Publications by authors named "Anny Godin"
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- Long-term survival rates for esophageal cancer patients after esophagectomy are low, with a 15-year overall survival rate of just 25.2% and various factors influencing outcomes, both unmodifiable (like age and sex) and modifiable (like treatment choices).
- A study analyzed data on 870 patients who underwent surgery between 2000 and 2010, revealing that better care and adherence to treatment guidelines can significantly improve survival probabilities.
- Notably, once a patient survives 5 years post-surgery, the likelihood of recurrence becomes very rare, indicating that prolonged follow-up and specialized care are crucial for better outcomes.
Thoracic surgeons currently have multiple options and strategies to guide treatment in esophageal palliative and emergency conditions. To guide the selection of an individualized palliative approach, physicians, including thoracic surgeons, must take into consideration many factors including prognosis, performance status and comorbidities of patients. For dysphagia more specifically, esophageal stent placement is the most widely used intervention for rapidly relieving dysphagia in inoperable esophageal cancer patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndosonography-Guided Biopsy as a First Test in the Diagnosis of Lymphoma.
Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
August 2022
To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) and Endoscopic Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration (EUS-FNA) in the diagnosis of lymphoma. A retrospective analysis of patients with suspected mediastinal lymphoproliferative disorders who underwent EBUS-TBNA, EUS-FNA or combined procedures from 2009 to 2019 was conducted using a prospectively maintained interventional thoracic endoscopy database. Demographic data, imaging, needle size, surgical biopsy, complications rate and pathology reports were reviewed.
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- There has been a significant increase in obesity worldwide, but its effects on forensic practices are not well studied.
- A review of 582 autopsy cases in Quebec showed that the manner of death varied by BMI, with underweight individuals often dying of natural causes, while normal weight to obese individuals more frequently died from accidents.
- The study also highlighted an under-representation of overweight victims in forensic cases, indicating a potential bias in autopsy referrals, and emphasized the need for forensic teams to consider unnatural causes of death in obese individuals, rather than assuming they are solely due to natural health issues.