Current Oncology, Volume 27, Issue 5

Introduction: Inflammation is a critical component in carcinogenesis. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (nlr) has been retrospectively studied as a biomarker of prognosis in metastatic colorectal cancer (mcrc). Compared with a low nlr, a high nlr is...

Background: Accurate classification of lung cancer subtypes has become critical in tailoring lung cancer treatment. Our study aimed to evaluate changes in diagnostic testing and pathologic subtyping of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) over...

Background: In response to Choosing Wisely recommendations that sentinel lymph node biopsy (slnb) should not be routinely performed in elderly patients with node-negative (cN0), estrogen receptor–positive (er+) breast cancer, we sought to evaluate ho...

Background: The prognostic nutritional index (PNI) is a simple metric calculated using serum albumin and the peripheral lymphocyte count. It was reported that a low PNI score is significantly associated with major postoperative complications and poor...

Background: In June 2016, when the Parliament of Canada passed Bill C-14, the country joined the small number of jurisdictions that have legalized medical assistance in dying (maid). Since legalization, nearly 7000 Canadians have received maid, most...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has necessitated changes to the way patients with chronic diseases are managed. Given that patients with multiple myeloma are at incr...

Cancer is a hypercoagulable state with an associated increased risk of venous thromboembolism (vte) that is further amplified in individuals who undergo chemotherapy. Compared with patients having cancer alone or vte alone, patients who develop cance...

The corona virus disease of 2019 (covid-19) has been traumatic [...]

Chondrosarcomas constitute the 3rd most common primary bone malignancy. These tumours grow slowly and rarely metastasize, usually having a good prognosis after surgery. Among patients registered and treated at the Brazilian National Institute of Trau...

Background: Cancer initiation typically occurs when a proto-oncogene’s coding region undergoes mutation, resulting in uncontrollable cell growth and division, or when a tumour suppressor gene’s coding region is affected by a mutation that inhibits ac...