"Do you smoke?" - content and linguistic analysis of students' substance histories in simulated patient interviews.

Background: The use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs has considerable health consequences. Substance histories are often only incompletely taken in everyday clinical practice. When learning to take a medical history in medical school, one of the learning objectives is to inquire about consumption behavior.

The Combination of DNA Ploidy Status and PTEN/6q15 Deletions Provides Strong and Independent Prognostic Information in Prostate Cancer.

Purpose: Aberrant DNA content has been discussed as a potential prognostic feature in prostate cancer.

Experimental Design: We analyzed the clinical significance of DNA ploidy in combination with prognostic relevant deletions of PTEN and 6q15 in 3,845 prostate cancers.

Result: The DNA status was diploid in 67.