Publications by authors named "Nguyen Thanh Sang"
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- - The study analyzed how changes in chemotherapy based on CA19-9 levels during neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) impact outcomes for patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
- - Results from 283 patients showed that those who received a chemotherapy change (particularly those who achieved the desired CA19-9 reduction) had significantly better overall survival compared to those who did not have a chemotherapy change.
- - The findings suggest that adjusting chemotherapy based on CA19-9 levels can enhance treatment outcomes for patients with resectable or borderline resectable PDAC, highlighting the importance of personalized treatment approaches.
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- New treatment strategies for unresectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (UR-M PDAC) are emerging, including the use of maintenance therapy with olaparib after chemotherapy, particularly for patients with BRCA mutations.
- A 47-year-old male patient diagnosed with PDAC and confirmed BRCA2 mutation underwent 16 weeks of triple chemotherapy, followed by 14 weeks of olaparib, leading to normalization of tumor markers and disappearance of liver metastases.
- Following successful chemotherapy, the patient was able to have laparoscopic surgery to remove the tumor, and he has remained cancer-free for 27 months post-surgery, highlighting the potential for long-term survival with this treatment approach.
Minimally invasive surgery is usually more beneficial than open surgeries in various fields of surgery. With the newly developed Single-Port (SP) robotic surgical system, even single-site surgery has become easier to access. We compared single-incision robotic cholecystectomy between the Si/Xi and SP systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThanks to the benefits of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in wireless communications, we evaluate a wireless sensor network deploying NOMA (WSN-NOMA), where the destination can receive two data symbols in a whole transmission process with two time slots. In this work, two relaying protocols, so-called time-switching-based relaying WSN-NOMA (TSR WSN-NOMA) and power-splitting-based relaying WSN-NOMA (PSR WSN-NOMA) are deployed to study energy-harvesting (EH). Regarding the system performance analysis, we obtain the closed-form expressions for the exact and approximate outage probability (OP) in both protocols, and the delay-limited throughput is also evaluated.
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