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Nearly 70% of patients achieving a CR after primary therapy eventually recurred. Most recurrences occurred more than 6 months from completion of primary chemotherapy, and the use of second line agents at the time of recurrence was effective.
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The technique of ductal lavage was examined in women who immediately thereafter underwent mastectomy for breast cancer. A physiologic solution was injected into cannulated breast ducts and then aspirated and examined for atypical or frankly malignant cells.
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The presence of lung metastases as the first site of relapse and a negative hormone receptor status are predictive for the occurrence of brain metastases in patients with metastatic breast cancer. A prophylactic treatment should be evaluated in these subsets of patients.
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Patients without insurance have been reported to have less satisfactory health outcomes, and this has been attributed to a number of factors including access to health care and a greater burden of comorbid conditions. In the current retrospective analysis, short-term outcomes including surgical complications and in-hospital mortality were greater for uninsured or Medicaid recipient colorectal cancer patients (aged, 40-64 years) compared with those with private insurance.
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The Infection Risk of Acid-Suppressing Drugs; Is Rosuvastatin As Safe As Other Statins?; Which Estrogen Preparation is the Safest?; FDA Actions.
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This is an observational cohort study that compared HIV patients who acquired TB or bacterial pneumonia with comparison of those 2 groups of patients without TB or bacterial pneumonia, respectively. Poor prognosis for HIV-infected individuals after TB may be due to preexisting high HIV load, rather than to the TB event itself.
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Chronic carriers of hepatitis B receiving immunosuppressive chemotherapy have about a 30-50% risk of reactivation of their HBV infection, which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
