A new study finds that many women with early breast cancer do not need a painful procedure that has long been routine: removal of cancerous lymph nodes from the armpit.
The discovery turns standard medical practice on its head. Surgeons have been removing lymph nodes from under the arms of ugg australia breast cancer patients for 100 years, believing it would prolong women’s lives by keeping the cancer from spreading or coming back.
Now, researchers report that for women who meet certain criteria — about 20 percent of patients, or 40,000 women a year in the United States — taking out cancerous nodes has no advantage. It does not change the treatment plan, improve survival or make the cancer less likely to recur. And it can cause complications like infection and lymphedema, a chronic swelling in the arm that ranges from mild to disabling.
Removing the cancerous lymph nodes proved unnecessary because the women in the study had chemotherapy and radiation, which probably wiped out any disease in the ugg australia nodes, the researchers said. Those treatments are now standard for women with breast cancer in the lymph nodes, based on the realization that once the disease reaches the nodes, it has the potential to spread to vital organs and cannot be eliminated by surgery alone.
Experts say that the new findings, combined with similar ones from earlier studies, should change medical practice for many patients. Some centers have already acted on the new information. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan changed its practice in September, because doctors knew the study results before they were published. But more widespread change may take time, experts say, because the UGG Nightfall belief in removing nodes is so deeply ingrained.
“This is such a radical change in thought that it’s been hard for many people to get their heads around it,” said Dr. Monica Morrow, chief of the breast service at Sloan-Kettering and an author of the study, which is being published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The National Cancer Institute paid for the study.
Doctors and patients alike find it easy to accept more cancer treatment on the basis of a study, Dr. Morrow said, but get scared when the data favor less treatment.
The new findings are part of a trend to move away from radical surgery for breast cancer. Rates of mastectomy, removal of the whole breast, began declining in the 1980s after studies found that for many patients, survival rates after lumpectomy and radiation were just as good as those after mastectomy.
The trend reflects an evolving understanding of breast cancer. In decades past, there was a belief that surgery could “get it all” — eradicate the cancer before it could spread to organs and bones. But research has found that breast cancer can begin to spread early, even when UGG Nightfall tumors are small, leaving microscopic traces of the disease after surgery.
The modern approach is to cut out obvious tumors — because lumps big enough to detect may be too dense for drugs and radiation to destroy — and to use radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out microscopic disease in other places.
But doctors have continued to think that even microscopic disease in the lymph nodes should be cut out to improve the odds of survival. And until recently, they counted cancerous lymph nodes to gauge the severity of the disease and choose chemotherapy. But now the number is not so often used to determine drug treatment, doctors say. What matters more is whether the disease has reached any MBT Tataga nodes at all. If any are positive, the disease could become deadly. Chemotherapy is recommended, and the drugs are the same, no matter how many nodes are involved.
The new results do not apply to all patients, only to women whose disease and treatment meet the criteria in the study.
The tumors were early, at clinical stage T1 or T2, meaning less than two inches across. Biopsies of one or two armpit nodes had found cancer, but the nodes were not enlarged enough to be felt during an exam, and the cancer had not spread anywhere else. The women had lumpectomies, and most also had radiation to the entire breast, and chemotherapy or hormone-blocking drugs, or both.
The study, at 115 medical centers, included 891 patients. Their median age was in the mid-50s, and they were followed for a median of 6.3 years.
After the initial node biopsy, the women were assigned at random to have 10 or more additional nodes removed, or to leave the nodes alone. In 27 percent of the women who had additional nodes removed, those nodes were cancerous. But over time, the two groups had no difference in survival: more than 90 percent survived at least five years. Recurrence rates in the armpit were also similar MBT Tembea, less than 1 percent. If breast cancer is going to recur under the arm, it tends to do so early, so the follow-up period was long enough, the researchers said.
One potential weakness in the study is that there was not complete follow-up information on 166 women, about equal numbers from each group. The researchers said that did not affect the results. A statistician who was not part of the study said the missing information should have been discussed further, but probably did not have an important impact.
It is not known whether the findings also apply to women who do not have radiation and chemotherapy, or to those who have only part of the breast irradiated. Nor is it known whether the findings could be applied to other types of cancer.
The results mean that women like those in the study will still have to have at least one lymph node removed, to look for cancer and decide whether they will need more MBT sport 2 shoes treatment. But taking out just one or a few nodes should be enough.
