Surrogate Markers and the Association of Low-Dose CT Lung Cancer Screening With Mortality.

This study examines the reliability of predictive markers of CT screening for lung cancer and its association with patient outcomes, including mortality.

Association of Hospital Costs With Complications Following Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Adenocarcinoma.

Importance: Postoperative complications are associated with increased hospital costs following major surgery, but the mechanism by which they increase cost and the categories of care that drive this increase are poorly described.

Objective: To describe the association of postoperative complications with hospital costs following total gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected gastric cancer surgery database at a single National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center included all patients undergoing curative-intent total gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma between January 2009 and December 2012 and was conducted in 2015 and 2016.

Overspending driven by oversized single dose vials of cancer drugs.

call for an end to contradictory regulatory standards in the US that allow drug manufacturers to boost profits by producing single dose vials containing quantities that increase leftover drug

Comparing Open Radical Cystectomy and Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Background: Open radical cystectomy (ORC) and urinary diversion in patients with bladder cancer (BCa) are associated with significant perioperative complication risk.

Objective: To compare perioperative complications between robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) and ORC techniques.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A prospective randomized controlled trial was conducted during 2010 and 2013 in BCa patients scheduled for definitive treatment by radical cystectomy (RC), pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND), and urinary diversion.