MDFM News: PROSTATE CANCER at ASCO GU: 18 months of androgen blockade as safe and effective as 36 months in node-negative high-risk patients

MDFM News: PROSTATE CANCER at ASCO GU: 18 months of androgen blockade as safe and effective as 36 months in node-negative high-risk patients

27/02/2013

Other headlines: – Raised incidence of HPV-associated cancers in the past 35 years in the United States. – Two new anticoagulants for the extended treatment of patients with unprovoked ven

Other headlines:
– Raised incidence of HPV-associated cancers in the past 35 years in the United States.

– Two new anticoagulants for the extended treatment of patients with unprovoked venous thromboembolism.

– Opioid analgesics drove increase in drug overdose deaths in 2010.

– Respiratory symptoms vary throughout menstrual cycle.

– Smoking bans in Belgium associated with reductions in risks of preterm delivery.

– Hydroxyethyl starch associated with a greater risk of death and acute kidney injury in critically ill patients requiring volume resuscitation.