Dr. Armando E. Giuliano, the lead author of the study and the chief of surgical oncology at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., said: “It shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but it will. It’s hard for us as surgeons and medical oncologists and radiation oncologists to accept that you don’t have to remove the nodes in the armpit.”
2011年2月7日星期一
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The lawyers face the same challenges any business does. To get new businesses have to market their services, namely advertising. And treat lawyers with the same campaign and challenge all advertising companies - such as beating the competition. In addition, lawyers have to assume that any marketing or Internet advertising on the Internet or doing well, may yield little or nothing for the amount of ugg boots and money spent - regardless of what a marketing consultant or advertising outside may say otherwise.
Before the Internet the main option Internet marketing or online advertising option for any lawyer to advertise in the yellow pages. To date print yellow pages contain a lot of colors, a display ad page that have attorneys who offer their services, and lawyers pay a lot for these ads. The effectiveness of these ads is anybody's guess - it is difficult for color, one ad displaying the support page if you have 20 other lawyers doing exactly the same! The yellow pages companies, however, continue to promote its ugg australia and advertising philosophy "bigger is always better" and "everything we sell is an opportunity," so often have a lawyer with a market that is not Internet and advertising solution that costs a lot but there is often little.
This line of thought, along with the use of print yellow pages has generally gone the way of the dinosaurs at a phenomenal pace. The yellow pages in printed form had its heyday during many decades, but the population now goes to the Internet for information seeking, so most of the print directories are gathering dust. A lawyer who advertises in the Yellow Pages print and receive nike blazers shoes, but more likely is that vendors with the Yellow Pages as a source of cheap cables.
The leading provider of paid search (pay per click search engines) tend to offer Internet marketing lawyers and advertising solutions in a manner similar to the way the yellow pages to do with their print directories. "Bigger is always better", so instead of realistic talk to a lawyer pay per click internet marketing and advertising campaign that makes financial sense and produces a decent return on investment, payment made by suppliers Click tells the lawyer to go over the list above many keywords (most expensive) as its budget and will bid as high as possible. The lawyer can go broke in the process, but at least you will have exposure UGG Nightfall! Many lawyers enter into pay-per-click as a quick way to get leads, but quickly leaves a month later, after spending lots of money for Internet marketing and advertising results they produce rather than spending.
While pay per click internet marketing and advertising is the favorite for the operation of Internet marketing advertisers around the world, pay per click advertising by a lawyer is usually an expensive proposition for what are . How much does a lawyer is willing to "pay for an advantage of" takes on new meaning with pay per click. The cost per click keywords related attorney many, for example, "personal injury lawyer," "criminal defense attorney," can range from $ 5.00 to $ 70.00 per click depending on the market, and when the typical lawyer fee conversion (number of clicks needed to generate an edge) of one or two percent is taken into account, the attorney can find yourself paying more than $ 500.00 to $ 7,000.00 per lead, and an advantage is not a customer.
Part of the problem lawyers face when working with pay per click (and this translates directly into the conversion rates of the poor) is that (1) who spend little time setting up your pay per click ads and ( 2) ads to drive traffic to the Air jordan 1 shoeswebsite of the attorney. All Internet marketing professional who knows something about the pay per click you know to never pay per click traffic to a website. Instead of creating special pages, ie "landing pages" to pay for every click that directs traffic. Landing pages do the job of convincing traffic to do what the lawyer requires, typically to contact the attorney via e-mail or telephone.
Before the Internet the main option Internet marketing or online advertising option for any lawyer to advertise in the yellow pages. To date print yellow pages contain a lot of colors, a display ad page that have attorneys who offer their services, and lawyers pay a lot for these ads. The effectiveness of these ads is anybody's guess - it is difficult for color, one ad displaying the support page if you have 20 other lawyers doing exactly the same! The yellow pages companies, however, continue to promote its ugg australia and advertising philosophy "bigger is always better" and "everything we sell is an opportunity," so often have a lawyer with a market that is not Internet and advertising solution that costs a lot but there is often little.
This line of thought, along with the use of print yellow pages has generally gone the way of the dinosaurs at a phenomenal pace. The yellow pages in printed form had its heyday during many decades, but the population now goes to the Internet for information seeking, so most of the print directories are gathering dust. A lawyer who advertises in the Yellow Pages print and receive nike blazers shoes, but more likely is that vendors with the Yellow Pages as a source of cheap cables.
