Pretreatment nomogram predicting ten-year biochemical outcome of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

Objectives: To update our previously published nomogram predicting for biochemical outcome with 10-year data from a larger cohort of patients treated with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (RT) or intensity-modulated RT for localized prostate cancer.

Methods: From 1988 to 2004, 2253 patients were treated with three-dimensional conformal RT or intensity-modulated RT for clinical Stage T1-T3 prostate cancer. Prescription doses ranged from 64.

Women's experiences of vaginal examinations in labour.

Objective: To investigate women's perceptions of their experiences of vaginal examinations in labour.

Design: A prospective, analytic survey design using anonymised, self-completion, postal questionnaires.

Setting: A multi-centre study conducted in 2002 in three midwifery units in Cambridgeshire, England.

Acupuncture for postchemotherapy fatigue: a phase II study.

Purpose: To determine whether improvement in postchemotherapy fatigue following acupuncture treatment is substantial enough to warrant a controlled trial.

Patients And Methods: We accrued patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who had completed cytotoxic chemotherapy but experienced persisting fatigue. Patients with severe anemia, clinical depression, or Karnofsky performance status score less than 70 were excluded.

Differential bacteriology in adenoid disease.

In order to define the differential bacteriology in adenoid disease, adenoids were obtained from 10 children with adenoid hypertrophy and 29 children with chronic adenoiditis. The patients' ages ranged from 18 months to 13 years. After removal of the adenoids, the surface organisms were destroyed by alcohol and flame disinfection.

Malignant nasopharyngeal tumors in children.

From 1964 to 1984, 25 children with malignant tumors of the nasopharynx were seen, and their progress was followed at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Two types of malignancies: rhabdomyosarcoma and lymphoepithelioma were most prevalent with eight cases apiece. The presenting signs and symptoms were related to local and/or regional manifestations of disease.