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Archive for October, 2011
Joe Elia • October 28th, 2011
The quadrivalent HPV vaccine was effective at preventing anal intraepithelial neoplasias in men who have sex with men, it was reported last week. The larger question is how to get it to young men before they become sexually active. We interview Dr. Joel Palefsky of UCSF, the first author on a paper in the [...]
Joe Elia • October 14th, 2011
Barrett’s esophagus no longer carries the promise of esophageal cancer that it seemed to, but it bears watching, especially in the first year after the finding, when most cancers are found. The first author of this week’s New England Journal of Medicine study tracking the progression of a finding of Barrett’s over a median [...]
Joe Elia • October 8th, 2011
A cluster of clear-cell adenocarcinomas of the vagina in young women led to the realization some 40 years ago that almost all their mothers had taken diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy — a drug in wide use in the early 1950s. In a follow-up to that drug disaster, researchers (including one of the authors of the [...]
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