Uro-Oncology: An Evolution of Past Four Decades in India

Explaining Changes in Child Poverty Over the Past Four Decades

Childhood leprosy in India over the past two decades.

OBJECTIVES Clinico-epidemiological pattern of childhood leprosy in India over the past two decades were analysed from the Indian studies conducted during the years 1990-2009. RESULTS Twelve studies on childhood leprosy were included. Ten were conducted in health institutions and one was a community-based survey. Voluntary reporting was the principal method of case detection; community survey ...

Open clinical uro-oncology trials in Canada.

A MULTICENTRE, RANDOMIZED PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, DOUBLE-BLIND PHASE III TRIAL OF SINGLEDOSE INTRAVESICAL EOQUIN (APAZIQUONE) AS A SURGICAL ADJUVANT INSTILLED IN THE EARLY POST-OPERATIVE PERIOD IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING TRANSURETRHAL RESECTION FOR NONINVASIVE BLADDER CANCER Trial ID: SPI-612 Coordination: Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Trial design: Phase III, blinded. Patient population: Patients with rese...

Positron emission tomography in uro-oncology

Positron emission tomography (PET) in uro-oncology has been one of the slowest areas to develop. There are problems because of the excretion of tracer through the renal tract. Its use in prostate cancer has generally being disappointing, with PET being unable to differentiate malignancy from benign prostatic hypertrophy. In more advanced disease and in the search for the site of recurrence, PET...

Four decades of antipoverty policy: Past developments and future directions

and obscures the secular increase in real expenditure on means-tested transfer programs taken as a whole. Indeed, Figure 1, which shows expenditures since 1968 in the 80 largest programs in the country, indicates that per-capita expenditure on means-tested programs is higher today than ever in its history. The enormous growth in real expenditure that occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ...