Publications by authors named "L Caitlin Elmore"
Background: Although high treatment costs of breast cancer care are well documented, the relationship between delayed/forgone (D/F) care and resource utilization among patients with breast cancer is unknown. This study sought to investigate the relationship between D/F care, resource use, and healthcare expenditures among patients with breast cancer.
Methods: Data on adult female patients with breast cancer were obtained from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to assess resource utilization and expenditures in the United States from 2007 to 2017.
Background: Collision tumors of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are thought to be uncommon, with those of the colon being rare with very few cases reported in current literature. There are three proposed theories regarding the etiology of collision tumors currently, including the "double primaries", the "biclonal malignant transformation", and the "tumor-to-tumor carcinogenesis" theories. Prognosis of collision tumors remains unclear.
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- Spontaneous splenic rupture is a rare condition usually related to diseases like infectious mononucleosis caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, and it typically lacks an identifiable cause.* -
- The article discusses a case of a 73-year-old woman who experienced sudden left-sided flank pain, leading to the discovery of a splenic injury requiring emergency surgery and splenectomy.* -
- Early diagnosis and treatment of spontaneous splenic rupture are crucial, as delays can increase the risk of serious complications, and while some stable patients might be treated non-operatively, long-term outcomes remain uncertain.*
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- * Among 208 patients reviewed, those with two or more close/positive margins had a significantly higher mastectomy rate (20%) compared to those with one close/positive margin (7%).
- * The findings suggest that while close/positive margins increase the likelihood of needing a mastectomy, having opposing close margins does not affect this rate and most were managed successfully with re-excision.
Introduction: Quality of surgical care is understudied for lobular inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), which is less common, more chemotherapy-resistant, and more mammographically occult than ductal IBC. We compared guideline-concordant surgery (modified radical mastectomy [MRM] without immediate reconstruction following chemotherapy) for lobular versus ductal IBC.
Methods: Female individuals with cT4dM0 lobular and ductal IBC were identified in the National Cancer Database (NCDB) from 2010-2019.