Changes in sleep and wake in response to different sleeping surfaces: a pilot study.

Six married couples (12 adults, mean age 34.8 years) were randomized as couples in a cross-over design to sleep on a queen-size conventional mattress for 2 weeks and a specially-designed pressure-relief mattress for 2 weeks. The pressure-relief mattress was designed to reduce the number of contact points exceeding 30 mm Hg.

Twenty-year follow-up of the breast cancers diagnosed during the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project.

This study reports on the 20-year follow-up of the women diagnosed with breast cancer in the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project (BCDDP) between 1973 and 1980. This project provided 5 years of screening with physical examination and two-view mammography for 280,000 volunteer women across the United States. Based on a 96% follow-up from 1993 to 1995 of the 4,051 women with breast cancer available for analysis, 2,658 (66%) were alive and 1,393 (34%) were dead.

Twenty-year review of a breast cancer screening project. Ninety-five percent survival of patients with nonpalpable cancers.

Background: In 1973, the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project at the Georgia Baptist Medical Center began screening supposedly asymptomatic women for breast cancer. The project has been reviewed and now 20 years later, the follow-up of those women with detected cancer who were matched with a group of the original cohort with negative screens is reported. Early criticism of the project was its "lead-time bias," which, after 20 years, should pose no problem.

Twenty-year follow-up breast screening project.

Routine yearly breast screening with mammograms and physical examination can usually detect very small nonpalpable cancers that have a high survival rate. Routine breast screening with mammography and physical examination of asymptomatic women is the best method of controlling breast cancer at present.

Colorectal and gynecological malignancies: comparison of B72.3 monoclonal antibody imaging, CT, and serum tumor antigens.

Noninvasive B72.3 monoclonal antibody imaging provides beneficial information that may influence therapeutic and surgical decisions, and may clarify other clinical, laboratory, and CT scan findings. Intraoperative localization of tumor sites with a hand-held gamma probe holds promise as a further advantage of this technique.

Routine breast screening for cancer.

Breast screening for cancer has increased the survival for women over age 50 as well as those younger than 50 years old. The 13-year average follow-up period disproves the claim that the survival gain is due to lead-time bias. The information brought forth in this presentation proves that higher-risk women must be screened in order to reduce the constant death rate from breast cancer.

Routine breast screening. Survival after 10.5 years follow-up.

Beginning in 1973, the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project at Georgia Baptist Medical Center screened 8058 supposedly asymptomatic volunteers. Those screenees found to have cancer were treated by various surgeons, using all types of treatment with varying expertise. There has been 100% follow-up after 10.

Five-year-plus survival of breast screenees.

Seven years have elapsed since the first group of screenees were examined in the Georgia Baptist Medical Center (BCDDP). Of 8058 women studied, 135 had cancer. Forty-five percent of the tumors were found by x-ray alone.

The treatment of nonpalpable carcinoma of the breast.

Screening programs have discovered an increasing number of non-palpable breast cancers. There are several methods of locating these lesions by measuring the distance from the nipple and either excising an adequate margin around the measured point or more accurately locating it with a needle and further x-rays. The lesion, one excised, should be submitted for specimen radiography and compared with the mammogram to ascertain that the lesion has been excised.

The value of breast screening in women less than fifty years of age.

In the four years our Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project has been receiving patients, 5,810 women under the age of fifty have been examined. Our findings definitely indicate screening of asymptomatic women by xeromammography is of advantage in this group whose greatest cause of death is cancer of the breast; 71.8% of their cancers were found by xeromammography.

Surgical management of carotid body tumor.

Carotid body tumor or chemodectoma is a slow-growing lesion; it should be diagnosed early to facilitate the technical surgical resection. When these lesions are large, the routine use of a carotid internal bypass shunt is advocated for their safe removal. With the newer vascular approaches, specifically the carotid internal bypass shunt, resection can be performed with acceptable risks.