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Identification of Prognostic Factors for Early Mortality in Treatment of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Calculating 60-day mortality risk by these readily available parameters (ECOG PS and WBC) can be used to identify high-risk patients who may require heightened surveillance after standard or experimental chemotherapy or, alternatively, a reduction in treatment intensity. -
Pancreatic Cancer Patients Live Longer when nab-Paclitaxel Is Added to Gemcitabine
It is indeed ironic that 16 years after the landmark Burris study, innovations in pancreatic cancer treatment still lack essential quality-of-life data. -
Redefining the Natural History of Borderline Ovarian Tumors
This paper represents the largest collection of cases with central path review and provides better clarity to prognostic factors previously intimated from retrospective work. -
As CRE increases don't forget CDC toolkit
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OK, this may really be the stuff of nightmares
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CRE endoscope outbreak raises troubling questions about reprocessing, emerging New Delhi enzyme
An upper endoscopy procedure performed on some half million patients annually in the U.S. may pose risk for transmission of the emerging New Delhi variety of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) even if current cleaning and high level disinfection protocols are followed. -
CDC still hopeful NDM threat can be contained
In a shrinking global village it seems a pathogen emerging anywhere is soon a threat everywhere, but public health officials are not conceding victory to the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) variety of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). -
Hospital: No patient deaths linked to CRE outbreak
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Hospital Infection Control & Prevention - Full February 2014 Issue in PDF
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Surgical Excision of Endometriomas and Effect on Ovarian Reserve
In a prospective cohort study, women with endometriomas (> 2 cm) were found to have a decrease in ovarian reserve parameters compared to healthy controls 1 and 6 months after the endometriomas were removed.