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Disparities in the Use of Neoadjuvant Therapy for Resectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Jordan M. Cloyd, Chengli Shen, Heena Santry, John Bridges, Mary Dillhoff, Aslam Ejaz, Timothy M. Pawlik, and Allan Tsung

,500 Commission on Cancer–accredited facilities. Jointly sponsored by the American College of Surgeons and American Cancer Society, it currently captures more than 70% of newly diagnosed cancers within the United States. Relevant patient characteristics, tumor

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Pancreatitis and Hyperlipasemia in the Setting of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy

Matthew J. Townsend, Mofei Liu, Anita Giobbie-Hurder, Jordan S. Sack, Nicole R. LeBoeuf, F. Stephen Hodi, Julia McNabb-Baltar, and Shilpa Grover

≥2 of 3 criteria were met: (1) abdominal pain consistent with AP, (2) serum lipase ≥3 times the upper limit of normal (ULN), and (3) characteristic imaging findings. 11 Serum lipase, not amylase, was our primary laboratory marker, given its greater

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Effectiveness and Safety of Extended Treatment Apixaban Versus Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin in Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism

Alexander T. Cohen, Amol D. Dhamane, Xuejun Liu, Risho Singh, Stella Han, Robert Stellhorn, Jane Wang, and Xuemei Luo

anticoagulant. Study Outcomes Patient demographics (age, sex, geographic region), clinical characteristics (baseline comorbidities, medications), and VTE-related characteristics were evaluated during the baseline period. Cancer-related clinical

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National Quality Measure Compliance for Palliative Bone Radiation Among Patients With Metastatic Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Stephen R. Grant, Benjamin D. Smith, Lauren E. Colbert, Qunyh-Nhu Nguyen, James B. Yu, Steven H. Lin, and Aileen B. Chen

(1) assess the frequency of quality measure–concordant radiation for bone metastases as per NQF 1822; (2) describe variation in compliance by tumor, patient, and treatment characteristics; and (3) explore and consider the value, shortcomings, and

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The Impact of Adjuvant Chemotherapy on the Long-Term Prognosis of Breast Malignant Phyllodes Tumors: A Propensity Score–Matched Study

Zilin Zhuang, Ailifeire Yilihamu, Zhihua Li, Rong Lei, Xun Li, Mengjia Han, Wei Wei, Guangxin Li, Zhen Ma, Yulu Zhang, Hui Hu, Xiaoyun Xiao, and Yan Nie

95% confidence interval. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to mitigate selection bias and create cohorts with balanced baseline characteristics, as detailed in the Supplementary Materials , available online with this article. Propensity

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Small Renal Masses With Tumor Size 0 to 2 cm: A SEER-Based Study and Validation of NCCN Guidelines

Angela Pecoraro, Giuseppe Rosiello, Stefano Luzzago, Marina Deuker, Franciska Stolzenbach, Zhe Tian, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Fred Saad, Alberto Briganti, Anil Kapoor, Cristian Fiori, Francesco Porpiglia, and Pierre I. Karakiewicz

data can provide further detail regarding the distribution of patient and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) characteristics within this special patient group. Based on these considerations, we reexamined patients with RCC with T1a 0- to 2-cm renal tumors to

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Bone Metastases, Skeletal-Related Events, and Survival in Patients With Metastatic Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

Angel Qin, Songzhu Zhao, Abdul Miah, Lai Wei, Sandipkumar Patel, Andrew Johns, Madison Grogan, Erin M. Bertino, Kai He, Peter G. Shields, Gregory P. Kalemkerian, Shirish M. Gadgeel, Nithya Ramnath, Bryan J. Schneider, Khaled A. Hassan, Nicholas Szerlip, Zoey Chopra, Sara Journey, Jessica Waninger, Daniel Spakowicz, David P. Carbone, Carolyn J. Presley, Gregory A. Otterson, Michael D. Green, and Dwight H. Owen

approved by the Institutional Review Boards of both institutions. Patient demographics, disease characteristics (stage, histology, genomic alterations, metastatic burden [defined as the number of metastatic organ systems involved: 1, 2, ≥2]), treatment

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Screening Process Failures for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Amit G. Singal, Jorge A. Marrero, and Adam Yopp

characteristics could not be determined. Patients with Child-Pugh C cirrhosis and those with poor performance status were also excluded, because surveillance is not recommended in these patients. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at UT

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Factors Affecting Genetic Consultation in Adolescent and Young Adult Patients With Sarcoma

Grace E. McKay, Anna L. Zakas, Fauzia Osman, and Amanda Parkes

metastatic cancer at time of diagnosis, receipt of chemotherapy, and documentation of a genetics discussion with an oncology provider. Statistical Analysis Patient characteristics were recorded as percentages for categorical variables and as means and

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Impact of a Clinical Trial Initiative on Clinical Trial Enrollment in a Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Clinic

Lydia T. Madsen, Deborah A. Kuban, Seungtaek Choi, John W. Davis, Jeri Kim, Andrew K. Lee, Delora Domain, Larry Levy, Louis L. Pisters, Curtis A. Pettaway, John F. Ward, Christopher Logothetis, and Karen E. Hoffman

conducted using SAS 9.2 (Cary, North Carolina). Results Patient Characteristics A total of 1370 men with localized prostate cancer were seen at the MPCC between 2004 and 2008 and subsequently received treatment at MD Anderson. The median age at