Argyrios Ioannidis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared postoperative outcomes in breast, colorectal, and gastric cancer surgery in hospitals worldwide, focusing on the effect of disease stage and complications on postoperative mortality.

TL;DR: Surgical site infections are important complications affecting the healthcare services, the cost of hospitalization and the patient himself, and several studies have revealed that patient characteristics and coexisting morbidities such as obesity, smoking, heart or renal failure, pre-existing localized infections and patients' age seem to be independent prognostic factors for surgical field infections.

TL;DR: Adrenalectomy following metastatic disease to the adrenals should be performed when the lesion is isolated in the gland and the site of primary cancer has or can be resected.

TL;DR: Evaluating the role of HDACIs in ATC treatment and describing the latest trends of current research on this field found them to represent a promising therapy for ATC management, both as monotherapy and in combination with other anticancer drugs.

TL;DR: More studies are required in order to assess the exact impact of MDT boards on disease-free and overall survival of patients with primary rectal cancer, and the available evidence demonstrates a modification of the treatment plan in a non-negligible proportion of these patients.