The leading provider of paid search (pay per click search engines) tend to offer Internet marketing lawyers and advertising solutions in a manner similar to the way the yellow pages to do with their print directories. "Bigger is always better", so instead of realistic talk to a lawyer pay per click internet marketing and advertising campaign that makes financial sense and produces a decent return on investment, payment made by suppliers Click tells the lawyer to go over the list above many keywords (most expensive) as its budget and will bid as high as possible. The lawyer can go broke in the process, but at least you will have exposure UGG Nightfall! Many lawyers enter into pay-per-click as a quick way to get leads, but quickly leaves a month later, after spending lots of money for Internet marketing and advertising results they produce rather than spending.
While pay per click internet marketing and advertising is the favorite for the operation of Internet marketing advertisers around the world, pay per click advertising by a lawyer is usually an expensive proposition for what are . How much does a lawyer is willing to "pay for an advantage of" takes on new meaning with pay per click. The cost per click keywords related attorney many, for example, "personal injury lawyer," "criminal defense attorney," can range from $ 5.00 to $ 70.00 per click depending on the market, and when the typical lawyer fee conversion (number of clicks needed to generate an edge) of one or two percent is taken into account, the attorney can find yourself paying more than $ 500.00 to $ 7,000.00 per lead, and an advantage is not a customer.
Part of the problem lawyers face when working with pay per click (and this translates directly into the conversion rates of the poor) is that (1) who spend little time setting up your pay per click ads and ( 2) ads to drive traffic to the Air jordan 1 shoeswebsite of the attorney. All Internet marketing professional who knows something about the pay per click you know to never pay per click traffic to a website. Instead of creating special pages, ie "landing pages" to pay for every click that directs traffic. Landing pages do the job of convincing traffic to do what the lawyer requires, typically to contact the attorney via e-mail or telephone.
2011年1月25日星期二
Beautiful Life Starts From Ugg Sale Online
You and I learned in school that freedom of speech is a fundamental right that all people should enjoy. There's a practical reason for that. Without freedom of speech, governments and other moneyed interests would be in a position to abuse their power even more than they already do. And obviously voters need uncensored ugg boots in order to shape their government. Democracy only works when citizens and the media enjoy freedom of speech.
But what if freedom of speech is only a benefit in a democratic system?
China's system, as I have written before, reminds me more of a corporate structure, or a meritocracy. In a corporation, you're generally free to disagree with higher ups if you do it with data, and in a professional manner. Usually you need to go through proper channels, but dissent is generally allowed, and sometimes actively encouraged. If you're a jerk about your disagreement with your UGG Classic Cardy 5819, or you don't have persuasive data to back up position, you could get fired. But that's a stupidity issue, not a freedom issue.
China's leadership is packed with engineers and lawyers by training. I imagine that like any corporation, they appreciate the value of information when presented in a professional manner, and through proper channels. Unlike elected politicians, managers in a meritocracy are free to change position as new or better data emerges. The advantage of having only one political party is that everyone is on the same team. And if effectiveness is the goal, which apparently it is in China, I assume that new data is generally welcome.
An American politician is likely to lose his next election if he "flip flops" on an issue, even if the reason for the change is that new information has emerged. In that environment, practical politicians simply take the position that their party has established, confident that the free media will present both sides of every argument regardless of where the data leads. A free UGG Nightfall has the perverse effect of increasing the volume of information while simultaneously reducing its usefulness.
A free press is also a huge distraction. I would imagine that at least half of all the time and effort our elected officials put into their jobs has something to do with managing the media. Compare that to a corporate system in which managers are also concerned with image, but they focus most of their energy on getting the job done. I imagine that Chinese leaders have a similar MBT Tembea to act in accordance with data. And I imagine they spend little or no time worrying about how the media will treat them, since they control it.
What about the jailing of dissidents in China? On a human level, it certainly feels wrong to imprison someone simply for speaking out. It feels even more wrong when the dissident's only goal is to improve the lives of his or her fellow citizens. And it seems pure evil if the dissident has valid criticisms.
But what if the dissidents themselves are the ones who have it wrong? Suppose a dissident is stirring up public emotions in a direction that could be detrimental to the interests of a billion fellow citizens? Suppose, for example, the dissident is agitating for freedom of speech, a right that would be fitting for a Air Jordan, but would be nothing but trouble - perhaps serious trouble - in the Chinese system. In that case, should the Chinese leadership value the freedom of this one individual over the wellbeing of a billion others? What would Spock say?
