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401. Colorectal-Cancer-Liver-Metastases-Therapies Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2012 - Most colorectal cancers are adenocarcinomas, meaning that they are a cancer of the epithelium originating … Is extended hepatectomy for hepatobiliary malignancy justified? … Extended hepatectomy in patients with hepatobiliary malignancies with and without preoperative portal … HIF1A overexpression is associated with poor prognosis in a cohort of 731 colorectal cancers. … Recommendations for radioembolization of hepatic malignancies using Yttrium-90 microsphere brachytherapy

402. Colorectal-Cancer-Liver-Metastases-Therapies Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2012 - Most colorectal cancers are adenocarcinomas, meaning that they are a cancer of the epithelium originating … Is extended hepatectomy for hepatobiliary malignancy justified? … Extended hepatectomy in patients with hepatobiliary malignancies with and without preoperative portal … HIF1A overexpression is associated with poor prognosis in a cohort of 731 colorectal cancers. … Recommendations for radioembolization of hepatic malignancies using Yttrium-90 microsphere brachytherapy

403. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary46/skin-cancer-screening-2009
     February 15, 2009 - with whole-body examination by primary care clinicians or by self-examination accurately detect skin cancers … with whole-body examination by primary care clinicians or by self-examination accurately detect skin cancers … We used terms skin neoplasms, squamous cell neoplasms, basal cell neoplasms, melanoma , and mass screening … on case patients ( n = 650) in Berwick and colleagues' study 7 were obtained from the Connecticut Tumor … with whole-body examination by primary care clinicians or by self-examination accurately detect skin cancers

404. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - in women are cancers of the breast, the most common cancer diagnosed in women. 1 The annual incidence … compared to the total of screen-detected cancers plus interval cancers, but one may use a fixed interval … A recent analysis of data by tumor size, nodal status, and stage from the BCDDP, a U.S. screening project … patients in the two groups did not differ in number, size, or nodal status of their tumors. … , and varying biologic characteristics of breast tumors. 52 , 72 The Swedish overview, 40 HIP, 37

405. Localized Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care
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     June 08, 2018 - Also, brachytherapy alone is usually not used to treat tumors that extend outside the edges of the prostate … clinic or hospital over several weeks. 3DRT uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor … Advanced treatment machines then target the tumor as specifically as possible while trying to avoid hurting … the healthy cells around the cancer. … The proton radiation beam stops more suddenly than a photon beam after reaching the tumor.

406. Screening for Bladder Cancer: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2011 - The stages of bladder cancer include superficial (Ta or T1) and muscle-invasive tumors. … One fourth of all cases of bladder cancer and 20% to 40% of all invasive tumors have already metastasized … Treatment Once bladder cancer has been diagnosed, several fac- tors determine treatment, including tumor … grade, cancer stage (superficial vs. invasive), whether the tumor is recur- rent, the patient’s age … , tumor characteristics, and subsequent treatments.

407. Archived: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 15, 2012 - by PSA screening have a tumor that either will not progress or will progress so slowly that it would … On the basis of PSA level, Gleason score, and tumor stage, approximately 43% had low-risk tumors, 36% … had intermediate-risk tumors, and 21% had high-risk tumors. … The 10-year prostate cancer mortality rate for well- or moderately-differentiated tumors among men aged … The frequency of carcinoma and intraepithelial neoplasia of the prostate in young male patients.

408. Medical Therapies for Locally Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 01, 2025 - Recurrent cancer, metastatic cancer, early stage (T1aN0 and T1bN0), stage 4 cancer, GEJ cancer patients … stromal tumors (GIST), neuroendocrine tumors, gastric lymphoma, MALToma, other rare gastric cancers. … * OR carcinoma* OR malignan* OR neoplas* OR tumor* OR tumour*)):ab,ti,kw) 'cancer palliative therapy' … Project Timeline Optimal Medical Treatments for Non-Metastatic Gastric Cancers … https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/gastric-cancers/protocol  

409. PDI 12 Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection Rate (xls file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Cancer diagnosis codes ICD-9-CM Description ICD-10-CM Description 140.0 Malignant neoplasm of upper … organ sites C75.0 Malignant neoplasm of parathyroid gland 202.61 Malignant mast cell tumors, lymph … tumors, intrathoracic lymph nodes C75.2 Malignant neoplasm of craniopharyngeal duct 202.63 Malignant … mast cell tumors, lymph nodes of axilla and upper limb C75.4 Malignant neoplasm of carotid body 202.65 … Malignant mast cell tumors, lymph nodes of inguinal region and lower limb C75.5 Malignant neoplasm of

410. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2008 - e.g., Gleason score, tumor volume, screen vs. clinically detected tumors) affect the outcomes of interventions … How do tumor characteristics, e.g., Gleason score, tumor volume, screen vs. clinically detected tumors … Men with low-grade prostate cancers had a minimal risk of dying from prostate cancer (7 percent with … Low • The risk of overall or prostate cancer death over 10 years for PSA-detected prostate cancers according … High • Screening with PSA testing detects more prostate cancer and cancers of smaller volume, earlier

411. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2008 - e.g., Gleason score, tumor volume, screen vs. clinically detected tumors) affect the outcomes of interventions … How do tumor characteristics, e.g., Gleason score, tumor volume, screen vs. clinically detected tumors … Men with low-grade prostate cancers had a minimal risk of dying from prostate cancer (7 percent with … Low • The risk of overall or prostate cancer death over 10 years for PSA-detected prostate cancers according … High • Screening with PSA testing detects more prostate cancer and cancers of smaller volume, earlier

412. Data Points 16: Types of Prostate Radiation: Changes across time and geography in the use of prostate radiation technologies for newly diagnosed older cancer patients: 2006-2008 (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - outcomes, especially in higher risk tumors, although evidence is lacking.5 In 2000, Medicare began … that proportion had increased to 82 percent.9 Prior examinations of the same database have shown tumor … Higher doses of CRT are associ- ated with lower tumor recurrence rates. … tumors where the indications for IMRT are not very strong (i.e., where the risk of adjacent organ … Monitoring IMRT use should be a priority for these other cancers as well as for groups of prostate

413. SRDR - Systematic Review Data Repository |
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     January 01, 2014 - need colonoscopy following acute diverticulitis detected on computed tomography to exclude colorectal malignancy … What is the incidence of malignant and premalignant colon tumors found by colonoscopy, and what is the … incidence of colon cancer mortality among patients undergoing screening? … need colonoscopy following acute diverticulitis detected on computed tomography to exclude colorectal malignancy … Percentage 7.1 Deleted Successfully Deleted Successfully Outcome: Advanced Colonic Neoplasia

414. Epoetin and Darbepoetin for Managing Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment: Comparative Effectiveness Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 25, 2013 - Disposition of Comments Report Epoetin and Darbepoetin for Managing Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cancer … strategies and non-ESA strategies to manage anemia in patients undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation for malignancy … Trials varied according to duration, tumor types, cancer therapy, trial quality, iron supplementation … In 14 trials reporting the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT)-Fatigue subscale, the most

415. Archived: Risk Factors and Other Epidemiologic Considerations for Cervical Cancer Screening: A Narrative Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     October 15, 2011 - ICC up to age 30 years 47 ; however, there was still uncertainty about its effect on advanced-stage tumors … There was no difference in the aggressiveness of invasive cancers in older women. … Risk of cervical and other cancers after treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: retrospective … Surveillance of screening-detected cancers (colon and rectum, breast, and cervix) — United States, 2004 … Natural history of cervical neoplasia and risk of invasive cancer in women with cervical intraepithelial

416. Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 21, 2016 - tumors confined to the prostate (T1–T2) and tumors with extracapsular extension but without spread into … be influenced by factors such as patient age and health at the time of diagnosis, life expectancy, tumor … Physicians might take into consideration age, general health status, stage of tumor, PSA level, Gleason … treatment options based on the patient's age, health status, life expectancy, and tumor stage The … potential for tumor eradication with treatment Available evidence for the efficacy and effectiveness

417. Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2015 - PBT Tumor control and survival ��� ��� ��� Grade ≥2 late xerostomia* Significantly reduced incidence … , salivary gland dysfunction, swallowing dysfunction) ��� ��� ��� Effects of specific patient and tumor … needed to determine the comparative effectiveness of IMRT, 3DCRT, SBRT, and PBT: �– In achieving tumor … improving quality of life �– In understanding how outcomes are affected by the characteristics of the tumor … chemotherapy) �� An important area of investigation is the potential impact of human papillomavirus-positive tumors

418. Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2015 - PBT Tumor control and survival ��� ��� ��� Grade ≥2 late xerostomia* Significantly reduced incidence … , salivary gland dysfunction, swallowing dysfunction) ��� ��� ��� Effects of specific patient and tumor … needed to determine the comparative effectiveness of IMRT, 3DCRT, SBRT, and PBT: �– In achieving tumor … improving quality of life �– In understanding how outcomes are affected by the characteristics of the tumor … chemotherapy) �� An important area of investigation is the potential impact of human papillomavirus-positive tumors

419. Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 26, 2016 - Return to Table of Contents Introduction Skin cancer is among the most common cancers … , basal cell and squamous cell cancers) or melanoma skin cancer. … Although NMSC represents more than 97% of skin cancers, 1 melanoma skin cancer is the primary public … tumors larger than 4.00 mm. … rather than earlier detection of invasive tumors, in the absence of changes in mortality. 30 , 31

420. 04-E029-1 Summary (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2011 - The cancer is usually localized, and most tumors have low histological grades and low Gleason scores. … low-risk tumors. … cancer patients with other primary tumors were consistently less likely to die of prostate cancer compared … Tumor grade Three studies reported information on prostate cancer mortality stratified by tumor grade … The two studies reporting on T1/T2 tumors both demonstrated a decrease of T1a/T1b tumors and T2a tumors