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Friday 29 August 2008
Variations In Quality Of Care For Men With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
�UroToday.com - A study in the August 1, 2008 edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Dr. Benjamin A. Spencer and collaborators suggests that significant inconsistencies in prostate cancer care exist at a national tier in the U.S.
The researchers exploited the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), established in 1989 by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society. This database contains hospital-based information on cancer diagnosis, management, and outcomes with a end of establishing regional and national benchmarks against which hospitals canful compare their care patterns and outcomes. The database has been shown to be interchangeable to SEER with wish to patient and disease characteristics. From 2000-2001 the NCDB gathered information on 70% of all prostate gland cancer cases in the US. Three strata in quality of care were evaluated; patient race, infirmary location, and hospital eccentric. The hospital type was based on established categories from the Commission on Cancer's approvals program and included commandment hospitals associated with a medical schooltime (that do clinical research), comprehensive cancer centers (which treat at least 650 cancer cases annually and participate in clinical research), and community cancer centers (which treat between one C and 649 new cancer the Crab cases every year).
A file of 117,953 cases of prostate gland cancer diagnosed during 2000-2001 was extracted from the NCDB. A 5% ranked random sample of cases was developed, and selected cases were submitted to hospitals from which 92.5% had data received for abstractedness. The analytical sample delineated 55,clx cases; the average affected role age was 66.4 years, and 85% of patients were Caucasian. The pre-treatment PSA level was below 10ng/ml in 72.7% of cases, 60% had a clinical stage T1 tumour, 80% of biopsies had Gleason score 6 or 7, and 41% had no comorbid disease. Caucasian patients were older than African-American patients (66.9 vs. 64 years), had lower PSA levels (9.0 vs. 12.7ng/ml, respectively), had less comorbidity, and were more likely to hold Medicare coverage. Teaching hospitals tended to care for younger hands (65.2 years) compared to community cancer centers (66.5 years) or comprehensive cancer centers (67.5 days). Teaching hospitals also treated lower-stage disease and included more Veterans' Administration and managed care coverage. The Great Lakes region of the U.S. had fewer men with stage T2 disease compared with the Southeast region.
A racial difference in compliance for quality indicators was non demonstrated, however significant variations were observed by hospital type and census division. Comprehensive cancer centers and teaching hospitals had higher compliance rates than community cancer centers in all of the structural indicators and in five of the pre-therapy assessment indicators. Examples of this included documentation of clinical stage, family chronicle of prostate cancer, urinary, sexual and bowel subroutine, rectal protection, board certification of urologists, and radiation oncologists.
This study suggests that the necessary environment for the provision of high-quality concern is by and large available. However, certain aspects of a high-quality environment such as the accessibility of board-certified specialists, psychological counseling and conformal radiation are more than prevalent at teaching hospitals or comprehensive cancer centers.
Spencer BA, Miller DC, Litwin MS, Ritchey JD, Stewart AK, Dunn RL, Gay EG, Sandler HM, Wei JT.
J Clin Oncol. 2008 Aug 1;26(22):3735-42
Reported by UroToday.com Contributing Editor Christopher P. Evans, MD, FACS
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The researchers exploited the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), established in 1989 by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society. This database contains hospital-based information on cancer diagnosis, management, and outcomes with a end of establishing regional and national benchmarks against which hospitals canful compare their care patterns and outcomes. The database has been shown to be interchangeable to SEER with wish to patient and disease characteristics. From 2000-2001 the NCDB gathered information on 70% of all prostate gland cancer cases in the US. Three strata in quality of care were evaluated; patient race, infirmary location, and hospital eccentric. The hospital type was based on established categories from the Commission on Cancer's approvals program and included commandment hospitals associated with a medical schooltime (that do clinical research), comprehensive cancer centers (which treat at least 650 cancer cases annually and participate in clinical research), and community cancer centers (which treat between one C and 649 new cancer the Crab cases every year).
