Patient Care
England Plans Dramatic Modernization of Healthcare
In a massive information-technology (IT) project, England is planning to store every citizen's individual healthcare record in a central electronic database, which will be accessible to doctors everywhere in the country by a broadband network, taking online medicine to a higher level. More...23 Dec 2003
Poor Prognosis for BRCA1 Breast Cancer Patients
A review of clinical records has shown that breast cancer patients with an inherited mutation in the BRCA1 gene have a lower chance of survival, but that this prognosis is cancelled by treatment with chemotherapy, even when the woman was under 50 when diagnosed or if the tumor was larger than 2 cm. More...04 Nov 2003
Drug Dramatically Reduces Breast Cancer Recurrence
A large international trial has found that survivors of early-stage breast cancer who took the drug letrozole after completing an initial five years of tamoxifen therapy had almost half the risk of cancer recurrence compared to women taking a placebo. More...22 Oct 2003
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