Gastrointestinal malignancies and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence-based triage to surgery

SC Fligor, S Wang, BG Allar, ST Tsikis, AS Ore… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread cancelation of electively
scheduled surgeries, including for colorectal, pancreatic, and gastric cancer. The American …

Neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: recent advances and ongoing challenges

A Body, H Prenen, M Lam, A Davies… - Clinical colorectal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Locally advanced rectal cancer has a rising global incidence. Over the last 4 decades,
advances first in surgery and later in radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy have improved …

The optimal timing for the interval to surgery after short course preoperative radiotherapy (5× 5 Gy) in rectal cancer-are we too eager for surgery?

R Glynne-Jones, M Hall, ID Nagtegaal - Cancer Treatment Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The improved overall survival (OS) after short course preoperative radiotherapy
(SCPRT) using 5× 5 Gy reported in the early rectal cancer trials could not be replicated in …

Data resource profile: the COloRECTal cancer data repository (CORECT-R)

A Downing, P Hall, R Birch, E Lemmon… - International Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Advance Access Publication Date: 12 July 2021 Data Resource Profile potentially beyond,
the UK Colorectal Cancer Intelligence Hub aims to provide an annually updated and richer …

[HTML][HTML] What is the optimal timing of surgery after short-course radiotherapy for rectal cancer?

SM Donnelly, J Wyatt, SG Powell, N Jones, K Altaf… - Surgical Oncology, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Short-course neoadjuvant radiotherapy is a valuable tool in managing rectal
cancers and has improved local recurrence rates. However, limited and conflicting data has …

Real world data–does it cut the mustard or should we take it with a pinch of salt?

R Muirhead, A Aggarwal - Clinical Oncology, 2023 - clinicaloncologyonline.net
Real world data (RWD) is population-or institutionlevel data routinely collected either
prospectively or retrospectively from non-randomised observational sources. Examples of …

Radiotherapy management of rectal cancer in the backdrop of the COVID pandemic

S Lewis, K Talapatra - Cancer Reports, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background COVID‐19 outbreak was declared as a pandemic by the World Health
Organization in March 2020. Over the last 3 months, the pandemic has challenged the …

Management of Non Metastatic Colo-Rectal Cancers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

F Kouhen, M Chihabeddine, M Afif… - Health …, 2020 - publishing.universitypress.ma
Recently, an ongoing outbreak of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus, known as
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has spread throughout …

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PH COVID - International Journal of Epidemiology, 2024 - discovery.dundee.ac.uk
To date, there have been> 750 million reported cases of COVID-19 globally since the
pandemic began in early 2020. 1 In the UK, there have been> 1 million patients hospitalized …