Introduction: The standard of care for gastric cancer in the United States involves perioperative chemotherapy. While most post-therapy pathologic staging results are concordant (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Racial disparities in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) utilization across gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are not well characterized. We evaluated racial/ethnic disparities in the use of MIS approaches and associated outcomes.
Methods: We analyzed a cohort of patients with GI cancer in the National Cancer Database (2010-2020).
Ann Surg Oncol
December 2024
Background: Landscape fire-sourced (LFS) air pollution is an increasing public health concern in the context of climate change. However, little is known about the attributable global, regional, and national mortality burden related to LFS air pollution.
Methods: We calculated country-specific population-weighted average daily and annual LFS fine particulate matter (PM) and surface ozone (O) during 2000-19 from a validated dataset.