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Mar 23, 2024, 14:45
Article summaries by Erman Akkus: BMI and cancer prognosis and billiary tract cancer
Erman Akkus, Medical Oncology Fellow at Ankara University, shared a post on X/Twitter:
1. ”BMI, weight change, and cancer prognosis: a meta-analysis of 73 cohort studies ESMO Open.
Obesity vs. normal weight
- worse OS: breast cancer, glioblastoma;
- better OS: GI, lung and renal cancers;
Underweight vs. normal weight
- worse OS: breast, GI, lung, head and neck cancers
Weight loss vs. nonweight change
- worse OS: GI cancers
Keeping normal body weight before and after diagnosis of the cancer may be the best.”
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2. ”Biliary Tract Cancers: French National Clinical Practice Guideline.
- Localized disease: surgery and adjuvant capecitabine.
- No neoadjuvant treatment is validated to date.
- Advanced disease: Cisplatin-gemcitabine-durvalumab.
- Early biomarker testing.
- Second line: FOLFOX.”
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