According to current guidelines, follow-up of patients with colorectal cancer is ended after five years. Also, chest X-ray is not part of standard investigation during follow-up. We describe a case of a 74-year-old patient, more than ten years after a sigmoid resection because of carcinoma of the sigmoid. No recurrence was detected during intensive follow-up. However, ten years after resection ...

BACKGROUND As most recurrences in patients with breast cancer occur in the first 5 years after surgery, recurrences more than 10 years after surgery are not very frequent, and their recurrent pattern and prognosis have not been thoroughly analyzed in the literature. PATIENTS AND METHODS A review of 1,114 patients with breast carcinoma surgically treated between January 1980 and December 1993 ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this survey was to describe the natural history of complications in 52 long-surviving haemodialysis patients to obtain a clearer picture of the impact these patients have on the dialysis population. This is important as they are often no longer suitable for transplantation and therefore are destined to remain on dialysis for the rest of their lives. METHODS The patie...

Since the 1991 Gulf War, more than 10 years and 1 billion dollars of health evaluations and research have been invested in understanding illnesses among Gulf War veterans. We examined the extensive published healthcare utilization data in an effort to summarize what has been learned. Using multiple search techniques, data as of June 2003 from four different national Gulf War health registries a...

The development of process control systems has enabled implementation of advanced process control strategies, also called APC-systems. Even if the potential has been around for for a while, it is far from all processes that are equipped with an APCsystem. And those that are implemented are sometimes taken out of operation after a number of years for various reasons like, for example, complicate...

PURPOSE Radical cystectomy and urinary diversion are the standard treatment for invasive bladder cancer. We analyzed the long-term (>10 years postoperatively) functional outcomes, complications, and urodynamic findings in a single center series of patients who underwent cystectomy and a Studer ileal neobladder substitution. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective chart review of 108 Studer pouc...