PC-SPES is a potent eight-herb formulation sold directly to consumers; it has promising efficacy in the treatment of prostate cancer (CaP). The product induces a castrate status in most, if not all, men, resulting in a 50% or greater prostate-specific antigen reduction in the great majority of men with androgen-dependent CaP and in more than one half of the men with androgen-independent CaP. The duration of response is not yet clear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper we describe the design details of a system for protocol based non-clinical biomedical data-collection and reporting. This system permits the biomedical scientist to define one or more data-collection and analysis protocols dynamically into the system and then to cause these protocols to be executed on detached, mobile microprocessor-based work-stations. The system permits both keyboard and attached instrument data-collection as well as random animal assignment and study status reporting.
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