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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Cancer Medicine and Surgery

Cancer Medicine and Surgery current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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January 2025

Advanced prostate cancer experimental radioactive treatment—clinical trial decision making: patient experiences

Cancer chemotherapy: incidence and predictors of 30-day mortality

Cancer pain self-management interventions in adults: scoping review

Cancer treatment refusal decisions in advanced cancer: a retrospective case–control study

CAR T cells and T-cell therapies for cancer: a translational science review

Colorectal cancer survivors’ quality of life: a qualitative study of unmet need

Decision tree algorithm to predict mortality in incurable cancer: a new prognostic model

Did Michelangelo paint a young adult woman with breast cancer in “The Flood” (Sistine Chapel, Rome)?

Digital health for cancer symptom management in palliative medicine: systematic review

The impact of intestinal and mammary microbiomes on breast cancer development: a review on the microbiota and oestrobolome roles in tumour microenvironments

Introducing palliative care in advanced cancer: a systematic review

Medical cannabis use in young adults with cancer: a self-reported survey study

Oesophageal cancer (Lancet seminar)

Opioid initiation timing and palliative care referrals in advanced cancer: retrospective study

The optimal timing of breast cancer surgery after COVID-19 infection: an observational study

Osimerinib haematological toxicities in non-small cell lung cancer: a randomised controlled trials meta-analysis

Paediatric relapsed acute leukaemia: curative intent chemotherapy improves quality of life

Pain management effectiveness in advanced cancer: palliative care unit inpatient study

Preoperative chemoradiotherapy for resectable gastric cancer

RNA-loaded nanoparticles for the treatment of hematological cancers

Thirty-day mortality in hospitalised patients with lung cancer: incidence and predictors

What is known about the role of clinical ethics services in cancer care? A systematic/narrative literature review

Sources

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Nov); American Journal of Surgery, The (Nov); BMC Cancer (Nov); BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Nov-Dec); Breast, The (Dec); JAMA (Dec); Lancet, The (Nov); NEJM (Nov)

November 2024

Belzutifan for treating tumours associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease (new NICE guideline TA1011)

Cancer patients have a reduced likelihood of dying in hospital with advance care planning in primary health care and a summarizing palliative plan

Compassionate presence in seriously ill cancer patients

Early palliative care versus usual haematological care in multiple myeloma

Gabapentinoids for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

Hairy-cell leukemia (NEJM review)

Implants versus autologous tissue flaps for breast reconstruction following mastectomy (new Cochrane intervention review)

Medical cannabis for refractory cancer-related pain in a specialised clinical service

Medical oncologist stereotypes among medical students, residents and physicians

Nonpharmacological intervention for delirium in patients with cancer: a scoping review

Nutritional status and primary tumour site in incurable cancer

Pediatric oncology hospice: a comprehensive review

Prioritising primary care patients with unexpected weight loss for cancer investigation (BMJ update)

Prostate cancer: unmet supportive and palliative care needs

Quizartinib for induction, consolidation and maintenance treatment of newly diagnosed FLT3-ITD-positive acute myeloid leukaemia (new NICE guideline TA1013)

Reductions in recurrence in women with early breast cancer entering clinical trials 1990-2009

Renal cell carcinoma (JAMA review)

Rucaparib for maintenance treatment of relapsed platinum-sensitive ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancer (new NICE guideline TA1007)

Skeletal muscle mass recovery after oesophagectomy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in oesophageal cancer

Trifluridine–tipiracil with bevacizumab for treating metastatic colorectal cancer after 2 systemic treatments (new NICE guideline TA1008)

Zanubrutinib for treating marginal zone lymphoma after anti-CD20-based treatment (new NICE guideline TA1001)

Sources

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Dec); BMJ, The Oct); BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Sep); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); JAMA (Aug); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Nov); Lancet, The (Oct); NEJM (Oct); NICE website (Sep-Oct); Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care (Sep)

September 2024

Cancer cytogenetics in a genomics world: wedding the old with the new

Cardiovascular training versus resistance training for fatigue in people with cancer (new Cochrane intervention review)

Causal attribution of human papillomavirus genotypes to invasive cervical cancer worldwide: a systematic analysis of the global literature

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (Lancet seminar review)

Colorectal cancer (Lancet seminar review)

COVID-19 among lung cancer patients: data from a real-life prospective French multicentric study

Different pathways to lung cancer diagnosis in a real-life setting

Endometriosis typology and ovarian cancer risk

Immune checkpoint inhibitors plus platinum‐based chemotherapy compared to platinum‐based chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for first‐line treatment of older people with advanced non‐small cell lung cancer (new Cochrane intervention review)

Immunotherapies for locally aggressive cancers

New promises and challenges in the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer

Prostate cancer incidence and mortality in Europe and implications for screening activities: population based study

Prostate cancer: unmet supportive and palliative care needs: national survey of patients and family carers

Renal cell carcinoma (Lancet seminar review)

A scoping review of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities in the outcomes of older adults with cancer

Shifting views on cancer pain management: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Tamoxifen for adults with hepatocellular carcinoma (new Cochrane intervention review)

Tisotumab vedotin as second- or third-line therapy for recurrent cervical cancer

Trends in spinal cancers: primary and metastatic. An Irish epidemiological perspective

Urethral cancer: a comprehensive review endorsed by the Global Society of Rare Genitourinary Tumours

Use of goals in cancer pain management: a systematic review

Sources

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Jul); BJU International (Aug); Blood Reviews (Jul); BMJ, The (Sep); BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Aug); Cochrane Library (Aug-Sep); JAMA (Jul); Journal of Orthopaedics (Aug); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Sep); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Jun); Lancet, The (Jul-Aug); NEJM (Jul); Respiratory Medicine and Research (Nov)

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