Radioiodine for Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer: Yea or Nay?
(MedPage Today) -- In patients with low-risk thyroid cancer undergoing thyroidectomy, a strategy omitting radioiodine was noninferior to an ablation strategy using radioiodine when it came to the occurrence of certain events at 3 years, a phase... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 9, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Is ctDNA Useful for Surveillance in Resected CRC?
(MedPage Today) -- Serial analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) fared no better than standard surveillance strategies for patients with resected colorectal cancer (CRC) in a small, single-center study.
In the retrospective analysis of nearly... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 8, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Hopes Dashed for Novel Osteoarthritis Treatment
(MedPage Today) -- A promising therapy aimed at halting and even reversing the pathology underlying osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee failed to show any benefit in a randomized trial.
Neither clinical nor radiographic outcomes differed between patients... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 8, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Brain Changes Seen After Mild COVID Infection
(MedPage Today) -- Tissue damage and shrinkage in brain areas related to smell were seen months after people had mild SARS-CoV-2 infection, longitudinal data from the U.K. Biobank showed.
Compared with controls, people who had mild COVID demonstrated... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 7, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
For Stable Chest Pain, CT Stands Up to Invasive Coronary Angiography
(MedPage Today) -- For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) for downstream cardiovascular... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 4, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Lower Neck-Sparing RT Succeeds in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
(MedPage Today) -- Use of elective ipsilateral upper-neck irradiation (UNI) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma provided similar regional control as whole-neck irradiation (WNI), and resulted in less late toxicity, according to Chinese researchers... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 2, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Heart Failure Patients Still Undertested for CAD
(MedPage Today) -- People with new-onset heart failure (HF) continued to lack adequate testing for coronary artery disease (CAD), a common and treatable cause of HF, and nationwide variations in testing rates suggested room for quality improvement... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - February 28, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Novel Therapies Active in Head and Neck Cancers
(MedPage Today) -- Three-fourths of patients with advanced non-melanoma skin cancer of the head and neck achieved disease control with the oncolytic virus RP1 plus the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo), a preliminary clinical trial showed.
The... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - February 28, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Study: Breast Cancer Is Still Being Overdiagnosed
(MedPage Today) -- About one in seven cases of screen-detected breast cancer are overdiagnosed, according to a modeling study based on data from Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) centers.
In a program of biennial screening for women... (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - February 28, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Thrombolysis Works Early Enough for Lacunar Strokes
(MedPage Today) -- Findings from post hoc analysis of WAKE-UP trial could complicate ED imaging strategy (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 25, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Aggressive Tx in Oligometastatic NSCLC Tied to Improved OS
(MedPage Today) -- Histology, intrathoracic disease burden, and bone metastases may predict outcomes (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - March 13, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Drug-Coated Balloons Superior After 5 Years in PAD
(MedPage Today) -- Paclitaxel balloon found superior in keeping leg arteries open compared with plain angioplasty (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - February 2, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Revascularization for Silent Ischemia Linked to Better Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- Registry suggests much lower MI risk for asymptomatic stable disease (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - January 17, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
iMedicalApps: Rads Consult Web App Review
(MedPage Today) -- An easy way to access the American College of Radiology guidelines (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - January 11, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
ASH Poster Rounds: Failed Drug Resurrected in DLBCL
(MedPage Today) -- Also: radiation as bridge to CAR T-cell therapy; PD-1 inhibitors in DLBCL (Source: MedPage Today Radiology)
Source: MedPage Today Radiology - December 5, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
