Effects of surgical approach on short- and long-term outcomes in early-stage rectal cancer: a multicenter, propensity score-weighted cohort study.

Background: Randomized controlled trials have been unable to demonstrate noninferiority of minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer. The aim of this study was to assess oncologic resection success, short- and long-term morbidity, and overall survival by operative approach in a homogenous early-stage rectal cancer cohort.

Methods: This is a multicenter, propensity score-weighted cohort study utilizing deidentified data from the National Cancer Database.

Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome Presenting as Non-Specific Colitis: A Medical Diagnosis with a Surgical Presentation.

A 20-year-old woman with previous COVID-19 diagnosis presented with abdominal pain and colitis on CT scan. She was admitted in septic shock, with etiology of colitis unclear. After resuscitation, antibiotics, and steroids, she clinically deteriorated.

Racial disparities in operative management of localized, non-functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in surgically fit patients.

Background: Guidelines recommend resection of non-functional neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas (NF-pNETs) that are ≥2 cm in size. We compared utilization of surgery based on race.

Methods: We identified non-Hispanic White and Black patients with localized NF-pNETs ≥2 cm and Charlson-Deyo score 0-1 in the NCDB (2004-2016).

Evaluating disparities in delivery of neoadjuvant guideline-based chemoradiation for rectal cancer: A multicenter, propensity score-weighted cohort study.

Background: Despite guideline recommendations, some patients still receive care inappropriate for their clinical stage of disease. Identification of factors that contribute to variation in guideline base care may help eradicate disparities in the treatment of early and locally advanced rectal cancer.

Methods: The American College of Surgeons National Cancer Database from 2010 to 2015 was analyzed with propensity score weighting to identify factors associated with delivery and omission of neoadjuvant guideline-based chemoradiation (GBC) for those with early and locally advanced rectal cancer.