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Nutritional support management in resectable gastric cancer

Francesco Serra, Paolo Pedrazzoli, Silvia Brugnatelli, Anna Pagani, Salvatore Corallo, Giovanni Rosti, Riccardo Caccialanza, Jacopo Viganò, Ornella Carminati

Article Type

Review

Published

This narrative review presents the most recent data on nutritional support in the resectable stages of gastric cancer, with a particular focus on perioperative strategies, and discusses malnutrition in gastric cancer, nutritional support before and after surgery, and the relationship between nutritional support and chemotherapy.

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Small bowel villous atrophy due to immune-checkpoint inhibitors: report of two cases and literature review

Annalisa Schiepatti, Andrea Premoli, Stiliano Maimaris, Mimma Rizzo, Maria Marples, Laura Villani, Nigel Scott, Federico Sottotetti, David S Sanders, Federico Biagi, Clare Donnellan

Article Type

Case Report

Published

This article describes two cases of enteropathy with villous atrophy due to immune-checkpoint inhibitors, which may broaden the differential diagnosis of non-coeliac enteropathies and may represent a pathogenetic model for the understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in these enteropathies. A narrative review is also provided, summarizing the current evidence on the adverse events of immune-checkpoint inhibitors involving the small bowel.

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Non-small-cell lung cancer: how to manage ALK-, ROS1- and NTRK-rearranged disease

Daniele Marinelli, Marco Siringo, Giulio Metro, Biagio Ricciuti, Alain J Gelibter

Article Type

Review

Published

ALK-, ROS1- and NTRK-rearranged tumours represent a distinct clinical and molecular entity amongst non-small-cell lung cancer and have the highest frequency amongst young, non-smoker patients. This paper discusses ALK, ROS1 and NTRK-rearranged disease and all the available treatments are evaluated.

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