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WCLC 2018: Success of combined screening and smoking cessation pilots

Written by Karen Ramirez | 17 Oct 2018

Professor Gail Darling (WCLC co-President, Toronto, Canada) discusses the success of combined screening and smoking cessation pilot in Ontario.

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WCLC 2018: Do we have a UK-wide screening programme that is ready to implement?

Written by Karen Ramirez | 17 Oct 2018

Dr Jesme Fox (Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, UK) and Professor David Baldwin (Nottingham, UK) detail current UK pilots and a screening protocol that is currently going through the NHS England… read more.

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WCLC 2018: NELSON – CT screening saves lives

Written by Karen Ramirez | 17 Oct 2018

A randomised, controlled screening trial for lung cancer involving almost 16,000 people in the Netherlands and Belgium found that CT screening produced a 26% reduction in lung cancer… read more.

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WCLC 2018: Highlights

Written by Karen Ramirez | 17 Oct 2018

The IASLC 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) was full of highlights, including 3 plenary abstracts being presented in the New England Journal of Medicine and involvement from… read more.

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DDW 2018: Quality of life for IBD patients

Written by Karen Ramirez | 2 Oct 2018

Inflammatory bowel disease can have a detrimental impact of health-related quality of life, and reducing the physical and psychological disease burden is an important therapeutic target. Patient-reported outcomes… read more.

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DDW 2018: Predicting who will get IBD

Written by Karen Ramirez | 2 Oct 2018

To have a chance of preventing IBD clinicians need to be able to predict who is at risk, based on sensitive and selective risk factors. In a translational… read more.

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DDW 2018: Choice in patient management

Written by Karen Ramirez | 2 Oct 2018

IBD specialists have more treatment options than ever before; yet the optimal use of many agents, old as well as new, remains to be defined. A plenary session… read more.

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DDW 2018: Treatment of perianal fistulising disease

Written by Karen Ramirez | 2 Oct 2018

Perianal fistulas remain a debilitating complication for CD patients, with high levels of morbidity and impact on quality of life. Several abstracts and posters at DDW 2018 addressed… read more.

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DDW 2018: IBD Study Updates

Written by Karen Ramirez | 2 Oct 2018

This article summarises some of the key study updates presented at DDW 2018.

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ASCO 2018: Synchronous primary lung cancers

Written by Karen Ramirez | 20 Aug 2018

Professor John Lafrate (Harvard Medical School, Boston) and Professor Frank Detterbeck (Yale School of Medicine, New Haven) spoke in a session looking at some of the difficulties with diagnosis and… read more.

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ASCO 2018: KEYNOTE-042 shows OS

Written by Karen Ramirez | 20 Aug 2018

First-line treatment with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab showed an overall survival benefit compared to platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and… read more.

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