February 2020
Patient Care

Wound-healing complications are common after surgical resection for soft tissue sarcoma. Intraoperative fluorescence angiography assesses blood flow and tissue perfusion, allowing for the surgical removal of nonviable tissue.

Specialists employ lutetium Lu 177 dotatate, a peptide receptor radionuclide therapy also called PRRT, to treat neuroendocrine tumors. Dotatate binds to cancer cell receptors and lutetium radiates the cells, killing them.
Research

In a retrospective review, researchers demonstrated that cytology analysis of pancreatic samples collected by endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) can detect extravascular migratory metastases often missed by cross-sectional imaging.

Stomach cancer that develops in people younger than 60 years often grows and spreads more quickly, has a worse prognosis, and is more resistant to traditional chemotherapy treatments.

Researchers identified and validated a panel of DNA methylation markers that can detect advanced neoplasia and help determine which cysts require surgery.

Researchers can now distinguish between two pathways where lung adenocarcinoma can develop, increasing their ability to predict which patients are likely to benefit from a particular treatment.

Researchers assessed the timeline, location and patterns of recurrence in patients who achieved remission after radiofrequency ablation in a multicenter cohort study.

Research supports that colorectal cancer outcomes may improve when immune-regulatory protein in cancer cells is genetically altered to make the cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy.
Education

April 16-18, 2020, in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Topics include updates in chest cancer diagnosis and systemic and local treatments and outcomes, including targeted therapy and immunotherapies.

July 30-Aug. 1, 2020, in Fernandina Beach, Fla.
This comprehensive review focuses on new clinical and research advancements and developments over the preceding year to provide up-to-date, practical information with immediate clinical application.

July 18, 2020, in Bloomington, Minn.
This program provides an overview of the most recent advances in the treatment of various oncologic malignancies, based on abstracts presented at the June 2020 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
In the Video Center

Pulmonologist Karen L. Swanson, D.O., shares the benefits of robotic bronchoscopy and looks ahead to what implementation of this technology means for patients with lung cancer.
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