Colorectal cancer survivorship care plans: Variations in documentation and posttreatment surveillance recommendations.

Background: Survivorship care plans (SCP) should outline pertinent information about cancer treatment and follow-up.

Methods: We descriptively analyzed the content of 74 colorectal cancer SCPs completed as part of a randomized, controlled trial of SCPs at an academic and community cancer center. Surveillance recommendations were compared with American Cancer Society, American Society of Clinical Oncology and National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines.

Platelets as an innate defence mechanism against Schistosoma mansoni infections in mice.

The interaction between Schistosoma mansoni and platelets of non-immune mice has been studied in vivo and in vitro. A moderate thrombocytopaenia was observed in mice 2 days after they had been infected percutaneously with 200 cercariae. A rabbit anti-mouse platelet antiserum, 25 microL of which injected subcutaneously induced a nearly 900% reduction in blood platelet count 24 h later, was used to investigate the effects of severe thrombocytopaenia on S.