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AI-induced symptoms don’t predict survival

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 21:00

Vasomotor and musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitor adjuvant therapy do not signal a more intense treatment response and thus do not predict better survival in women with...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

20 years after initiating preventive tamoxifen, less breast cancer but no survival benefit

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 18:55

SAN ANTONIO – Five years of tamoxifen provided 20 years of breast cancer prevention to some at-risk women who took it prophylactically. However, their 20-year all-cause mortality was no different...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

20 years after initiating preventive tamoxifen, less breast cancer but no survival benefit

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 18:55

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Maintenance tacrolimus for eczema boosts quality of life

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 14:13

AMSTERDAM – Twice-weekly proactive maintenance therapy with 0.1% tacrolimus ointment in adults with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis resulted in dramatic improvement in self-reported quality of...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Nursing home-onset C. difficile infections cut wide swath

Posted on: 14/12/2014 - 20:35

PHILADELPHIA – Clostridium difficile infections among nursing home residents resulted in some 31,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths nationally in 2012, population-based surveillance data...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Nursing home-onset C. difficile infections cut wide swath

Posted on: 14/12/2014 - 20:35

PHILADELPHIA – Clostridium difficile infections among nursing home residents resulted in some 31,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths nationally in 2012, population-based surveillance data...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

VIDEO: What was the most interesting thing you learned at the meeting?

Posted on: 14/12/2014 - 14:27

SAN ANTONIO – Our reporter Michele Sullivan asked selected attendees at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium to identify the most interesting or practice-changing study presented at the meeting....

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: What was the most interesting thing you learned at the meeting?

Posted on: 14/12/2014 - 14:27

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Hormone therapy ‘timing hypothesis’ gains ground in ELITE

Posted on: 12/12/2014 - 18:04

CHICAGO– The “timing hypothesis” of estrogen’s ability to slow progression of atherosclerotic disease in relatively young postmenopausal women received a boost in results from a randomized trial with...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

SOFT trial endorses selective ovarian suppression in early breast cancer

Posted on: 12/12/2014 - 16:57

SAN ANTONIO – Adding ovarian suppression to 5 years of tamoxifen in women with hormone receptor–positive early breast cancer who remain premenopausal following chemotherapy provides a markedly...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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