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LCIS: 2% annual cancer risk, less than 1% with chemoprevention

Posted on: 16/09/2015 - 16:14

Women with lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) showed a 2% annual risk of developing breast cancer, and women who chose chemoprevention reduced their annual cancer rate to less than 1%, in a...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

LCIS: 2% annual cancer risk, less than 1% with chemoprevention

Posted on: 16/09/2015 - 16:14

Women with lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) showed a 2% annual risk of developing breast cancer, and women who chose chemoprevention reduced their annual cancer rate to less than 1%, in a...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

EASD: High HbA1c linked to elevated dementia risk in patients with 2DM

Posted on: 16/09/2015 - 15:52

STOCKHOLM – Data from the Swedish National Diabetes Registry add to evidence that high blood glucose levels increase the risk for dementia in individuals with type 2 diabetes and imply that better...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Sunscreens with DNA repair enzymes might lessen AK progression

Posted on: 16/09/2015 - 13:53

Patients with actinic keratosis who used UPF 50 sunscreen containing DNA repair enzymes improved significantly more on two measures of malignant progression than did those who used sunscreen alone,...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Corticosteroids far outpaced minoxidil use for alopecia areata

Posted on: 15/09/2015 - 22:14

Alopecia areata sends “hundreds of thousands” of patients to the doctor every year in the United States, and six in ten of those visits end with a corticosteroid prescription, investigators reported...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

New ACR/EULAR gout classification criteria offer better sensitivity, specificity

Posted on: 15/09/2015 - 20:01

The presence of monosodium urate monohydrate crystals in a symptomatic joint, bursa, or tophus is sufficient to diagnose gout, according to new gout classification criteria from the American College...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

More genomic instability found in breast tumors of black women

Posted on: 15/09/2015 - 17:30

Several differences between black and white women in the genotypic traits of their breast tumors have been identified and may explain, at least in part, the greater aggressiveness of breast cancer in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

More genomic instability found in breast tumors of black women

Posted on: 15/09/2015 - 17:30

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Knee OA patients see most benefit from small doses of fish oil

Posted on: 15/09/2015 - 17:18

The anti-inflammatory properties of fish oil have been demonstrated, but for patients with knee osteoarthritis, high doses of fish oil were no more effective than was low-dose fish oil, according to...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

DCIS: Recurrence risk rises after forgoing radiotherapy

Posted on: 15/09/2015 - 16:47

The risk of recurrence continues to rise for at least 12 years among patients with low-risk DCIS who forgo radiotherapy after undergoing lumpectomy, investigators reported online Sept. 14 in Journal...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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