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Dual therapy with vonoprazan and amoxicillin (VA-dual) for 10 days results in a 90.8-percent eradication rate of Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) and fewer adverse events (AEs) compared with the standard 14-day bismuth-based quadruple therapy (B-quadruple), a study has shown.

Olanzapine appears to be just as effective as fosaprepitant, a neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist (NK1-RA), in controlling chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in patients with gynaecologic malignancies who were receiving carboplatin/paclitaxel chemotherapy every 3 weeks, a prospective study presented at SGO 2024 suggests. However, the former trumps the latter in terms of cost effectiveness.

Soft topical steroid application and standard steroid treatment demonstrate similar efficacy and safety in patients who underwent cataract surgery, reports a study.

Neoadjuvant chemohormonal therapy (NCHT) plus radical prostatectomy (RP) confers significant biochemical progression-free survival (bPFS) benefits relative to neoadjuvant hormonal therapy (NHT) plus RP on patients with high-risk, locally advanced prostate cancer, reports a study.

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) from the phase III MIRASOL trial underpin the potential of the antibody drug conjugate mirvetuximab soravtansine (MIRV) to improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with folate receptor-alpha positive platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (FRα-positive PROC) as opposed to investigator’s choice of chemotherapy.