Nephrology
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Enzalutamide Prolongs Prostate Cancer Survival After Chemotherapy Fails
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Would Advanced Prostate Cancer Triple Without PSA Screening?
Major Finding: Based on data from the pre-PSA era, 25,000 men across the United States would be expected to present with metastatic cancer in 2008...
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Washington Post Blasts Proliferation of ESAs for Anemia
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Surgery Didn't Cut Mortality from PSA-Detected Prostate Cancer
Major Finding: In patients with localized prostate cancer, all-cause mortality was 47.0% and disease-specific mortality was 4.4% among men...
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Elderly Kidney Transplantation Candidates Passed Over
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ASCO Weighs in on PSA Screening Controversy
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Soliciting Organ Donors on Facebook Pushes Ethical Envelope
Major Finding: Almost a third of the Facebook pages set up for soliciting living kidney donors were associated with the testing of a potential...
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QoL Steadies 15 Years After Prostate Cancer Treatments
Major Finding: Men who underwent surgery were more likely to need pads to stay dry 15 years after treatment (odds ratio, 4.5), while those treated...
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Studies Clash on Cardiac Effects of TKIs in Kidney Cancer
Major Finding: Whereas LVEF declines of 16% or greater from baseline were seen in 1.8%-2.3% of kidney cancer patients treated with sunitinib or...
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Cranberry Juice Really Does Squelch UTIs, Meta-Analysis Finds
Major Finding: Cranberry juice, tablets, and capsules appear to prevent urinary tract infection, with an RR of 0.62.Data Source: Findings are...
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Bariatric Surgery Yields Durable Results for Diabetic Nephropathy
Major Finding: Among patients with preoperative microalbuminuria, 42% remained stable 5 years after their bariatric surgery, whereas 58% regressed...