The management of urinary incontinence in residential and nursing homes for older people.

We assessed the management of urinary incontinence amongst older people in residential and nursing homes and examined strategies for continence care in the homes. A random sample of local authority and private residential and nursing homes was drawn from an earlier census of long-term care. Strategies for continence care, the standard of care provided and the need for more help were determined by means of a structured questionnaire and the observations of a continence adviser.

Long-term follow-up of habit retraining for bladder instability in elderly patients.

Sixty patients with detrusor instability were contacted 2 to 3 years after their initial diagnosis and treatment. When first treated, 40 had improved, nine were catheterized and the remainder were unchanged. By the time of the first outpatient appointment 1 month later, a further 6% had been catheterized and 26% had lost control.

Locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the breast without distant metastasis treated with multimodal therapies.

Locally advanced breast cancer has been treated with a variety of primary treatments with or without adjuvant therapies. This study combines radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery as a multimodal program for Stage III breast cancer. Radiation was started on day 1: 4600 rad were administered to the breast and 4500 rad were administered to the axilla and supraclavicular areas.