The Hardest Job in Medicine

abstract: Application of Screening Principles to the Reconstructed Breast (and ovarian cancer women/prophylactic sugeries??)

Aortic Stiffness Increases Upon Receipt of Anthracycline Chemotherapy

cardiovascular risk

Clinical and pathological analysis of 8 hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer pedigrees (China patients/families)

note: age < 40 yrs

Lynch syndrome among gynecologic oncology patients meeting Bethesda guidelines for screening

"Our findings reinforce the recommendation that women diagnosed with endometrial cancer before the age of 45 years and women with synchronous endometrial and ovarian cancer be screened for LS, irrespective of family history."

Anthropometric Measures and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Results From the Nurses' Health Study

Anthropometric: understanding human physical variation

Consolidation hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy using paclitaxel in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer

Ohio Hospital Program Increases Interaction Between Nurses, Patients

"In October 2008, staff members at Riverside Methodist Hospital (RMH) in Columbus, OH, approached Sheryl Tripp, MSN, RN-BC, nurse manager for the gynecology/gynecology-oncology (gyn/gyn-onc) surgical unit, in hopes of changing the way nurses were issuing patient reports."

Longwoods Healthcare Blog: “What Do Patients Want? A Critical Look at Healthcare Delivery in Canada”

"But the debate, like the health system itself, has been dominated largely by vested interests. I’m watching it, just like you do, from afar. People like the insurance industry and dogmatists from all across the political spectrum – right and left. Rarely in that debate do we hear from patients, or more specifically, from patients without a political agenda or not hired by a group with a message to sell. Rarer still is to hear patients articulate what they want or expect from a health system. And that’s not unique to the US discussion; we have the same problem in Canada...."