[Clomiphene acetate and prednisone: alternative approach for the management of patients with chronic anovulation and clomiphene treatment failure].

Chronic anovulation is a common neuroendocrine cause of infertility. Pharmacological management of such condition includes the use of clomiphen citrate (CC), which is the most utilized of the ovulation inductors. Clinical efficacy of CC provides ovulation rates of around 70%.

[Evolution of breast cancer. A 5-year clinical experience at a city hospital].

In order to clarify the role that some epidemiologic factor might have on the clinical evolution of breast cancer, a retrospective study was conducted. Seventy six women diagnosed with breast cancer were selected from the population of the Hospital de Ginecobstetricia 3 del Centro Medico Nacional "La Raza" del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, from 1985 to 1990. Age, medical and family history, clinical onset, diagnosis, treatment, evolution and clinical status at present were analyzed.