Disputes regarding the dogma of abstinence or the claim that it is possible to revert to controlled drinking illustrate a deep-seated lack of belief in the individual’s chances of changing without treatment. However, when people do change from substance misuse, most of them change on their own. Features common to the successful quitting of alcohol, gambling, overeating and drug taking are mostl...

Previous reports from this laboratory have dealt with the ecologic, pathologic, clinical, and pathophysiologic features of brisket disease (1, 2). On the basis of these studies brisket disease may be defined as altitude-dependent, pulmonary, hypertensive heart disease in cattle of the species Bos taiurus. Briefly, the disease in Utah occurs primarily in young calves usually during their first e...

Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL) is a rare hematologic neoplasm that typically presents with B symptoms, anemia, and lymphadenopathy. Its overall prognosis is poor, with a 5-year survival rate of 30%. We present a case of AITL that went into spontaneous remission, an uncommon occurrence.

Sir, We thank Dr Solak for his comments about our article. Glomerulonephritis is a rare disorder, and various reports tell us that the incidence of glomerulonephritis is 12.5–47 per million population [1,2]. However, there are not enough data about the prevalence of glomerulonephritis. For this reason, we did not use a control group. Another reason was that we had a small patient population for...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/onk Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com tumour. We do not know the particulars which make this difference in outcome, but there is no doubt that the pathohistological constitution of the tumours plays a decisive role... But I don’t want to be misunderstood that – because of occasional observations of cancer remissions in spite ...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a frequent mental disorder associated with significant distress and high costs. We conducted the first systematic review and meta-analysis on spontaneous long-term remission rates, i. e., without specific treatment. Data sources were searches of databases, hand searches, and contact with authors. Remission estimates were obtained from observational prospe...

CASE REPORT A 59-year-old man originally presented with T3 pT3NlMO grade 2 prostatic adenocarcinoma after radical retmpubic prostatectomy. After 9 years he underwent surgical castration for a painful solitary metastatic lesion in the right pelvis, confirmed by highly elevated prostatic acid phosphatase and prostate specific antigen (PSA), and a new metastasis seen on a bone scan of the right 0s...