Publications by authors named "Zaid Soomro"
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- - A survey was conducted among 65 neuro-oncology providers across the USA to understand their views on patients accessing electronic records online.
- - 58% of providers reported frequent patient inquiries about notes and findings outside of office visits, while a majority (54%) believed not all lab results should be released automatically.
- - 97% of providers expressed concerns that patients might experience significant distress from viewing test results before their appointments, supporting their cautious stance on immediate result accessibility.
Background: Reports suggest that phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway alterations confer increased risk of progression and poor prognosis in oligodendroglioma, IDH-mutant, and 1p/19q-codeleted molecular oligodendrogliomas (mODG). However, factors that affect prognosis in mODG have not been thoroughly studied. In addition, the benefits of adjuvant radiation and temozolomide (TMZ) in mODGs remain to be determined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of brain metastases (BMs) in breast cancer (BC) patients remains a challenging complication. Current clinical practice guidelines recommend local treatment of BMs without changing systemic therapy (CST) in patients with stable extracranial disease. We retrospectively investigated the impact of CST (when applicable as per treating physician's discretion) following the diagnosis and management of oligometastatic (1-3) BMs in patients without extracranial metastases on the progression-free survival time (PFS), and overall survival (OS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParaneoplastic syndromes can commonly occur due to lung cancer, especially small cell lung cancer. Frequently paraneoplastic syndromes can precede the diagnosis of the neoplasm or present with limited stage disease. However, these syndromes can also occur at the time of recurrence or metastasis of disease.
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