Robotic versus conventional nipple sparing mastectomy and immediate gel implant breast reconstruction in the management of breast cancer- A case control comparison study with analysis of clinical outcome, medical cost, and patient-reported cosmetic

: Robotic nipple sparing mastectomy and immediate gel implant breast reconstruction in the management of breast cancer had comparable clinical outcome with conventional nipple...

3 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery - 4 articles

Allograft Alone vs. Allograft with Intramedullary Vascularized Fibular Graft for Lower Extremity Bone Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Limb-salvage surgery has become a first-line treatment in the setting of lower extremity cancer. Despite a multitude of techniques, the most effective modality for osseous...

3 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery

Researchers implicate gene in DNA errors in aggressive breast cancer

Researchers led by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, described the role of a mutation in the Mre11 gene in triple negative breast cancer and...

4 days ago - UNC Healthcare - 2 articles

Impact of skeletal muscle mass on complications following expander breast reconstruction

Sarcopenia is characterized by skeletal muscle mass depletion and decreased muscle power. In two-stage breast reconstruction using a tissue expander, obesity is the main risk...

6 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery

Soliton Seeks 510 Clearance for its Generation II RAP Device

Soliton, a medical device company using a Rapid Acoustic Pulse platform technology licensed from The University of Texas on behalf of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, has filed...

7 days ago - Surgical Aesthetics Magazine

Should young cancer survivors be preemptively treated with senolytics or other antiaging drugs?

11 days ago - Healio

Researchers develop method to engineer immune cells so they grow even in hostile tumors

Researchers led by UNC Lineberger's Gianpietro Dotti, MD, report in the journal Nature Biotechnology they have created a method for providing a stimulatory signal to...

16 days ago - UNC Healthcare - 5 articles

Study finds blood test accurately tracks HPV-linked head and neck cancer

Bhisham Chera, MD, and Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, led a study of a blood test to accurately detect HPV-linked head and neck cancer recurrence and confirm when there was no evidence...

16 days ago - UNC Healthcare

Nyrop Receives Grant to Study Interventions for Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Survival

Kirsten Nyrop, PhD, UNC Lineberger member and assistant professor of hematology/oncology, has received a $50,000 award from the Integrated Approach to Breast Health Equity...

17 days ago - UNC Healthcare

NCI Appoints Gopal Director of Center for Global Health

The National Cancer Institute has named Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, director of the NCI Center for Global Health. He assumes his new role today.

18 days ago - UNC Healthcare