Should we be screening for anti-Jsa?

Should we be screening for ovarian cancer?

Ovarian cancer carries the worst prognosis of all gynaecological cancers, with an overall five-year survival rate of around 30-40 percent. For women diagnosed with early-stage disease the five-year survival rate is over 80 percent1. Majority of the ovarian cancers present in advanced stages due to vague symptoms. Advanced stage disease carries a poor fiveyear survival rate of around 15 percent....

Should we be screening for early diabetic renal disease?

Mammography Screening--how persistent should we be in the recommendations?

55 year old women came to me as her family doctor, seeking advice on mammography screening. She rather wouldn't do it because she feels well, is a bit afraid of radiation and thinks it's not important, since she doesn't have individual risk. Having in mind newly emerging evidence about the questionable value of the screening, especially in women without any risks, I was in dilemma what to recom...

Should we all be vegetarians?

Retrospective hepatitis C seroprevalence screening in the antenatal setting—should we be screening antenatal women?

OBJECTIVES An unlinked anonymous seroprevalence study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in samples derived from antenatal clinic attendees at 2 East London Hospitals. An unexpectedly high HCV seroprevalence of 2.6% (1.2% viraemic) had been revealed during an unlinked study of the emergency department at 1 of these hospitals. DESIGN 1000 stored resid...