Purpose: A growing body of data suggests that local control in nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is related to the radiation dose administered. We conducted a singleinstitution study of high-dose radiotherapy (RT), which incorporated high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy (BT). These results were analyzed together with data obtained from controls who did not receive BT. Patients and Methods: The BT group...

of the evidence on off-label doses of cetirizine for chronic urticaria ( hives) to. If higher than standard doses of antihistamines are to be considered, . Double-blind crossover study of high-dose cetirizine in cholinergic urticaria. Zuberbier T(1), Münzberger C, Haustein U, Trippas E, Burtin B, Mariz SD, Henz BM. Nov 10, 2011 . Urticaria (hives) is a common disorder that often presents with s...

context: to evaluate treatment success and hypothyroidism following main methods of radioiodine therapy of toxic nodular goiter (tng); calculated versus fixed dose and high versus low dose of radioiodine. evidence acquisitions: we searched medline and scopus databases from inception till july 2013, for clinical trials that compared two different methods of radioiodine administration in tng. the...

Breast cancer has become the leading indication for high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) with autologous stem cell rescue (ASCR) in North America. The rapid increase in HDC/ASCR for breast cancer has been driven by belief in the response rates and survival times demonstrated in phase II studies, which have been higher than that of historical controls. However, there is a growing body of data to suggest...