early detection may then improve survival in cancer patients.

Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy does not appear to put individuals who require gastric acid suppression at increased risk of gastric cancer, according to a study.

In the treatment of patients with luminal Crohn’s disease and multiple prior drug failures, risankizumab induces clinical response in about three out of four patients and steroid-free clinical remission in about half, according to a study.

Adagrasib appears to have some effect against metastatic, KRAS G12C-mutated colorectal cancer when used in treatment-experienced patients either as oral monotherapy or in combination with cetuximab, according to the results of a phase I-II, open-label study.

Treatment with the antisense oligonucleotide bepirovirsen appears to lead to sustained loss of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in up to 10 percent of patients with chronic HBV infection, according to the results of the phase IIb study B-Clear.

A procalcitonin-guided algorithm could reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics in patients with acute pancreatitis, according to results of the PROCAP trial.