Delay in Breast Cancer Treatments During the First COVID-19 Lockdown. A Multicentric Analysis of 432 Patients.

Background/aim: Extraordinary restrictions aimed to limit Sars-CoV-2 spreading; they imposed a total reorganization of the health-system. Oncological treatments experienced a significant slowdown. The aim of our multicentric retrospective study was to evaluate screening suspension and surgical treatment delay during COVID-19 and the impact on breast cancer presentation.

Exploratory evaluation of an obese population seeking bariatric surgery in an Italian public service.

Obesity is a difficult to treat multi-problematic disease. Bariatric surgery (BS) has been regarded as the most effective therapeutic option, however the outcomes strongly depend on baseline conditions and further behavioural modifications. Our aim was to assess the characteristics of severely obese patients seeking BS in a Public Health Service in Italy.

[Colorectal cancer: 74 patients treated by laparoscopic resection with a mean follow-up of 5 years].

Objective: The aims of this study were to analyse the results and long term outcome in a prospective non randomised trial of 74 patients treated by laparoscopic colo-rectal resection for cancer, and to determine wether survival and recurrence are or are not compromised by an initial laparoscopic approach.

Patients And Methods: Seventy-four patients with colo-rectal carcinoma were included in a prospective trial and treated by laparoscopic resection. All patients were reviewed at 1, 3, and 6 months interval.

Laparoscopic versus open surgery for colorectal carcinoma: a prospective clinical trial involving 157 cases with a mean follow-up of 5 years.

The role of laparoscopic resection in the management of colorectal cancer is still unclear. It has been shown that laparoscopic colectomies can be accomplished with acceptable morbidity. Major concerns are port-site recurrences and neoplastic dissemination.

Effect of TT virus infection on hepatocellular carcinoma development: results of a Euro-Asian survey.

A small percentage of persons with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) lack identifiable causes of liver pathology. The single-stranded DNA virus, TT virus (TTV), has been found in persons with acute and chronic liver injury. Nested polymerase chain reaction was used to search for both TTV and parvoviruses in 293 HCC samples from Asia and Europe.