Characterizing Disparities in Access to Surgery for Pituitary Adenomas: A National Cancer Database Analysis.

Context: Although there is an established improved postoperative outcome for pituitary adenomas (PA) surgically resected at high-volume facilities (HVFs), access to these centers may not be equitable.

Objective: To investigate the racial and socioeconomic differences that lead to unequal distribution of access for PAs at HVFs in the United States.

Design And Patients: Retrospective analysis of data from the National Cancer Database (NCDB) from 2004 to 2019 on 57,807 patients with PA.

Clinical Predictors of Overall Survival in Very Elderly Patients With Glioblastoma: A National Cancer Database Multivariable Analysis.

Background And Objectives: Surgery for the very elderly is a progressively important paradigm as life expectancy continues to rise. Patients with glioblastoma multiforme often undergo surgery, radiotherapy (RT), and chemotherapy (CT) to prolong overall survival (OS). However, the efficacy of these treatment modalities in patients aged 80 years and older has yet to be fully assessed in the literature.

Factor structure and psychometric properties of the TFEQ in morbid obese patients, candidates to bariatric surgery.

Background: To analyze the factor structure and psychometric properties of the TFEQ in a morbid obese Spanish sample of bariatric surgery candidates.

Method: Multi-trait/ multi-item analyses and alpha coefficients were conducted to test the convergent /discriminant validity and the internal consistency reliability. Principal components analyses (varimax) were used to explore the factor structure.

Coping strategies and quality of life among liver transplantation candidates.

The maintenance of self-reported quality of life (QL) among people on the liver transplantation waiting list is one of the priority objectives of transplantation teams. Although there are different determinant factors of QL, results are not conclusive. In our study, the goal was to evaluate both the influence of cirrhosis etiology (ethylic and non-ethylic) and the coping strategies used concerning QL.

Serum human chorionic gonadotropin is associated with angiogenesis in germ cell testicular tumors.

Background: Germ cell testicular tumors have survival rate that diminishes with high tumor marker levels, such as human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). hCG may regulate vascular neoformation through vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Our purpose was to determine the relationship between hCG serum levels, angiogenesis, and VEGF expression in germ cell testicular tumors.