Impact of Surveillance Imaging in Patients With HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Carcinoma Treated With Definitive Radiation and Chemotherapy.

Objectives: Surveillance imaging for HPV-associated oropharyngeal carcinomas (OPCs) differs among physicians and institutions. Surveillance imaging can detect disease progression earlier, but can also contribute to anxiety and cost, without proven survival benefits. We sought to determine practice patterns of surveillance imaging and the number of surveillance scans needed to detect one recurrence in patients with HPV-associated OPCs.

Nomogram to predict risk of early mortality following definitive or adjuvant radiation and systemic therapy for head and neck cancer.

Purpose/objectives: We sought to create nomograms to predict individual risk of early mortality, which can identify patients who require interventions to prevent early death.

Methods: We included patients in the National Cancer Database with non-metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck who received radiation and systemic therapy between 2004 and 2017 in the definitive or adjuvant setting. Early mortality was defined as any death less than 90 days after starting radiation.

Higher Rates of Inadequate Adjuvant Radiation Dose Among Older Adults with Head and Neck Cancer.

Objective: To determine the rate of inadequate radiotherapy and identify risk factors associated with inadequate adjuvant radiotherapy for head and neck cancer among older adults.

Methods: A retrospective review of the National Cancer Database (NCDB) was performed to identify patients diagnosed with squamous cell cancer of the head and neck between 2004 and 2017. Patients with a single malignancy, negative surgical margins, no extranodal extension, and receipt of adjuvant radiation without systemic therapy were included in the study cohort.

System Accuracy and Interference Evaluation of a New Glucose Dehydrogenase-Based Blood Glucose Meter for Patient Self-Testing.

New European medical device regulations require the performance of postmarketing surveillance evaluations for blood glucose meters (BGMs). We conducted an ISO15197:2015-conform system performance evaluation with the approved glucose dehydrogenase (GDH)-based Wellion NEWTON BGM. One hundred subjects were enrolled into the study (44 female, 56 male, 43 healthy subjects, 23 type 1 diabetes, 34 type 2 diabetes, age: 53.

Differential use of postoperative psychosocial and physical services among older adults with head and neck cancer.

Introduction: Older adults undergoing head and neck cancer (HNC) surgery often have significant functional and mental health impairments. We examined use of postoperative physical, nutritional, and psychosocial services among a cohort of older adults with HNC comanaged by geriatricians and surgeons.

Materials And Methods: Our sample consisted of older adults who were referred to the Geriatrics Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center between 2015 and 2019 and took a geriatric assessment (GA) prior to undergoing HNC surgery.