I'd like to be perfectly clear that I know almost nothing about the Chinese system, and absolutely nothing about any particular dissidents. My emotional reaction is that no one should be in jail for voicing an opinion. But the rational side of me doesn't have any data to support the Jimmy choo shoes that the Chinese people would be better off with complete freedom of speech, especially since we know that free speech encourages leaders to ignore data.
America has freedom of speech. China has freedom of data. Where do you place your bet?
But what if freedom of speech is only a benefit in a democratic system?
China's system, as I have written before, reminds me more of a corporate structure, or a meritocracy. In a corporation, you're generally free to disagree with higher ups if you do it with data, and in a professional manner. Usually you need to go through proper channels, but dissent is generally allowed, and sometimes actively encouraged. If you're a jerk about your disagreement with your UGG Classic Cardy 5819, or you don't have persuasive data to back up position, you could get fired. But that's a stupidity issue, not a freedom issue.
China's leadership is packed with engineers and lawyers by training. I imagine that like any corporation, they appreciate the value of information when presented in a professional manner, and through proper channels. Unlike elected politicians, managers in a meritocracy are free to change position as new or better data emerges. The advantage of having only one political party is that everyone is on the same team. And if effectiveness is the goal, which apparently it is in China, I assume that new data is generally welcome.
An American politician is likely to lose his next election if he "flip flops" on an issue, even if the reason for the change is that new information has emerged. In that environment, practical politicians simply take the position that their party has established, confident that the free media will present both sides of every argument regardless of where the data leads. A free UGG Nightfall has the perverse effect of increasing the volume of information while simultaneously reducing its usefulness.
A free press is also a huge distraction. I would imagine that at least half of all the time and effort our elected officials put into their jobs has something to do with managing the media. Compare that to a corporate system in which managers are also concerned with image, but they focus most of their energy on getting the job done. I imagine that Chinese leaders have a similar MBT Tembea to act in accordance with data. And I imagine they spend little or no time worrying about how the media will treat them, since they control it.
What about the jailing of dissidents in China? On a human level, it certainly feels wrong to imprison someone simply for speaking out. It feels even more wrong when the dissident's only goal is to improve the lives of his or her fellow citizens. And it seems pure evil if the dissident has valid criticisms.
But what if the dissidents themselves are the ones who have it wrong? Suppose a dissident is stirring up public emotions in a direction that could be detrimental to the interests of a billion fellow citizens? Suppose, for example, the dissident is agitating for freedom of speech, a right that would be fitting for a Air Jordan, but would be nothing but trouble - perhaps serious trouble - in the Chinese system. In that case, should the Chinese leadership value the freedom of this one individual over the wellbeing of a billion others? What would Spock say?
I'd like to be perfectly clear that I know almost nothing about the Chinese system, and absolutely nothing about any particular dissidents. My emotional reaction is that no one should be in jail for voicing an opinion. But the rational side of me doesn't have any data to support the Jimmy choo shoes that the Chinese people would be better off with complete freedom of speech, especially since we know that free speech encourages leaders to ignore data.
America has freedom of speech. China has freedom of data. Where do you place your bet?
2011年1月12日星期三
Predatory Lenders
I watched the candidates for Vice President debating last night. Sarah Palin said the credit problem was caused by predatory lending. In other words, the evil banks made loans to people who didn't have good credit.
This raises an interesting question: What did the lenders know about the borrowers that the borrowers did not know about themselves?
In theory, the people who got loans from the so-called predators had enough monthly income to pay the mortgage plus their other living expenses. The real risk was that the MBT Tupu would become sick, unemployed, unlucky, or irresponsible. Apparently we expect lenders to be better judges of the strangers asking for loans than the would-be borrowers are of themselves. How did the conversation between lender and borrower go in the old days, before predatory lending?
Banker: "Well, Billy Bob, you can afford this loan now, but based on that dumbass hat you're wearing, I give you two weeks before you drink a case of beer and drive your Chevy into a silo."
If a potential borrower has the monthly income to repay a loan, how much external risk should the banker accept? I think it's somewhere in the 2% range. In other words, a good nike air jordan 1 should turn down a loan for someone who has a 2% or greater chance of being doomed during the early years of the mortgage, before any equity has built up.
