Marcelo Jimenez

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Robotic Enucleation of Giant Esophageal Leiomyoma

March 19, 2021 | Teresa Gomez-Hernandez…

The authors present the clinical case of a 37-year-old man with a medical history of diabetes mellitus type I and acute biliary pancreatitis who consulted for dysphagia and abdominal pain. Chest radiography showed a mass...

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The 5000% case: a glimpse into the financial issue of lung cancer treatment

May 5, 2016 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

This is an outstanding and provocative editorial comment concerning treatment costs of lung cancer based on an article published in the last issue of the European Respiratory Journal. It reveals...

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Use of Positron Emission Tomography to Detect Recurrence and Associations With Survival in Patients With Lung and Esophageal Cancers

February 24, 2016 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Routine use of PET scans to follow up asymptomatic patients do not affect survival, according to this retrospective analysis of a cohort of 97,152 lung cancer and 4,446 esophageal cancer...

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Integrating Tumor and Stromal Gene Expression Signatures With Clinical Indices for Survival Stratification of Early-Stage Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

August 26, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Investigators from Stanford developed a nine-gene expression predictor for survival outcome in early-stage nonsquamous NSCLC. They developed and validated a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay easily applicable to routinely...

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Extent of Lymph Node Removal During Esophageal Cancer Surgery and Survival

May 17, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

In this population-based cohort study with 1044 patients who underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancer between 1987 and 2010 in Sweden, the researchers found that a higher number of lymph nodes...

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Risk for Valvular Heart Disease After Treatment for Hodgkin Lymphoma

April 13, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

This retrospective case-control study involving 1852 Hodgkin lymphoma 5-year survivors found that radiation to the heart valves tend to increase the risk for clinically significant valvular heart disease. The rate...

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miR-Test: A Blood Test for Lung Cancer Early Detection

March 21, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Concerns remain about the definition of a high risk population who can benefit from low-dose computed tomography screening programs. In this paper, the authors present a promising tool to optimize...

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Objective Measurement and Clinical Significance of TILs in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

March 12, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Samples from tissue microarrays of 552 NSCLC patients were analyzed to measure the levels of 3 different tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs): CD3, CD8, and CD20. An elevated level of CD3 or...

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Untreatable Tuberculosis: Is Surgery the Answer?

March 1, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

The increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/XDR-TB) in some countries is alarming. When few therapeutic options remain, old procedures need to be re-evaluated based on evidence, specially,...

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Effect of Prior Cancer on Outcomes in Advanced Lung Cancer: Implications for Clinical Trial Eligibility and Accrual

February 16, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Usually patients with prior cancer are excluded in lung cancer trials, but the impact on survival in lung cancer is not known. In a cohort of 102929 patients older than...

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Heavy alcohol use in lung donors increases the risk for primary graft dysfunction.

January 26, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

In this retrospective study of 173 lung transplants performed at Loyola University, investigators found a correlation between heavy alcohol use in lung transplant donors and risk of developing severe primary...

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Aerogenous Metastases: A Potential Game Changer in the Diagnosis and Management of Primary Lung Adenocarcinoma

December 10, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

This interesting article summarizes the evidence from clinical, radiologic and pathologic investigations that lung cancer, specifically adenocarcinoma, may metastasize through the airways, defined as discontinuous spread of cancer cells from...

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Projected Outcomes Using Different Nodule Sizes to Define a Positive CT Lung Cancer Screening Examination

November 30, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

A reexamination of data from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) with nodules above the 4mm, has been shown that increasing the nodule size threshold for a positive screen, substantially...

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