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For patients undergoing surgery for oesophageal and gastric cancer, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) appears to be a reliable predictor of major cardiovascular complications, as reported in a study.

A high intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) may be linked to an increased risk of liver cancer, according to an observational study on postmenopausal women presented at Nutrition 2022.

Treatment with the combination of ribociclib plus binimetinib appears to be well tolerated and delivers modest clinical activity in patients with locally advanced or metastatic melanoma harbouring NRAS mutation, according to the results of a phase Ib/II study.

In patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), the survival gap between older and younger patient can largely be attributed to deaths during the first year after resection, a recent study has found.

High blood pressure (BP) levels do not appear to be an important risk factor for prostate cancer development and death, a study reports.

In the final analysis of the phase III ICON8* study, a weekly dose-dense chemotherapy (CT) regimen comprising paclitaxel and carboplatin did not improve survival outcomes in women with epithelial ovarian cancer** compared with the standard first-line (1L) paclitaxel-carboplatin regimen given once every 3 weeks (Q3W).

Use of pembrolizumab helps maintain or improve health-related quality of life in patients with previously treated, advanced endometrial cancer characterized by high levels of microsatellite instability (MSI) or deficient mismatch repair (MSI-H/dMMR), according to data from the phase II KEYNOTE-158 study.