A file of 117,953 cases of prostate gland cancer diagnosed during 2000-2001 was extracted from the NCDB. A 5% ranked random sample of cases was developed, and selected cases were submitted to hospitals from which 92.5% had data received for abstractedness. The analytical sample delineated 55,clx cases; the average affected role age was 66.4 years, and 85% of patients were Caucasian. The pre-treatment PSA level was below 10ng/ml in 72.7% of cases, 60% had a clinical stage T1 tumour, 80% of biopsies had Gleason score 6 or 7, and 41% had no comorbid disease. Caucasian patients were older than African-American patients (66.9 vs. 64 years), had lower PSA levels (9.0 vs. 12.7ng/ml, respectively), had less comorbidity, and were more likely to hold Medicare coverage. Teaching hospitals tended to care for younger hands (65.2 years) compared to community cancer centers (66.5 years) or comprehensive cancer centers (67.5 days). Teaching hospitals also treated lower-stage disease and included more Veterans' Administration and managed care coverage. The Great Lakes region of the U.S. had fewer men with stage T2 disease compared with the Southeast region.
A racial difference in compliance for quality indicators was non demonstrated, however significant variations were observed by hospital type and census division. Comprehensive cancer centers and teaching hospitals had higher compliance rates than community cancer centers in all of the structural indicators and in five of the pre-therapy assessment indicators. Examples of this included documentation of clinical stage, family chronicle of prostate cancer, urinary, sexual and bowel subroutine, rectal protection, board certification of urologists, and radiation oncologists.
This study suggests that the necessary environment for the provision of high-quality concern is by and large available. However, certain aspects of a high-quality environment such as the accessibility of board-certified specialists, psychological counseling and conformal radiation are more than prevalent at teaching hospitals or comprehensive cancer centers.
Spencer BA, Miller DC, Litwin MS, Ritchey JD, Stewart AK, Dunn RL, Gay EG, Sandler HM, Wei JT.
J Clin Oncol. 2008 Aug 1;26(22):3735-42
Reported by UroToday.com Contributing Editor Christopher P. Evans, MD, FACS
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Tuesday 19 August 2008
Ice Cube Reps For 'Mature' Fans; Young Jeezy Raves About Nas Cameo: Mixtape Monday
Artist: Ice Cube
Representing: The W
Independent Album: Raw Footage
411: "The merely rapper wHO wanna fistfight the president." Ice Cube is still militant and down for whatever. His bravado is turned up to 10, and his ego has him feeling as sure-footed as always. Still, Cube wants to show his fans the power of street knowledge. It's all there in his new LP Raw Footage.
"People await over the old heads � fundamentally, the fans who are over 25," Cube aforementioned of the folks he's trying to reach with the August 19 going. "People look over them, I don't. That's my wheelhouse. My true fans are believably 10 years younger than me, 10 years older than me. That world doesn't buy a lot of records now, but it's my job to get them to check for what I'm doing.
"It Takes a Nation." "I wanna take it plunk for to the real hip-hop," Cube said. "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy is one of the records I treasure, I love. I cherished to turn over that and put the emphasis more on us and our community, on what we're doing to hold us back. I also wanted to talk about what's going on in the world and how I feel around it and what I'm ready to do. It's not a game. People playing rap music like it's a plot. Let's flummox back to talking about what people going through so we can clear some of these issues."
"Why Me?" (featuring Musiq Soulchild). "It's the perspective of a dupe," Cube said. "[He's] fundamentally asking his shooter, 'Why me? Why you clean me out of all this?' It goes to random violence. People kill people they don't know. I wanted somebody soulful on the soak to pee-pee you actually feel what you trying to say. Musiq, I'm a fan of his. I like his voice, I like his vibration. He invariably keeps that soul in it. He was a perfect pick. 'Why Me?' is gonna be the next video recording. I haven't done a song wish this rather since 'Dead Homiez,' which was on my Kill at Will album. I'm looking frontward to people hearing this song. It's one of the strongest songs on the album."
