paywalled Primary fallopian tube carcinoma risk in users of postmenopausal hormone therapy in Finland

Primary fallopian tube carcinoma risk in users of postmenopausal hormone therapy in Finland: Publication year: 2012

Source:Gynecologic Oncology

Objective Primary fallopian tube carcinoma (PFTC) is a rare malignancy and only sparse data exist on its possible association with postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT). We therefore studied this association in a nationwide cohort of Finnish HT users.

Conclusions The long-term, sequential use of EPT associates with an increased risk for PFTC. In absolute terms, 4 additional cases of PFTC would be detected in 10-year follow-up of 10,000 women who have used EPT for at least 5 years

Debate Over Who Should Be Allowed to Administer Anesthesia Moves to Courts - NYTimes.com

Debate Over Who Should Be Allowed to Administer Anesthesia Moves to Courts - NYTimes.com

Family history: Still relevant in the genomics era - Cleveland Clinic

Family history: Still relevant in the genomics era

 Key points

• The family history is an underused tool for predicting the risk of disease and for personalizing preventive care.
• Barriers to the appropriate collection and use of the family history include concerns over the reliability of patient reporting, a lack of time and reimbursement, and provider knowledge gaps.
• Use of family history to inform genetic testing for hereditary cancer syndromes has been shown to improve outcomes and may reduce overall health care costs.
• Future solutions need to focus on creating time-effective ways to collect and analyze the family history, and on developing innovative methods of educating medical providers at all levels of training as to how to apply the family history in clinical practice. 

Study Downplays Risk of CT Scans - MedicineNet

Blogger's Note: cancer patients know this; the concern is 'excess' or unnecessary scans (as indicated in the article)

Study Downplays Risk of CT Scans - MedicineNet

"More often than not, patients should be getting that CT scan because the risk of the underlying cause is higher than from radiation."

"...The findings were similar -- with deaths ranging from 2 percent to 33 percent -- in the more than 15,000 who got abdominal CTs. The researchers think 23 people in the entire group would have gotten cancer due to radiation exposure."

""In the patients getting 15 or more scans, all of them had pretty significant disease, where their expected mortality was likely to occur much sooner than the chances of the radiation-induced cancer taking effect," Zondervan said. In other words: Those who were the sickest, requiring the most CT scans, would probably die before any cancer caused by the CT radiation could start hurting them."