Exercise for Cancer Patients, Colonoscopy Surveillance, Vaccinations Save Lives, Metabolic Acidosis
This week's topics include sodium bicarbonate in critically ill people, exercise and cancer survival, Covid vaccination and immune checkpoint inhibitors, and colonoscopy after polyp removal.
Program notes:
0:40 Structured exercise after cancer
1:40 Moderate evidence
2:40 Improves overall survival
3:41 Improves drug penetration
4:00 Colonoscopy intervals after polyp removal
5:00 Five-year cumulative incidence same as three years
6:03 Covid vaccination and immune checkpoint therapy
7:03 Mortality as primary outcome
8:04 Multiple benefits of vaccination
9:03 Other vaccines of benefit?
9:50 Does sodium bicarbonate help in critical illness and shock
10:50 Metabolic acidosis tx
11:50 Largely futile
12:37 End