Finally, Cinderella goes to the party

Castration refractory prostate cancer: cinderella finally comes to the ball.

to show a definite clinical benefit is abiraterone acetate. Abiraterone acetate, and its active metabolite abiraterone, are potent, selective and irreversible inhibitors of CYP17 ahydroxylase and C17,20-lyase that catalyse two essential steps in androgen biosynthesis [6]. Abiraterone markedly decreases levels of androgens in CRPC and initial phase I and II clinical trials showed promising activ...

Cinderella of the cinderella services

The General Medical Council, which once found itself in court only when a doctor appealed to the privy council against a finding of serious professional misconduct, is facing a growing readiness of dissatisfied doctors to mount legal challenges to its practices and rulings. Dr Sidney Gee, the Harley Street slimming doctor cleared ofcharges ofmisconduct last April, started the trend when he took...

Still the Cinderella

Cinderella Strings

We investigate recent claims concerning a new class of cosmic string solutions in the Weinberg-Salam model. They have the general form of previously discussed semi-local and electroweak strings, but are modified by the presence of a non-zero W-condensate in the core of the string. We explicitly construct such solutions for arbitrary values of the winding number N. We then prove that they are ga...

Cinderella revisited.

OBJECTIVE To examine the references to Cinderella in medical literature. DESIGN Analysis of papers published in the past 50 years that mention Cinderella. RESULTS The trend for use of Cinderella as a metaphor in medical publications is increasing exponentially. Five separate themes emerged: neglect, identity, transformation, exhaustion, and the mixed metaphor. CONCLUSIONS The medical use ...