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High intake of saturated and animal fats following a diagnosis of nonmetastatic prostate cancer is associated with increased mortality from cardiovascular disease and other cancers, according to a study. But the good news is that replacing saturated and animal fats with healthier plant-based fats may improve survival outcomes.

A natural language processing-pretrained large language model (LLM) has shown its capabilities for few-shot lung cancer classification in a real-world mixed clinical cohort using electronic nose (eNose) breathprints, resulting in lesser dependence on large training datasets, according to a study.

Limiting the intake of sugar during the first 1,000 days of life may help prevent early-onset cancer and extend disease-free lifespan, suggests a study.

In women with obesity who are scheduled to undergo endometrial cancer surgery, a preoperative weight loss intervention is feasible, helping reduce weight and the incidence of postoperative complications, according to a study.

Financial toxicity (FT) exists and is not uncommon among adult cancer survivors, potentially contributing to further decline in quality of life (QoL), according to a Singapore study. Moreover, those of lower socioeconomic status are particularly at risk of FT.

Real-world data from patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC) treated with first-line durvalumab plus cisplatin and gemcitabine across 12 countries/regions show similar survival outcomes between those who would not be eligible for the TOPAZ-1 trial and results reported in the durvalumab arm of TOPAZ-1, with no evident increase in toxicity.