Marcelo Jimenez

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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 discrepancies in access to new...

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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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Smoking status impacts microRNA mediated prognosis and lung adenocarcinoma biology

November 12, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

This study was conducted in 94 lung adenocarcinoma patients matching pairs from current, former and never smokers’ lung adenocarcinoma and non-malignant lung parenchymal tissue. Investigators discovered different smoking-specific microRNA differences....

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The effect of diaphragmatic plication on chest wall dynamics

October 16, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

In the last EACTS meeting celebrated in Milan, presented by A. Kerr nee Bradley and colleagues from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, are the first data in humans showing the improvement in...

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Discussions About Clinical Trials Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed Lung and Colorectal Cancer

October 15, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

It seems that patients with lung or colorectal cancer have poor enrollment in clinical trials, according to the recent multiregional survey carried out by the authors in a cohort of...

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Phase II Study of Accelerated Hypofractionated Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy for Stage T1-3 N0 M0 Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: NCIC CTG BR.25

September 12, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

This multi-institutional phase II trial (80 patients from 17 Canadian institutions) was performed to assess if a hypofractionated accelerated radiotherapy regimen for cytohistological-proven early stage NSCLC (peripherally located T1 to...

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Treatment Trends, Risk of Lymph Node Metastasis, and Outcomes for Localized Esophageal Cancer

August 31, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

In this retrospective study based on a database of 5390 patients with early-stage esophageal cancer, T1a and T1b lesions were treated by endoscopic (26.5%) or surgical resection (73.5%). For patients...

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Low-dose computed tomography lung cancer screening in the Medicare program: Projected clinical, resource, and budget impact.

June 25, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

In this study presented by Dr. Joshua A. Roth recently at the ASCO meeting, they used a model to forecast the 5-year results of implementation of a screening program (as...

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Transcriptomic Architecture of the Adjacent Airway Field Cancerization in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

April 14, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

In this promising investigation, authors have found changes associated with airway cancerization in large airways in lung cancer patients, while these changes are absent in cancer-free smokers. And in addition,...

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Lifetime Cigarette Smoking and Breast Cancer Prognosis in the After Breast Cancer Pooling Project

January 23, 2014 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Using data from the 3 US cohorts in the After Breast Cancer Pooling Project (ABCPP) with information about duration and smoking exposure in 10000 breast cancer survivor, researchers analyzed the...

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