Publications by authors named "R Filiberti"
The descriptive epidemiology of melanoma in Italy has changed - for the better.
Ital J Dermatol Venerol
December 2023
A recent research project using data from a total of 40 cancer registries has provided new epidemiologic insights into the results of efforts for melanoma control in Italy between the 1990s and the last decade. In this article, the authors present a summary and a commentary of their findings. Incidence increased significantly throughout the study period in both sexes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Survival rates for metastatic melanoma (MM) patients have improved in recent years, leading to major expenses and health resource use. We conducted a non-concurrent prospective study to describe the burden of hospitalization in a real-world setting for patients with MM.
Methods: Patients were tracked throughout all hospital stays in 2004-2019 by means of hospital discharges.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate New York Heart Association (NYHA) class and systolic pulmonary artery pressure (sPAP) as survival predictors in major interstitial lung diseases (ILD) including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) and hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) and in other ILD like granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA).
Patients And Methods: We analyzed survival, NYHA class, sPAP, and Octreoscan uptake index (UI) in 104 ILD patients (59 IPF, 19 NSIP, 10 HP and 16 GPA; median age 60.5 years) all referred to a single centre.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates survival trends in vulvar squamous cell carcinoma (VSCC) in Italy from 1990 to 2015, revealing stagnation in survival rates.
- Analysis of data from 38 cancer registries indicated a decrease in 1-year and 2-year net survival rates, while 5-year conditional survival showed a slight increase but was not statistically significant.
- The findings suggest that current treatment and control strategies for VSCC need to be re-evaluated in Italy and worldwide due to the lack of improvement in survival outcomes.
Background And Aim: Surgical gastrojejunostomy (GJJ) and endoscopic stenting (ES) are the two most available treatments for palliation of malignant gastric obstruction (MGOO). The aim of this study is to compare these two techniques regarding efficacy, safety, time of hospitalization and survival.
Methods: We performed a literature search from January 2010 to September 2020 to identify available randomized controlled studies and observational studies that compared ES and GJJ for the treatment of MGOO.