"I Got My Locs On" (featuring Young Jeezy). "We've established a good relationship with Jeezy because he's also in a flick I wrote called 'Janky Promoters,' " the West Coast legend explained. "Me and Mike Epps play 2 shady rap [concert] promoters. We bring Jeezy to town and don't have enough money to pay him. We kinda got close doing the flick. [Jeezy] was like, 'Yo, I want you to do a record on my album.' I was like, 'I desire you to do a record on mine.' We exchanged songs and concepts, and made it happen. We got a heater on my album called 'I Got My Locs On.' We made it happen."
Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week
� Jadakiss, Sheek Louch and Styles P - 3 Kings
� DJ OnPoint and Vic Damone - T.O.S.
� HipHopGiant - Hoodstrumentals (Queensbridge Edition)
� DJ Whoo Kid and Remo Da Rapstar - Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
� DJ Omen and Nas - No Apologies (The Most Dangerous MC, Vol. 1)
'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar
� The Game (featuring Nas) - "Letter to the King"
� Lloyd (featuring Yung Joc) - "I'm Wit It" remix
� Ace Hood (featuring Brisco) - "Can't See Y'All"
� Jay-Z - "Jockin' Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh)"
� Young Jeezy - "Vacation"
� T.I. (featuring The-Dream) - "Like I Do"
� Cassidy featuring Cory Gunz - "Body Bags"
Mixtape Monday Faves
Jeezy gets respect in all cities, and last-place week at the Ozone Awards, it was Houston's turn to show him love. He performed with special guests Slim Thug and Bun B, and while Bun was onstage, Jeezy dropped a few new bars addressing his past controversy with former UGK doorknocker Pimp C.
declared that rap music was dead � only God's Son and Jeezy are pretty much in accord correct now. In recent weeks, they've partied together, discussed life and politics, and now, recorded their first gear collaboration. Nas guests on the Snowman's September 2 LP, The Recession, appearing on "My President Is Black."
"Nas is on that joint, by the way," Mr. 17.5 told us during the Ozone Awards. "Murdered it. Esco went in! Esco is a cool n---a, though. I can't even front. He's a thorough na. He went in on the record. I don't know what you're gonna think of it. ... I can't even begin to tell you what he said. I'm just telling you, Esco went in."
While publicly singing activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson that their days of leading the black community are over, the Queens master of rhyme anoints Jeezy and himself as two of the new leaders.
"I'm always in the 'hood, I'm always in the community," Jeezy explained. "I'mma say this and be frank: A lot of cats come up from the 'hood ranks, and everybody wanna repp the 'hood. Everybody wanna say they did this and that. ... When Nas repped me, I feel a way. I'm a cat from Georgia. He's from New York City, so if he tush respect my gangsta, I definitely stool respect his and anybody around him. That's wherefore I respect New York so much and Chi-Town. Detroit, same thing, they respect my gangsta." ...
Game's video for "My Life" aired on "FNMTV" on Friday night. In the video, he makes a huge statement about the genre of music he loves so much. The Compton native wears a T-shirt that reads "Hip-Hop Broke My Heart."
"The hip-hop that I'm used to was the hip-hop that 'Express Yourself' came out of, and 'Fight the Power,' " he explained last week in Houston on his way to a radio station. "When KRS was large. When 'The Bridge Is Over' was big. When it was a dis song, only it wasn't a beef cattle song. When the nature of hip-hop was beautiful. No matter what the face of it was that day, the upshot was always dope, man. From the Spice 1s to the Kool G Raps, that's what I miss. When hip-hop evolved and changed and got thrown in a bucket of Kool-Aid, somebody threw too a great deal sugar in it. Now it tastes a small funny. That's why I say hip-hop broke my heart. When I got in, I thought it would save itself long enough to at least let me see the hip-hop I was used to, the hip-hop I fell in love with. But it didn't do that. Hip-hop left the job for me to continue on and still pay court to the way of old. Me and hip-hop be beefing sometimes, but no topic what face hip-hop makes, I'm gonna evolve with it."
"My Life" features Young Buck in a cameo appearance as a stealer, and Lil Wayne � who sings the hook � pops up in performance scenes.
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Saturday 9 August 2008
Rank 1
Artist: Rank 1
Genre(s):
Trance
Dance
Other
Discography:
Breathing (Airwave 2003)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
Symsonic
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Such Is Life
Year:
Tracks: 6
Carrot Top Is the, Er, Man?!
