�UroToday.com - This article, recently published in the online publication of European Urology, highly-developed standard reporting methodology to define the type, incidence, and severity of early postoperative morbidities following radical cystectomy.
Between 1995 and 2005, 1142 consecutive radical cystectomy patients were entered into a prospective complication database and retrospectively reviewed for accuracy. All patients underwent RC/urinary diversion by high-volume fellowship-trained urologic oncologists. Complications were measured within the first 90 days of operation Complications were defined and stratified into 11 specific categories. Using these categories, 64% of patients experienced a complication. Among patients experiencing a complication, 67% experienced a complication during the surgical hospital entrance money and 58% following expel. Eighty-seven pct of complications were tier 1 or 2 and did non require surgical intervention. Gastrointestinal complications were most common (29%), followed by infectious complications (25%) and wound-related complications (15%). The 30-day mortality rate was 1.5%.
These authors hold helped define a consistent complication marking system that will allow comparison across institutions. Surgical morbidity following radical cystectomy is significant and, when strict coverage guidelines ar incorporated, higher than antecedently published. Accurate reporting of postoperative complications after RC is substantive for guidance patients, combined modality intervention planning, clinical trial excogitation, and judgment of surgical success.
Shabsigh A, Kurtas R, Vora KC, Brook CM, Cronin AM, Savage C, Raj G, Bochner BH, Dalbagni G, Herr HW, Donat SM
Eur Urol. 2008 Jul 18. Epub ahead of print.
Reported by UroToday.com Contributing Editor David P. Wood, MD
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Friday, 22 August 2008
The Beverly Hills Kids Are Back
School�s back in session in America�s most renowned zip codification, with a whole new cast of sexy edward Young characters. OK! spent some time getting to know the most recent group of characters to call 90210 home.
CLICK HERE for OK!'s exclusive photoshoot with the newfangled cast!
Shenae Grimes, 18, plays Annie, the sweet, innocent Brenda Walsh-type character but recently arrived in Beverly Hills by way of the Midwest.
�Annie is transferring from Kansas City to West Beverly,� Shenae tells OK!. �The big thing with Annie is the transition and her trying to fit in.�
The All-American heartthrob is played by Dustin Grimes as popular, sporty Ethan, a mix between Brandon Walsh and Steve Sanders, the popular, sporty guy rope with a few skeletons in his closet.
�Ethan is the asterisk athlete of the schooling, but he's not your typical athlete,� says Dustin, 23. �He's a guy who's perceived to be the top of the school, but it's really non the pillow slip behind closed doors.�
The draw is rounded out by Jessica Stroup as Silver, the free spirit with her have YouTube usher; Michael Steger as Navid, the high school journalist; Annalyne McCord as fashionista Naomi and Tristan Wilds as Dixon, the scholarly athlete.
Still devoted to Kelly and Brenda? Keep your eyes peeled for some of your deary cast members from the original Beverly Hills, 90210 � you never cognize who might show up to teach these kids a affair or iI!
For more than of the new 90210 cast, check out OK!'s exclusive picture gallery.
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo Buys �340,000 Rolls Royce
Cristiano Ronaldo has splattered out a whopping �340,000 ($680k) on a new Rolls Royce to celebrate his decision to stay at Manchester United.
The 23-year-old, world Health Organization angered United fans by courting a move to Real Madrid, has ordered a flash Phantom convertible.
A source tells British newspaper publisher The Sun, "The car will be the flashiest at United's training ground.
"Ronaldo will be going one better than Rio Ferdinand's Bentley.
"He loves his cars and cherished something new for the start of the season."
Ronaldo also owns an Aston Martin, a BMW 6 Series and a Ferrari. His modish purchase volition replace his �140,000 ($280k) Bentley Continental.
Ronaldo consistent the sumptuosity motor through an elite group car firm called Liquid 45.
He gave instructions for it to be "amply loaded," a trade term for all the added extras.
