BMC Rushes With Samples as Mystery Fever Rings Alarm Bell in Bombay
The civic authorities of Mumbai are keeping a watchful eye as mystery fever claims// two lives recently. The cases reported recently say that the patients were rushed to hospital with "flu with paralysis" symptoms. The civic authorities are sending the fluid samples to competent laboratories in Pune ...Surgery, Radiation Treatment Double Life Expectancy for Prostate Cancer Patients
...s are beyond cure and should only be followed with watchful waiting, forestalling any immediate treatment. This new study points to the fallacy of this outlook, finding surgery and radiation more than double the life expectancy for these patients," says Dr. Ashutosh Tewari, the study's first author and direct...PSA Not a Good Predictor of Lethal Prostate Cancer
... watched for signs of progression, which is called watchful waiting. At the end of the follow-up in December 2003, 34 patients had died from prostate cancer, and 18 had developed metastatic prostate cancer but were still alive. Although initial PSA values and the rate of change were associated with later de...Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?
... of further infection after 90 days, compared with watchful waiting. But despite these promising results, an...-up period was relatively short, and people in the watchful waiting group reported improvement during the trial period, says Paul Little, Professor of Primary C...Early Prostate Cancer: Specialty of Physician Influences Type of Therapy Received
...There are no physical side effects associated with watchful waiting....Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?
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