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Patients who received CFRT were older, smoked more often concurrently with treatment, had higher ECOG performance status, different T and N stage patterns, and more commonly received concurrent chemoradiotherapy and prophylactic cranial irradiation. After propensity score matching for these differences, 72 patients were included, 36 in the HFRT and CFRT cohorts respectively. There was no difference in OS (P=0.724), PFS (P=0.862), any pulmonary (P=0.350), or esophageal (P=0.097) adverse events between cohorts. Skin adverse events were significantly higher for CFRT (41.7%) compared with HFRT (16.7%, P=0.020). Multivariable Cox regression also revealed no differences in OS (P=0.886) or PFS (P=0.717) between all HFRT and CFRT patients, without matching. No grade 5 adverse events were observed. Conclusion In LS-SCLC patients, HFRT was associated with comparable survival and toxicity outcomes and may be considered as an alternative to CFRT, should its efficacy be confirmed in prospective studies.Purpose Oligorecurrent prostate cancer has historically been treated with indefinite androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), although many patients and providers opt to defer this treatment at time of recurrence given quality-of-life and/or comorbidity considerations. Recently, metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) has emerged as a potential intermediary between surveillance and immediate continuous ADT. Simultaneously, "advanced" systemic therapy, in addition to ADT, has also been shown to improve survival in metastatic hormone-sensitive disease. This study aimed to compare the cost-effectiveness of treating oligorecurrent patients with upfront MDT prior to standard-of-care systemic therapy. Methods A Markov-based cost-effectiveness analysis was constructed comparing three strategies (1) upfront MDT → salvage abiraterone acetate plus prednisone (AAP)+ADT → salvage docetaxel+ADT, (2) upfront AAP+ADT → salvage docetaxel+ADT, and (3) upfront docetaxel+ADT → salvage AAP+ADT. Transition probabilities and utilities were dpecially in patients wishing to defer systemic therapy for quality-of-life or comorbidity concerns. Additional studies are needed to determine whether MDT causes a sustained meaningful delay in disease natural history, and whether any benefit exists in combining MDT with upfront advanced systemic therapy.In the last few years there have been dramatic changes in the management of melanoma patients with locally advanced disease. Previously, standard therapy for melanoma patients with nodal disease involved completion lymph node dissection followed by adjuvant radiation therapy for high risk features, as defined by TROG 02.01. Adjuvant systemic therapy with interferon could be offered but many eligible patients did not receive this agent in the context of significant toxicity. New, effective and often well-tolerated systemic therapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors and targeted MAPK pathway inhibitors have shown impressive responses in metastatic disease and are now being applied to the locally advanced setting. Opaganib ic50 Currently, for patients with occult nodal disease found at sentinel lymph node biopsy, completion lymph node dissection is uncommon with adjuvant anti-PD1 therapy often recommended. For patients with clinically apparent nodal disease, neoadjuvant immunotherapy has shown impressive pathologic response rates, which thus far have correlated well with longer term disease outcomes. However, not all patients exhibit a robust pathologic response. In circumstances of either occult nodal disease or clinically evident nodal disease without a robust pathologic response to neoadjuvant immunotherapy, there is a dearth of evidence regarding the optimal use of radiation therapy. Prospective studies investigating the role of adjuvant nodal radiation therapy for melanoma patients in the modern immunotherapy era are much needed.Despite studies investigating the effect of yoga on cognitive and motor functioning in older adults, the effect on dual-task performance and motor learning and the specific mechanisms underlying the positive effect of yoga remain unclear. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of yoga on cognition, balance under single- and dual-task conditions, and motor learning. The potential role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in induced improvement was also explored. Participants aged 60-79 years were randomized to either a control group (n = 15) or a yoga group (n = 18) for a 10-week period. The yoga group received 90-min duration yoga classes two times per week. Changes in cognition, balance under single- and dual-task conditions, and learning fast and accurate reaching movements were assessed. Yoga practice decreased (P less then 0.05) the velocity vector of the center of pressure under single- and dual-task conditions, whereas no changes in cognitive performance were observed. Although reaction and movement times during learning were decreased in both groups (P less then 0.05), a faster reaction time (P less then 0.05) and shorter movement time (P less then 0.05) were observed in the yoga group than in the control group. Significant moderate relationships (P less then 0.05) between changes in BDNF levels and functional improvements were observed. Thus, 10 weeks of yoga practice resulted in improved balance and learning in the speed-accuracy motor task that were mediated by increased BDNF levels, but had no impact on cognition in older adults.Background Emerging evidence demonstrates that bone is an endocrine organ capable of influencing multiple physiological and pathological processes through the secretion of hormones. Recent research suggests complex crosstalk between the bone and other metabolic and cardiovascular tissues. It was uncovered that three of these bone-derived hormones-osteocalcin, lipocalin 2, and sclerostin-are involved in the endocrine regulations of cardiometabolic health and play vital roles in the pathophysiological process of developing cardiometabolic syndromes such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Chronic low-grade inflammation is one of the hallmarks of cardiometabolic diseases and a major contributor to disease progression. Novel evidence also implicates important roles of bone-derived hormones in the regulation of chronic inflammation. Scope of review In this review, we provide a detailed overview of the physiological and pathological roles of osteocalcin, lipocalin 2, and sclerostin in cardiometabolic health regulation and disease development, with a focus on the modulation of chronic inflammation.