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Cancer Medicine and Surgery current awareness bulletin

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November 2025

Acute lymphocytic leukaemia (Lancet review)

Amelanotic melanoma: diagnostic challenges, treatment innovations, and the emerging role of in early detection

Breast cancer clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes in women living with HIV/AIDS globally: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Bridging the gap: advancing occupational therapy in cancer recovery for better outcomes

Early breast cancer treatment and cardiac events: a systematic review

Factors affecting low health-related quality of life and health issues in gastric cancer survivors

Global perspectives on young-onset colorectal cancer: epidemiology, challenges, and advances

The global, regional, and national burden of cancer, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Interferon-α nasal spray prophylaxis reduces COVID-19 in cancer patients: a randomized, double-dlinded, placebo-controlled trial

Intrathecal drug delivery system in prepontine cistern for patients with intractable craniofacial cancer pain: a multicenter retrospective study

The Lancet Commission on addressing the global hepatocellular carcinoma burden: comprehensive strategies from prevention to treatment

Metabolomics biomarkers for breast cancer: an updated perspective

Oncolytic viruses as anticancer agents: clinical progress and remaining challenges

Palliative management of depression in advanced cancer

Palliative management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with advanced cancer

Patient reported outcomes in breast cancer: a plea for the silent and forgotten

Pharmaceutical pitfalls in treating patients with advanced cancer

Population health colorectal cancer screening strategies in adults aged 45 to 49 years

Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer mortality hotspots: a multi-state geospatial analysis

Risk prediction models for cancer therapy related cardiac dysfunction in patients with cancer and cancer survivors: systematic review and meta-analysis

Second cancers in 475 000 women with early invasive breast cancer diagnosed in England during 1993-2016: population based observational cohort study

Sheltered yet unscreened: exploring cancer screening rates and barriers in the unhoused (homeless) population

Time to definitive treatment in rectal cancer care coordination

Tumor lysis syndrome

Unmet care needs of adult survivors of thyroid cancer: a systematic review

Young-onset colorectal cancer quality of life and psychosocial concerns

Sources

American Journal of Surgery (Oct); Anesthesia and Analgesia (Aug); Australian Journal of General Practice (Aug); BMJ (Aug-Sep); Clinical Breast Cancer (Aug); Clinical Infectious Diseases (Aug); JAMA (Sep); JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery (Jul); Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Sep); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Aug); Lancet (Aug-Oct); NEJM (Sep); Seminars in Colon and Rectal Surgery (Sep)

September 2025

Abdominal and pelvic tumours in children: a review of diagnosis, management, and prognosis

Accuracy of transvaginal ultrasonography for staging of cervical cancer patients: a meta-analysis

Advancements and challenges in biomarker testing for tumors of the luminal gastrointestinal tract

The alarming rise of early-onset colorectal cancer

Balancing empathy and information in cancer treatment

Breast cancer treatment delay and the Hispanic paradox: a SEER database analysis

Burden of skin cancer in older adults from 1990 to 2021 and modelled projection to 2050

Clinical validation of a circulating tumor DNA–based blood test to screen for colorectal cancer

Doubling down: the new deal in the clinical management of double-refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Early onset colorectal cancer

Incidence rate of coronary atherosclerosis among cancer types during survivorship

The microbiome and cancer: a translational science review

Molecular testing and targeted therapies in hepatobiliary cancers: a review

Morbidity and oncological outcome after curative treatment in sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma

Neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab in locally advanced head and neck cancer

Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy vs chemoimmunotherapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Neoadjuvant therapy for mucosal head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a review from the American Head and Neck Society

Perioperative considerations of breast cancer neoadjuvant treatments

Radiomics for lung cancer diagnosis, management, and future prospects

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs

Strain elastography: a non-invasive modality for extrathyroidal extension assessment in papillary thyroid cancer

Structured exercise after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer

Testicular cancer (Lancet review)

Thyroidectomy with or without postoperative radioiodine for patients with low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer in the UK (IoN): a randomised, multicentre, non-inferiority trial

Sources

American Heart Journal (Oct); American Journal of Surgery, The (Jun); Australian Journal of General Practice (Jun); Blood (Jul); BMJ, The (Jun); Clinical Breast Cancer (Jul); Clinical Radiology (Jul); Diagnostic Histopathology (Jun); ENT: Ear, Nose & Throat Journal (Jun); JAMA (Jun); JAMA Dermatology (Jul); JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery (Jun); JAMA Surgery (May); Journal of Clinical Ultrasound (Jun); Lancet, The (Jul); Nature (Jul); NEJM (Jul); Surgery-Oxford (Aug)

July 2025

Advancing personalised care in ovarian cancer using CT and MRI radiomics

Cancer of unknown primary site

Cancer-related stigmatization, quality of life, and fear of death among newly diagnosed cancer patients

Chronic myeloid leukemia: a review (JAMA)

Demoralization syndrome in end-of-life cancer patients: a qualitative study

Diabetes can impact cellular immunity in solid tumors

Dostarlimab with platinum-based chemotherapy for treating primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer with high microsatellite instability or mismatch repair deficiency (new NICE guideline TA1064)

Enhanced CAR T-cell therapy for lymphoma after previous failure

Erdafitinib for treating unresectable or metastatic urothelial cancer with FGFR3 alterations after a PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor (new NICE guideline TA1062)

Gardening initiatives as an approach to cancer prevention for children and youth

Gastric cancer (Lancet seminar review)
Inflammatory breast cancer response to modern neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Lymphadenectomy or sentinel node biopsy for the management of endometrial cancer (new Cochrane intervention review)

Neoadjuvant PARP inhibitor scheduling in BRCA1 and BRCA2 related breast cancer (PARTNER)

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab for untreated unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer with high microsatellite instability or mismatch repair deficiency (new NICE guideline TA1065)

Ph-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia — 25 years of progress

Preventive medication deprescribing in advanced cancer patients approaching end of life

A proposed framework for monitoring and evaluating progress at the intersection of women, power, and cancer

Prostate cancer: a review (JAMA)

Small cell lung cancer: a review (JAMA)

Suspected cancer: recognition and referral (updated NICE guideline NG12)

Vaccines for preventing infections in adults with haematological malignancies (new Cochrane intervention review)

Yoga for fatigue in people with cancer (new Cochrane intervention review)

Sources

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine (Jun); American Journal of Surgery, The (May); Clinical Radiology (May); Cochrane Library (May-Jun); Internal Medicine Journal (Apr); JAMA (Apr-May); Lancet, The (May-Jun); Nature Communications (May); NEJM (May); NICE website (May-Jun); Omega (Jun); Public Health (May); Trends in Immunology (Apr)

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