Lenders should be required to assign a doom factor to all loan applicants, like a fortune teller. It would be interesting to know, for example, that Wells Fargo has assigned a 20% doom factor to you. Then you could find out on the same day that you aren't going to own a house, and you have a 1-in-5 chance of becoming a hobo by 2010.
In one of my earlier career incarnations I was a banker. My job for a few years included reviewing and approving commercial loans for doctors and dentists. One day I declined a loan application for a dentist who, according to his recent tax returns, didn't have enough cash flow to repay the UGG Nightfall. My boss at the time reviewed my work and turned the decline into an approval without even looking at the financials. When I asked why, he explained that the borrower had a Chinese name. I questioned the wisdom of this lending procedure and he directed me to the files of delinquent borrowers, challenging me to find any Chinese names in there. There weren't any. I'm not judging, just telling you what happened.
Lenders should be required to assign a doom factor to all loan applicants, like a fortune teller. It would be interesting to know, for example, that Wells Fargo has assigned a 20% doom factor to you. Then you could find out on the same day that you aren't going to own a house, and you have a 1-in-5 Jimmy choo shoes chance of becoming a hobo by 2010.
In one of my earlier career incarnations I was a banker. My job for a few years included reviewing and approving commercial loans for doctors and dentists. One day I declined a loan application for a dentist who, according to his recent tax returns, didn't have enough cash flow to repay the loan. My boss at the time reviewed my work and turned the decline into an approval without even looking at the financials. When I asked why, he explained that the borrower had a Chinese name. I questioned the wisdom of this lending vibram barefoot shoes and he directed me to the files of delinquent borrowers, challenging me to find any Chinese names in there. There weren't any. I'm not judging, just telling you what happened.
This raises an interesting question: What did the lenders know about the borrowers that the borrowers did not know about themselves?
In theory, the people who got loans from the so-called predators had enough monthly income to pay the mortgage plus their other living expenses. The real risk was that the MBT Tupu would become sick, unemployed, unlucky, or irresponsible. Apparently we expect lenders to be better judges of the strangers asking for loans than the would-be borrowers are of themselves. How did the conversation between lender and borrower go in the old days, before predatory lending?
Banker: "Well, Billy Bob, you can afford this loan now, but based on that dumbass hat you're wearing, I give you two weeks before you drink a case of beer and drive your Chevy into a silo."
If a potential borrower has the monthly income to repay a loan, how much external risk should the banker accept? I think it's somewhere in the 2% range. In other words, a good nike air jordan 1 should turn down a loan for someone who has a 2% or greater chance of being doomed during the early years of the mortgage, before any equity has built up.
Lenders should be required to assign a doom factor to all loan applicants, like a fortune teller. It would be interesting to know, for example, that Wells Fargo has assigned a 20% doom factor to you. Then you could find out on the same day that you aren't going to own a house, and you have a 1-in-5 chance of becoming a hobo by 2010.
In one of my earlier career incarnations I was a banker. My job for a few years included reviewing and approving commercial loans for doctors and dentists. One day I declined a loan application for a dentist who, according to his recent tax returns, didn't have enough cash flow to repay the UGG Nightfall. My boss at the time reviewed my work and turned the decline into an approval without even looking at the financials. When I asked why, he explained that the borrower had a Chinese name. I questioned the wisdom of this lending procedure and he directed me to the files of delinquent borrowers, challenging me to find any Chinese names in there. There weren't any. I'm not judging, just telling you what happened.
Lenders should be required to assign a doom factor to all loan applicants, like a fortune teller. It would be interesting to know, for example, that Wells Fargo has assigned a 20% doom factor to you. Then you could find out on the same day that you aren't going to own a house, and you have a 1-in-5 Jimmy choo shoes chance of becoming a hobo by 2010.
In one of my earlier career incarnations I was a banker. My job for a few years included reviewing and approving commercial loans for doctors and dentists. One day I declined a loan application for a dentist who, according to his recent tax returns, didn't have enough cash flow to repay the loan. My boss at the time reviewed my work and turned the decline into an approval without even looking at the financials. When I asked why, he explained that the borrower had a Chinese name. I questioned the wisdom of this lending vibram barefoot shoes and he directed me to the files of delinquent borrowers, challenging me to find any Chinese names in there. There weren't any. I'm not judging, just telling you what happened.
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