Breast Cancer Screening: An Overview of Risk-specific Screening and Risk Assessment.

Breast cancer screening decreases stage at diagnosis, treatment morbidity, and disease mortality. A comprehensive risk assessment is critical to determine an individual's most appropriate screening regimen. Multiple guidelines exist for screening mammography in average-risk individuals, which differ on age and frequency of screening.

Executive Summary of the Uterine Cancer Evidence Review Conference.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognized the need for educational materials for clinicians on the prevention and early diagnosis of gynecologic cancers. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists convened a panel of experts in evidence review from the Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology and content experts from the Society of Gynecologic Oncology to review relevant literature, best practices, and existing practice guidelines as a first step toward developing evidence-based educational materials for women's health care clinicians about uterine cancer. Panel members conducted structured literature reviews, which were then reviewed by other panel members and discussed at a virtual meeting of stakeholder professional and patient advocacy organizations in January 2021.

Health Disparities in Uterine Cancer: Report From the Uterine Cancer Evidence Review Conference.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognized the need for educational materials for clinicians on the prevention and early diagnosis of gynecologic cancers. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists convened a panel of experts in evidence review from the Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology and content experts from the Society of Gynecologic Oncology to review relevant literature, best practices, and existing practice guidelines for the development of evidence-based educational materials for women's health care clinicians about uterine cancer. This article is the evidence summary of the literature review of health disparities and inequities related to uterine cancer.

Inflammatory diseases of the breast.

Inflammatory disorders of the breast are common benign breast conditions. Lactational mastitis occurs in breastfeeding women and may be associated with breast abscess in severe cases. Non-lactational inflammatory disorders are less common and include idiopathic granulomatous mastitis, periductal mastitis, and tuberculous mastitis.

Improving compliance with guidelines for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy through an electronic health record alert: A retrospective chart review.

Objectives: Improve appropriate and timely administration of rapid acting antihypertensive medication for the management of hypertensive emergency in pregnancy with utilization of an automated electronic health record (EHR) alert in an academic birthplace.

Study Design: An automated alert was incorporated into an existing EHR that notified providers of a documented severe range blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≥ 160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ≥ 110 mmHg. Retrospective chart review was utilized to evaluate appropriate intervention before and after implementation of the alert (referred to as pre-implementation and post-implementation cohorts).

Executive Summary of the Early-Onset Breast Cancer Evidence Review Conference.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Bring Your Brave campaign to increase knowledge about early-onset breast cancer, defined as breast cancer in women aged 18-45 years. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists convened a panel of experts in breast disease from the Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology to review relevant literature, validated tools, best practices, and practice guidelines as a first step toward developing educational materials for women's health care providers about early-onset breast cancer. Panel members conducted structured literature reviews, which were then reviewed by other panel members and discussed at an in-person meeting of stakeholder professional and patient advocacy organizations in April 2019.

Young Women with Breast Cancer: Fertility Preservation Options and Management of Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer.

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy diagnosed in women of childbearing age. A breast cancer diagnosis in this young patient population can be uniquely complex to navigate when considering the potential impact of fertility loss associated with specific gonadotoxic therapies. Another unique challenge for young breast cancer patients is pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC), which occurs in approximately 1 of every 3000 pregnancies.

Sexual Behavior and Contraceptive Use at Brown University: 1975-2011.

Objective: To assess sexual behaviors and contraceptive use in a sample of Brown University students.

Study Design: A total of 255 undergraduate students responded to an anonymous online survey in May 2011. The survey addressed level of sexual activity, behaviors, and contraceptive use.

Impact of obesity on outcomes of hysterectomy.

Study Objectives: To evaluate the impact of obesity on complications of hysterectomy.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force II-2).

Setting: The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI.

Women presenting to an emergency facility with abnormal uterine bleeding: patient characteristics and prevalence of anemia.

Objective: To describe the population of women seeking urgent medical attention for abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), in terms of symptoms, medical history and clinical examination findings, and to determine characteristics associated with anemia in this population.

Study Design: We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients seen in the Women and Infants Hospital Emergency Room for AUB from August 2005 to February 2006 (n = 378). Data collected included demographic factors, clinical history, physical examination findings, and laboratory and radiologic findings.

THE EFFECT OF COPPER (II) ON SURVIVAL, RESPIRATION, AND HEART RATE IN THE COMMON BLUE MUSSEL, MYTILUS EDULIS.

1. The effects of Cu(II) on survival heart rate, and respiration in M. edulis have been determined.