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...ons compared to normal and overweight patients (27 percent vs. 18 percent and 15 percent, respectively). Nearly half the patients underwent a classic Whipple procedure, in ...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...o 19 years committed suicide. In 2005, more than 8 percent of high school students reported one or more suici...ulted in the past 12 months. Females made up 51 percent of the students and those who responded were primarily not white (40.1 percent Hispanic, 36 percent ...Study examines characteristics of female high school students who report steroid use
...for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 7 percent of ninth-grade girls reported ever using anabolic ... illegal or unhealthy behaviors. A total of 5.3 percent of the participants reported prior or ongoing steroid use. Participating in team sports was negative...Blocking stress protein decreases Alzheimer's peptide in mice
... from moving. Three hours of restraint led to a 30 percent increase in amyloid beta levels. The spike in amyloid beta encouraged researchers to start looking for molecules that might be enabling this rapid change. Stress hormones produced by the adrenal gland were natural suspects. In mice, that meant corti...African-American men understimate risk of prostate cancer
...he average age of these patients was 63. Almost 40 percent of the men were African-American. Fifty-six percent had at least a college education level. Despite being referred for biopsy because they were known...Hot flashes may be welcome sign in women with breast cancer, study says
...t flashes was about 12.9 percent, compared with 21 percent for women not reporting hot flashes. These data were consistent across all years of follow-up, regardless of age or menopausal status. "This study provides the first evidence that hot flashes may be an indicator of a better prognosis in women with ...Female teen steroid use not limited to athletes
...er illegal or unhealthy behaviors. Approximately 5 percent of participants reported prior or ongoing anabolic steroid use. In addition to greater substance use, young female steroid users were more likely to have had sexual intercourse before age 13; have been pregnant; drink and drive or have ridden with...Researcher says few families report safe firearm storage
...lished in the June issue of Pediatrics. "Over 70 percent of the families surveyed reported not storing their firearms safely in their residence," DuRant said. "This concerns us a great deal because having guns in the home increases the likelihood that they will be used in a suicide or unintentional injury....Revlimid data presented at ASCO stands to change the way physicians treat multiple myeloma
...imid/LDD vs 86% with Revlimid/HDD, more than a ten percent improvement in survival. About Multiple Myeloma Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the bone marrow that affects production of red cells, white cells and stem cells. It is the second most prevalent of the blood cancers, aff...May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...d at academic medical centers, where less than one percent of Americans receive their health care, the author...ffering from the common cold want an on-average 25 percent to 57 percent reduction in overall illness severity to justify the cost and risk of popular cold tre...Drug shows activity against brain metastases
... developed metastases to the brain. About 30 to 40 percent of women treated with Herceptin for stage IV breast cancer are diagnosed with brain metastases. Brain tumors shrank significantly in what was termed a partial response in 15 patients (6 percent). Across all 241 patients, there was a period averagin...Herceptin does not increase heart failure in patients long term
...increased risk for congestive heart failure a 4.1 percent incidence of congestive health failure was reporte...Herceptin and chemotherapy group compared to a 0.8 percent increase in the control group. The current study found that after five years follow-up, the incid...Brain-boosting pill alleviates post-chemotherapy fogginess
...In a separate study last year, Kohli found that 82 percent of 595 cancer patients reported problems with memory and concentration. Importantly, the deficits can lead to job loss or social dysfunction. Scientists have not yet discovered the precise cause of chemo-brain. A separate research group at the Univ...Adding radioimmunotherapy to chemo may help patients with lymphoma
...s Abstract 8005 in the ASCO proceedings. Over 90 percent of study patients responded completely to the trea...sponses and then treated them with IT. Sixty-eight percent of the patients had a complete response to treatment with CHOP-R. This percentage increased to 96 pe...Study finds difference in survival rates among white and black women with advanced breast cancer
...ases of breast cancer, the researchers say that 10 percent of the patients are diagnosed with metastatic brea...with advanced breast disease are decreasing by 2.3 percent annually. The researchers hope that health policy makers take notice of the growing disparity and ...Vorinostat shows anti-cancer activity in recurrent gliomas
...gery, radiation and chemotherapy, we found that 15 percent of the patients had no tumor recurrence for six months or longer following treatment initiation. The median overall survival of the patients enrolled on the trial was 5.7 months -- similar patient populations enrolled in prior NCCTG trials had a medi...Treatment for early prostate cancer associated with type of specialist seen
...atchful waiting). Among the men in the study, 50 percent were seen exclusively by a urologist; 44 percent by both a radiation oncologist and urologist; 3 percent by both a medical oncologist and urologist; ...Exploring better ways to determine when to change the course of treatment
...e initiation of the first treatment (baseline), 53 percent of patients had no detectable CTC. These patients had superior median survival times compared with those patients who had circulating tumor cells. A favorable CTC number before treatment is associated with better progression free survival and overa...Nonhormonal drug reduces hot flashes in men treated for prostate cancer
...uency and the intensity of hot flashes by up to 46 percent in men receiving androgen deprivation therapy. The...n therapy can be quite severe. Overall, between 60 percent and 80 percent of these patients suffer from hot flashes, Dr. Loprinzi says, and in this clinical tr......ovel) were identified in 15 of the 38 families (40 percent detection rate). Two families from this study plus...iers for clinically detected gastric cancer was 40 percent for males and 63 percent for females and the risk for breast cancer in female mutation carriers was ...