Thromboembolism associated with the new contraceptive Yasmin.

causes, mortality in women with left sided tumours did not differ significantly from that in women with right sided tumours. Most of the late cardiovascular deaths involved women treated for breast cancer in the 1970s, and improvements in radiotherapy techniques since then have tended to reduce radiation dose to the heart. For women treated in the 1980s, however, the cardiovascular ratio, left versus right, was still 1.11 but with a wide 95% confidence interval (0.95 to 1.29).