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Patients with rectal cancer who are monitored using a watch-and-wait approach are more likely to have a good quality of life, whereas those who undergo surgery appear to experience deterioration in quality of life and functional outcome, as reported in a study.

Severe dysmenorrhoea, pain related to urinary and gastrointestinal tracts, higher fertility desire and infertility rate are all associated with deep infiltrating endometriosis, according to a Singapore study. On the other hand, heavy menstrual bleeding is predictive of adenomyosis.

In the initial endoscopic treatment of peptic ulcer bleeding, the use of polysaccharide hemostatic powder appears to be not less efficacious than conventional treatment, according to a study.

A study on titrated ondansetron for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea (IBS-D) has fallen short of meeting the endpoint due to being underpowered. However, when data from this study and two others were pooled in a meta-analysis, ondansetron appears to yield significant improvements in the composite endpoint set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), namely stool consistency and urgency.

Maintenance treatment with 5-aminosalicylates (5-ASA) in patients with newly diagnosed Crohn's disease (CD) does not appear to lead to better outcomes as compared with a watchful waiting approach, according to a study.