[Endocrine Treatments in Breast Cancer].

Endocrine Treatments in Breast Cancer Breast cancer, the most common cancer in women, expresses estrogen and/or progesterone receptors in about 75% of patients. This allows for the use of endocrine treatments. Adjuvant therapy with tamoxifen for 5 years reduces the mortality by about 33%; the residual risk can be lowered by using aromatase inhibitors and by prolonging the treatment.

Outcome and Prognostic Factors of COVID-19 Infection in Swiss Cancer Patients: Final Results of SAKK 80/20 (CaSA).

Purpose: These are the final results of a national registry on cancer patients with COVID-19 in Switzerland. Methods: We collected data on symptomatic COVID-19-infected cancer patients from 23 Swiss sites over a one-year period starting on 1 March 2020. The main objective was to assess the outcome (i.

Non-traumatic spinal cord ischaemia in childhood - clinical manifestation, neuroimaging and outcome.

Background: Spinal cord ischaemia is rare in childhood and information on clinical presentation and outcome is scarce.

Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of eight patients and 75 additional cases from the literature. Data search included: patient's age, primary manifestation, risk factors, neuroimaging and outcome.