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  • Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement

  • Risk of Developing Brain Metastases in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer

    In a retrospective analysis of risk factors for the development of cerebral metastases in patients with known metastatic breast cancer, several factors including ER, HER-2, patient age, and site of first metastatic recurrence were found to be predicted. Using a cumulative incidence model employing competing-risk regression analysis, small initial tumor size, and the absence of metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis appeared to be independent risk factors.
  • Bortezomib, Rituximab, and Dexamethasone for Relapsed Mantle Cell Lymphoma

    Preclinical data suggest bortezomib and rituximab have synergy for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). The authors studied bortezomib, rituximab, and dexamethasone in relapsed and refractory MCL using 1.3 mg/m2 of bortezomib on days 1, 4, 8, and 11 with rituximab on day 1 and 40 mg of dexamethasone on days 1-4.
  • Ductal Carcinoma in Situ

    A 57-year-old, postmenopausal African American schoolteacher was found by annual screening mammogram to have a suspicious irregularity. Follow-up ultrasound did not reveal cystic disease so a repeat "spot" mammogram-assisted biopsy was obtained and a grade 1 invasive ductal carcinoma with tubular elements was found.
  • HPV vaccine rates trail teen vaccines

    Results from a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that teen vaccination rates for human papillomavirus (HPV) remain low in comparison with other vaccines administered to young adults.
  • EPT gets support from ACOG

    If you haven't included expedited partner therapy (EPT) in your practice of treating patients with gonorrhea and chlamydia, more support for the measure has arrived in the form of a new committee opinion from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
  • What will it take to boost vasectomy use?

    While vasectomy is a safe, simple, effective form of contraception, female sterilization is the preferred method of sterilization among couples in the United States. About 17% of women between ages 15-44 have had tubal sterilizations, while only 6% rely on male sterilization for birth control.
  • Washington Watch: Medicaid targeted by budget hawks

    At the federal and state levels, cutting government spending has led the political agenda in 2011, and conservative policymakers have specifically targeted Medicaid.
  • More clinicians put US MEC into practice

    Are you implementing guidance from the US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2010, (US MEC) released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
  • Potential link found between hormonal contraception, HIV risk

    Results from an analysis presented at the recent 2011 International AIDS Society conference in Rome suggest that using certain methods of hormonal contraception particularly injectable contraception might double the risk of HIV acquisition in a previously uninfected woman and also might double the risk that an HIV- infected woman will transmit HIV to a previously uninfected male sexual partner.