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Background: In the randomized Asian REGATTA trial, no survival benefit was shown for additional gastrectomy over chemotherapy alone in patients with advanced gastric cancer with a single incurable factor, thereby discouraging surgery for these patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate treatment strategies for patients with metastatic gastric cancer in daily practice in five European countries, along with relative survival in each country.
Methods: Nationwide population-based data from Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden were combined.
Background: The perception of colostomy-related problems and their impact on health-related quality of life (QoL) may differ between patients and healthcare professionals. The aim of this study was to investigate this using the Colostomy Impact Score (CIS) tool.
Methods: Healthcare professionals including consultant colorectal surgeons, stoma nurses, ward nurses, trainees and medical students were recruited.
Background: Laparoscopic surgery has been reported to reduce the formation of adhesions following colorectal surgery. The aim of this nationwide cohort study was to investigate the risk of surgery for adhesive small bowel obstruction (SBO) following open and laparoscopic rectal cancer resection.
Methods: Patients undergoing rectal cancer resection between 2005 and 2013 were identified in the Danish Colorectal Cancer Group database.
Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia type 3 should be considered as differential diagnosis in patients with suspected primary hyperparathyroidism and/or suspected multiple neoplasia syndrome, as correct diagnosis will spare the patients for going through multiple futile parathyroidectomies and for the worry of being diagnosed with a cancer susceptibility syndrome.
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