Archive - November 2008

• Most ED frequent flyers need hospital care (27/11/2008)
• Waiters, seamen among workers at highest cancer risk (27/11/2008)
• New imaging may cut biopsies (25/11/2008)
• Consolidation with 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan improves PFS in patients with advanced-stage follicular lymphoma (24/11/2008)
• HPV vax may cut other cancers (24/11/2008)
• Preventative Health Taskforce seeks input (21/11/2008)
• Little sound evidence on which to base self-care education for patients receiving chemotherapy (21/11/2008)
• Varenicline aids smoking cessation but watch for side effects (17/11/2008)
• Childhood infections not linked to reduced risk of leukaemia (17/11/2008)
• Statins reduce PSA levels (17/11/2008)
• Counselling helps alleviate doctors’ burn-out (14/11/2008)
• Socioeconomic inequalities in survival for the major cancer types in the UK (14/11/2008)
• Chemo patients need more facts (11/11/2008)
• High success rates from ‘impaired doctor’ programs (09/11/2008)
• Bevacizumab plus interferon improvers outcomes compared to interferon alone (09/11/2008)
• Think twice before putting up a drip (07/11/2008)
• Patients recall less than half the information given to them in oncology consultations (07/11/2008)
• Pensioners forgoing meds (04/11/2008)
• Lymphoedema: checks required (04/11/2008)
• Exemestane compared with tamoxifen in advanced breast cancer (04/11/2008)
• Tumour gene marker predicts efficacy of cetuximab in colorectal cancer (03/11/2008)

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