Adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer in 2020: has anything changed this millennium?

Post-Romanow, post-Kirby; has anything changed?

Support for childlessness: has anything changed between 2008 and 2015?

To cite: Quilliam S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2015;41:306–308. BACKGROUND 2015 has seen a 65-year-old German mother with 13 children expecting quadruplets, a media storm over the testing of new reproductive techniques on actual human pregnancies, and the autobiography of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown. In such a year, it seems pertinent for the Consumer Correspondent column to exp...

The new millennium for adjuvant therapy in breast cancer.

The treatment of microscopic metastatic breast cancer with adjuvant systemic therapy has undergone significant changes in recent years. At the same time, our understanding of the biology of breast cancer has also improved, predominantly as a consequence of data obtained from cDNA microarrays. Breast cancer genomic analyses now suggest that current breast cancer systemic therapies have a profoun...

Patterns of scald injuries in children--has anything changed?

The objective was to study presentation patterns of scald injuries in children and suggest potential countermeasures to reduce these injuries. We retrospectively studied scald injuries in children attending an urban paediatric emergency department between January 1st and December 31st 2008. Data was extracted from our emergency department database using search terms 'burn', 'scald', 'other burn...

WPW pattern in the asymptomatic individual: has anything changed?

The patient with the Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) ECG pattern has much in common with patients with other entities, such as long-QT syndrome and Brugada syndrome, which are associated with an identifying abnormality on ECG. All are relatively benign in the majority of afflicted individuals but nonetheless carry a risk of unexpected sudden death, which begs for some attempt at risk management. Th...