Other Phantom owners include American Idol judge Simon Cowell and LA Galaxy soccer
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Felix Maria Woschek and Friends
Artist: Felix Maria Woschek and Friends
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Gospodi
Year: 1998
Tracks: 3
So Ham Sai Love
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Hip-hop rings true at Comcast Center bash
There�s a war on the contemporaneous rap landscape. On one side, neon-shoed hipster-hoppers with vapid rhymes and electric beats have dance floors cranking. On the former, lyric-heavy veterans with nice deliveries keep mature fans nodding heads.
For this year�s Rock the Bells, organizers married the polarized segments with a 10-hour hollapalooza on iI stages yesterday at the Comcast Center in Mansfield. Outside, Chicago and Baltimore booty united Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing were represented by the likes of Spank Rock and the Cool Kids. Inside, the sweetest lineup in live hip-hop history conjured deuce decades of the genre�s mightiest achievements.
The overall plan failed. Despite positive intentions, stage deuce was drastically unpopular. Even the effort at juxtaposing new with old by having boom bap designer Afrika Bambaataa DJ outside fell flat; few mass were unforced to miss headliners for him or for the hysterically hyped Spank Rock.
Inside, Rakim came through with DJ Kid Capri to bless the droves of older mike fiends on hand. The divide amongst concertgoers was evident, though; most young cats were completely unfamiliar with the man who�s often cited as the greatest MC of all time.
Wu-Tang statesmen Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, as they say, murdered it. From �Rainy Dayz� to �Ice Cream,� �C.R.E.A.M.� and �Daytona 500,� the couple proved it�s still rhythmically connected.
After De La Soul mellowed out the party, Redman emerged. The New Jersey congresswoman was supposed to show with Method Man, just due to unexplained circumstances he came solo. Still, with help from iconic hype military personnel DJ Kool, Redman impressed enough to inspire kids to liberally lob joints and blunts onto the stage.
To poor fan response, Mos Def came out singing or else of riming. Thankfully, the
Breast Cancer Screening: Two Strategies Are Equally Effective
�An organized population-based tit cancer screening program in Norway and an approaching to screening that relies on mD and self-referrals in Vermont are as sensitive for detecting cancer, researchers paper in the July 29 online issuing of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. But the recall charge per unit for unnatural mammograms was lower in Norway.
Breast malignant neoplastic disease screening in the United States is usually initiated in reply to a physician's testimonial (known as "opportunistic screening"), and women are well-advised to have annual showing mammograms. By contrast, white meat cancer screening programs in Norway and in some other European countries regularly send letters to all women in a specific age range inviting them to have a screening mammogram. The Norway computer program aims for women to be screened every 2 years. The differences between the deuce approaches create it relatively difficult to compare their effectiveness, and few studies have aimed to do so previously.
In the current study, Berta Geller, Ed.D., of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Solveig Hofvind, Ph.D., of the Cancer Registry of Norway, and colleagues compared the screening approaches by looking at the percentage of women wHO were recalled for a re-evaluation, the screening detection rate of breast cancer, and the rate of interval cancers in 45,050 women in Vermont and 194,430 women in Norway from 1997 to 2003. Women included in the study were aged 50 to 69 years at the prison term of screening.
The age-adjusted screening detection pace of cancers was interchangeable between the two populations (2.77 per 1,000 woman-years in Vermont versus 2.57 in Norway), all the same, more than three times as many women were recalled in Vermont than in Norway (9.8 percent versus 2.7 percent, severally). The rate of interval cancers was higher in Vermont than in Norway (1.24 per 1,000 woman-years versus 0.86), and 55.9 percent of the separation cancers were 15 mm or littler in Vermont compared with 38.2 percent of the interval cancers in Norway. When all cancers detected during regular screening and between screening mammograms were combined, there were no substantial differences in the prognostic features of invasive cancers detected in the two populations.
