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USPSTF Statement: begin screening for lung cancer at age 50 years instead of 55 years for patients at risk

10 Mar, 2021 | 08:28h | UTC

Recommendation Statement: Screening for Lung Cancer – US Preventive Services Task Force

Editorials: Broadened Eligibility for Lung Cancer Screening: Challenges and Uncertainty for Implementation and Equity – JAMA AND Expanded Access to Lung Cancer Screening—Implementing Wisely to Optimize Health – JAMA Network Open AND New USPSTF Guidelines for Lung Cancer Screening: Better but Not Enough – JAMA Surgery AND The 2021 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation on Lung Cancer Screening: The More Things Stay the Same… – JAMA Oncology

Study from 116 countries suggests surgery should be delayed for at least seven weeks following a COVID-19 diagnosis to reduce mortality risk

11 Mar, 2021 | 08:35h | UTC

Study from 116 countries suggests surgery should be delayed for at least seven weeks following a COVID-19 diagnosis to reduce mortality risk – Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

Original study: Timing of surgery following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: an international prospective cohort study – Anaesthesia

Commentary on Twitter

Reported by > 100 news organisations and > 200k Twitter impressions in just a few hours!

Here is the new @CovidSurg infographic! Time to establish timing of surgery guidelines?@aneelbhangu @dnepo @JoanaffSimoes #FOAMed

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— 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 (@Anaes_Journal) March 10, 2021

Lung transplants after Covid-19 raise difficult issues

5 Mar, 2021 | 08:36h | UTC

Lung transplants after Covid-19 raise difficult issues – STAT

Lung and thymic carcinoids: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

25 Jan, 2021 | 01:11h | UTC

Lung and thymic carcinoids: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up – Annals of Oncology

Postdischarge virtual visits for low-risk surgeries: A randomized noninferiority clinical trial

17 Jan, 2021 | 21:57h | UTC

Postdischarge Virtual Visits for Low-risk Surgeries: A Randomized Noninferiority Clinical Trial – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Surgical Centers Warm Up to Video Chats, Texts for Patient Follow-Up – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Systematic review: Immunotherapy vs. chemotherapy for people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who have not been previously treated

14 Jan, 2021 | 01:30h | UTC

Single or combined immune checkpoint inhibitors compared to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer – Cochrane Library

Summary: Immunotherapy versus chemotherapy for people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who have not been not previously been treated – Cochrane Library

#Immunotherapy vs #chemotherapy for people with advanced non‐small cell #lungcancer who have not been not previously been treated https://t.co/RJlDp1SHTc New @CochraneLibrary systematic review includes 7 studies with 5893 participants.

— The Cochrane Library (@CochraneLibrary) December 21, 2020

Meta-analysis: Lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography reduces lung cancer–specific mortality, albeit with a tradeoff of likely overdiagnosis

16 Dec, 2020 | 10:08h | UTC

Cancer-Specific Mortality, All-Cause Mortality, and Overdiagnosis in Lung Cancer Screening Trials: A Meta-Analysis – Annals of Family Medicine

Report: Lung transplantation for 3 patients with severe COVID-19

16 Dec, 2020 | 09:34h | UTC

Lung transplantation for patients with severe COVID-19 – Science Translational Medicine

Commentaries: COVID-19 can damage lungs so badly that ‘only hope’ is transplant – MedicalXpress

Commentary on Twitter

Case reports from 3 patients with severe #COVID19 who received lung transplants show the disease can cause extensive lung damage similar to that seen in pulmonary #fibrosis, and hints transplantation may be a viable treatment. @NUFeinbergMed @ScienceTM https://t.co/wXi0tx8gFg pic.twitter.com/vyerJLlJxi

— Science Magazine (@ScienceMagazine) November 30, 2020