Competing mortality contributes to excess mortality in patients with poor-risk lymph node-positive prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy.

Background: Factors predicting survival in men with lymph node-positive prostate cancer are still poorly defined.

Patients And Methods: 193 prostate cancer patients with histopathologically proven lymph node involvement with a median follow-up of 7.3 years were studied.

[The fate of the professors of the medical Faculty of Breslau after the expulsion 1945/46].

The University of Breslau was one of the most important universities in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. Breslau was the capital of the state of Silesia which became Polish territory. The university was closed after World War II.

The exodus of German dermatologists and their contributions to their adopted countries.

This study reviews the establishment of dermatology in Germany, the exodus of German dermatologists during the Third Reich, and their contribution to dermatology in the United States and European countries.

Intralesional recombinant interferon beta-1a in the treatment of basal cell carcinoma: results of an open-label multicentre study.

Although effective conventional therapies are available to treat basal cell carcinoma (BCC), undesirable side effects, including scarring, and in some cases permanent damage, often occur in problematic areas of the body, especially around the eyes, mouth, and cartilage of the nose and ears. In previous studies, intratumoural injection of recombinant interferon beta-1a (rIFN-beta-1a) has been shown to result in complete remission (CR) in 47% to 86% of patients with BETACC. The primary objective of the study was to determine the response rate to rIFN-beta-1a, in a larger BETACC patient population.