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Comparison between children and adolescents with and without chronic benign pain: consultation rate and pain characteristics
The aim of the study was to determine whether children with chronic benign
pain are in contact with their general practitioner (GP) more frequently
than those without chronic benign pain. A random sample of children and
adolescents aged between 0 and 18 years of age was drawn from the records
of ten general practices. According to their responses to a pain
questionnaire, subjects were assigned to the chronic benign pain group (n
= 95) if they had pain of more than three months' duration, or to the
control group (n = 105) if they had pain of less than three months'
duration or no pain at all. All the subjects had an average GP
consultation rate of 2.6 contacts per year. No significant age and sex
differences were found. Chronic benign pain in childhood and adolescence
is not related to increased use of healthcare services, suggesting that
somatisation does not play a major role in children with chronic benign
pain
Benchmarking recent national practice in rectal cancer treatment with landmark randomized controlled trials
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Cross-Sectional Study on MRI Restaging After Chemoradiotherapy and Interval to Surgery in Rectal Cancer: Influence on Short- and Long-Term Outcomes
Background. The time interval between CRT and surgery in rectal cancer patients is still the subject of debate. The aim of this study was to first evaluate the nationwide use of restaging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and its impact on timing of surgery, and, second, to evaluate the impact of timing of surgery after chemoradiotherapy (CRT) on short- and long-term outcomes.Methods. Patients were selected from a collaborative rectal cancer research project including 71 Dutch centres, and were subdivided into two groups according to time interval from the start of preoperative CRT to surgery (= 14 weeks), and the long-interval group included a higher proportion of cT4 stage and multivisceral resection patients. Pathological complete response rate (n = 34 [15.2%] vs. n = 47 [18.7%], p = 0.305) and CRM involvement (9.7% vs. 15.9%, p = 0.145) did not significantly differ. Thirty-day surgical complications were similar (20.1% vs. 23.1%, p = 0.943), however no significant differences were found for local and distant recurrence rates, disease-free survival, and overall survival.Conclusions. These real-life data, reflecting routine daily practice in The Netherlands, showed substantial variability in the use and timing of restaging MRI after preoperative CRT for rectal cancer, as well as time interval to surgery. Surgery before or after 14 weeks from the start of CRT resulted in similar short- and long-term outcomes.Surgical oncolog