Oncologists should recognise the need to move beyond the Eastern Cooperative Oncology
Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) score. ECOG PS is a longstanding and ubiquitous …

Patients with incurable, advanced abdominal or pelvic malignancy often present to acute
surgical departments with symptoms and signs of intestinal obstruction. It is rare for bowel …

Although a surgical approach is one of the key treatments for stages IA1-IIA2, results of the
Laparoscopic Approach to Cervical Cancer (LACC) published in 2018 radically changed the …

Objective: To compare overall (OS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS) in esophageal
adenocarcinoma patients with a pathologically complete response (pCR) following …

Background Low functional capacity, malnutrition, and anaemia are associated with an
increased risk of complications after surgery. These high-risk indicators can be improved …

Primary cutaneous CD4+ small/medium T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder (PCSMLPD) is a
recently recognized entity in the 2017 World Health Organization (WHO) classification. It …

OBJECTIVE Intraoperative MRI (iMRI) is used in the surgical treatment of glioblastoma, with
uncertain effects on outcomes. The authors evaluated the impact of iMRI on extent of …

ABSTRACT Study Objective To assess the feasibility and efficacy of minimally invasive
pelvic exenteration (MIPE) in a multi-institutional Italian case series of women with …

Simple Summary Immunotherapy leads to highly variable responses in lung cancer patients.
We assessed the value of a blood-based test to predict which patients would benefit from …

Background To investigate whether preoperative malnutrition in patients who underwent
curative pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) in pancreatic head cancer correlated with short …