Bottom-line Reality Tempers Cancer Researchers' Excitement

The bottom line.

The bottom line

In the springtime, young men’s thoughts turn to love, but old men begin to contemplate retirement. I have lost count now, but this spring will be either the fourth or fifth time I will have retired and I am now looking forward to the next things I want to do. When I was in my fifties, twenty years ago, I was worried about retirement, having seen what happened to people I knew when they were tos...

Venous thrombotic events in cancer: the bottom line.

Approximately 20% of all new VTE events are associated with malignancy.2 Patients with cancer have a 6-fold higher risk for VTE than noncancer patients according to one study, and a 10-fold multiplication according to another.3 Laboratory findings of a hypercoagulable state, however, are uncommon in this population.4 Nonetheless, evidence is increasing that dysregulated cancer cells can produce...

The bottom line.

An annual investment of $92 billion for highways and bridges, between 2004 and 2009, is necessary to maintain the physical condition and performance characteristics of the system. An annual investment of $125.6 billion for highways and bridges is necessary to improve the physical condition and performance characteristics of the system over 20 years. An annual capital investment of $19 billion i...

Clinical Bottom Line

pneumonectomy and co-factors. The manual closure seems to be the more preferable method in high-risk patients. An additive support suture following stapling on the bronchial stump did not decrease the risk of BPF. Deschamps et al. [7] analysed factors affecting the incidence of empyema and BPF after pneumonectomy in 713 patients who underwent pneumonectomy for different conditions. Univariate a...