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Daily administration of a low dose oral birth control pill results in significantly fewer bleeding days.
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Only 5% of white women and 0.6% of black women are potential candidates for tamoxifen chemoprevention.
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Port-site metastasis after laparoscopic surgery during chemotherapy, or when adequate chemotherapy has been given, is usually associated with poor outcome.
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Intraperitoneal chromic phosphate did not decrease the risk of relapse or improve survival for patients with stage III epithelial ovarian cancer after a negative second-look surgery.
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Compared to histopathology, visual diagnosis of PID is neither accurate nor reproducible.
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Vessey, Painter, and Yeates from the University of Oxford used the prospective cohort of women enrolled in the Oxford Family Planning Association Study to assess mortality in users and nonusers of oral contraceptives.
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As pointed out in previous OB/GYN Clinical Alerts, about 1 in 4 patients in the United States are delivered by cesarean section, a procedure still classified as a major operation.
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The Womens Health Initiative (WHI) reports that estrogen-progestin therapy reduces fractures, but the number of gynecologic cancers observed precludes a definitive statement on the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers.
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Weekly injections of alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate resulted in a substantial reduction in the rate of recurrent preterm delivery among women who were at particularly high risk for preterm delivery and reduced the likelihood of several complications in their infants.
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