Should eloquence be taught as part of the undergraduate medical curriculum?

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The integration of the humanities into the medical curriculum over the past two decades has been widely adopted in the stream of communication usually within the realms of doctor-patient relationship.

FIT negative cancers: A right-sided problem? Implications for screening and whether iron deficiency anaemia has a role to play.

Introduction: Faecal Immunohistochemistry Testing (FIT) is recommended as an adjunct to guide referrals from Primary Care for individuals without rectal bleeding, who do not meet the suspected cancer pathway referral guidelines. It has largely replaced Faecal Occult Blood Testing.

Aims: To assess the specificity of FIT.

Salvage surgery for residual primary and locally recurrent anal squamous cell carcinoma after chemoradiotherapy in HIV-positive individuals.

Background: The treatment of anal cancer in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients-as in the general population-is primarily with chemoradiotherapy (CRT), and abdominoperineal resection of residual or recurrent primary disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent of residual primary disease and local recurrence as well as the outcome of salvage surgery after CRT for anal carcinoma in HIV-positive individuals.

Methods: We retrospectively studied HIV-positive anal carcinoma patients treated between February 1989 and November 2012 in a specialist London unit.