The researchers conclude that although to the highest degree of the women in Vermont were screened doubly as oftentimes as the women in Norway, the overall rate of cancer detection was similar. Given the shorter interval betwixt screens, Geller and colleagues were surprised to find a higher interval cancer rate in the Vermont women and hypothesize that "Vermont women and/or their health care providers crataegus laevigata more readily pursue rating of symptoms and clinical findings than their Norwegian counterparts."
"Our results demonstrate that despite its longer screening interval, the organized population-based screening programme in Norway achieved similar outcomes as the timeserving screening in Vermont," the authors write.
Citation: Hofvind S, Vacek PM, Skelly J, Weaver DL, Geller BM. Comparing Screening Mammography for Early Breast Cancer Detection in Vermont and Norway. J Natl Cancer Inst 2008; 100:1082-1091
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute is promulgated by Oxford University Press and is not affiliated with the National Cancer Institute. Visit the Journal online at http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/.
Source: Liz Savage
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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Breast malignant neoplastic disease screening in the United States is usually initiated in reply to a physician's testimonial (known as "opportunistic screening"), and women are well-advised to have annual showing mammograms. By contrast, white meat cancer screening programs in Norway and in some other European countries regularly send letters to all women in a specific age range inviting them to have a screening mammogram. The Norway computer program aims for women to be screened every 2 years. The differences between the deuce approaches create it relatively difficult to compare their effectiveness, and few studies have aimed to do so previously.
In the current study, Berta Geller, Ed.D., of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Solveig Hofvind, Ph.D., of the Cancer Registry of Norway, and colleagues compared the screening approaches by looking at the percentage of women wHO were recalled for a re-evaluation, the screening detection rate of breast cancer, and the rate of interval cancers in 45,050 women in Vermont and 194,430 women in Norway from 1997 to 2003. Women included in the study were aged 50 to 69 years at the prison term of screening.
The age-adjusted screening detection pace of cancers was interchangeable between the two populations (2.77 per 1,000 woman-years in Vermont versus 2.57 in Norway), all the same, more than three times as many women were recalled in Vermont than in Norway (9.8 percent versus 2.7 percent, severally). The rate of interval cancers was higher in Vermont than in Norway (1.24 per 1,000 woman-years versus 0.86), and 55.9 percent of the separation cancers were 15 mm or littler in Vermont compared with 38.2 percent of the interval cancers in Norway. When all cancers detected during regular screening and between screening mammograms were combined, there were no substantial differences in the prognostic features of invasive cancers detected in the two populations.
The researchers conclude that although to the highest degree of the women in Vermont were screened doubly as oftentimes as the women in Norway, the overall rate of cancer detection was similar. Given the shorter interval betwixt screens, Geller and colleagues were surprised to find a higher interval cancer rate in the Vermont women and hypothesize that "Vermont women and/or their health care providers crataegus laevigata more readily pursue rating of symptoms and clinical findings than their Norwegian counterparts."
"Our results demonstrate that despite its longer screening interval, the organized population-based screening programme in Norway achieved similar outcomes as the timeserving screening in Vermont," the authors write.
Citation: Hofvind S, Vacek PM, Skelly J, Weaver DL, Geller BM. Comparing Screening Mammography for Early Breast Cancer Detection in Vermont and Norway. J Natl Cancer Inst 2008; 100:1082-1091
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute is promulgated by Oxford University Press and is not affiliated with the National Cancer Institute. Visit the Journal online at http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/.
Source: Liz Savage
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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Thursday, 3 July 2008
Mark Wahlberg - Wahlberg Sued By Ex-bodyguard
Movie star MARK WAHLBERG has been accused of failing to pay a former bodyguard for four years of work.
Leonard Taylor filed a $20,000 (GBP10,000) lawsuit in New York's Manhattan Civil Court this month (Jun08), alleging his former employer still owes him payment for work dating back to 2001.
The lawsuit is the second Taylor has lodged against the star.
In 2001, Wahlberg paid Taylor $5,000 (GBP2,500) in a court settlement after the star was accused of assault.
A spokesperson for Wahlberg refused to comment.
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