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Clinical practice LCS program finds more disease than NLST

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Over a five-year period, a clinical practice lung cancer screening program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, found more disease than did the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), researchers have reported. It also found more stage IV disease, wrote a team led by Kyle Lafata, PhD. versus 2.4%.

Disease 77
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Lung cancer incidence continues to increase among younger women

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"[We] found that the higher lung cancer incidence in women than in men has not only continued in individuals younger than 50 years but also now extends to middle-aged adults as younger women with a high risk of the disease enter older age," the group reported. "[But] and female to male rate disease incidence ratios using the Tiwari method.

Disease 97
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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis

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Most common organism is Staph Aureus (36-67% of cases) ( Boody 2015 ). The degree of elevation does not predict disease severity. Other pathogens include: E. ESR and CRP are sensitive, yet not specific.

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CT-FFR shows how smoking affects heart volume-to-myocardial mass ratio

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We found that] current and former smoking were independently associated with lower [V/M] in participants with coronary artery disease," the group noted. But the effect smoking has on volume-to-myocardial mass ratio has not been thoroughly established.

Disease 87
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Weekend admission for TIPS procedure tied to higher mortality risk

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This relieves the pressure of blood flowing through the diseased liver and can help stop bleeding and fluid backup. The study included data collected between 2015 and 2020 from 6,658 patients who underwent TIPS procedures. TIPS is an interventional radiological procedure used to bypass the portal vein system.

Hospital 104
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PET tracer shows promise in prostate cancer patients

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Moreover, the approach could help detect disease that other effective prostate cancer PET radiotracers may miss, said Heying Duan, MD, a nuclear medicine research scientist at Stanford University, during a November 26 scientific session. Patients were eligible if they were older than 18 and had rising blood levels of PSA ( ≥ 0.2

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REBEL Core Cast 85.0 – Superficial Venous Thrombosis

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Cosmi 2015 ) Risk factors of complications of SVT (such as propagation of clot into deep veins) include male gender, history of VTE, cancer, SVT in a non-varicose vein, large SVT >5 cm, or SVT involving the sapheno-femoral junction (SFJ). Risk factors for the development of SVT are similar to those of VTE.

Disease 52