Tuesday 1 July 2008
See Snoop Dogg Light Up California's Santa Barbara Bowl
Snoop Dogg tore through an explosive set at the Santa Barbara Bowl in California yesterday (June 26th).
The performance was the second night of the rapper's Unity Tour, which also features 311.
Fiction Plane also provided support on the tour, which continues tonight in San Diego.
As previously reported on Gigwise, Snoop Dogg has confirmed that Dr Dre will produce his next studio album.
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Monday 16 June 2008
Paul McCartney Returns To The Former USSR
Paul McCartney [ tickets ] will play a free outdoor concert June 14 in the Ukraine, according to the Sunday Mirror website. The former Beatle is expected to draw more than 300,000 people to the main Independence Square in Kiev. McCartney reportedly will use the event to announce a world tour that is expected to launch later this year and run throughout 2009.
Friday 6 June 2008
Terrence Howard - Howard Broadway Is Slavery
Starring in hit Broadway play CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF has left actor TERRENCE HOWARD depressed and swearing he'll never return to the stage.
The Iron Man insists that if he had known the theatre schedule was so tough he would never have signed up for the role in the beloved Tennessee Williams play.
He claims that appearing on stage at New York's Broadhurst Theatre every night and trying to cram his personal life and business meetings into one day off have left him exhausted.
And he has turned to allergy medicine just to stay healthy.
He says, "Tough thing about Broadway is (it's) eight shows a week. It's slavery. That needs to be adjusted. It's wrong.
"Actors work three years straight sometimes with one day off. This exhaustion puts you into depression.
"Monday, your one day off, you have to cram in all your meetings and appointments and the rest of your whole life, and hope you can survive on Benadryl.
"Broadway is an actor's revenge. I couldn't do Broadway again if it's more than five (shows) a week. I'd just say no... Not doing it."
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Wednesday 28 May 2008
Hilary Duff - The Things They Say 8423
"They're in the middle of a rough time. There are still wild dogs running around the streets that could chase you and bite you at any second." HILARY DUFF on shooting new movie WAR INC. in Bulgaria.
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Thursday 22 May 2008
Jennifer Lopez baby names revealed?
Jennifer Lopez baby names revealed?
Jennifer Lopez has obviously chosen names for her unborn twin babies, according to a account.
The singer announced last Nov that she was expecting her number 1 children with hubby Marc Marcus Antonius and is rumoured to be due to turn over birth in the spring.
According to Lead cartridge clip, her female parent Guadalupe was spotted picking up baby ID bracelets engraved with the names Max and Emme at a Fresh York jewelry store.
Lopez of late revealed that she is to take an extended break from turn to focus on lovingness for her babies.
Friday 9 May 2008
Tuesday 6 May 2008
Beckham gets new six-inch tattoo of Posh
Beckham gets new six-inch tattoo of Posh
David Beckham has pledged his love to wife Victoria Falls by outlay over €3,300 on a fresh tattoo.
The footballer's freshly design shows the Spice Girl sitting as a naked backer - a copy of his favourite photograph of his wife from a Brigitte Bardot-inspired shoot for Pour down magazine about iV days ago.
The tattoo, inked onto his left field arm, is Beckham's 11th. He already boasts designs heading his wife and trey sons' names.
A germ close to the couple told the Mirror newspaper publisher: "They ar both thrilled with the solution. It's been attractively done. Victoria was flattered."
Beckham showed off his newly tattoo during his visit to Federative Republic of Brazil. The football player is in the land to launch his third association football academy.
Mercy ... Duffy hit on hunk
Mercy ... Duffy hit on hunk
Soul vocalizer DUFFY has revealed that her tally song Mercy is about a whodunit man
she wanted to have sexual activity with.
The 23-year-old headliner said he was a “very sexual character”,
adding: “He was gorgeous and I was very tempted, simply my morality got
the wagerer of me.”
Duffy has denied she wrote the call about her ex-partner Mark DURSTON.
The Welshman perfection said she dumped Fall guy after he cheated on her.
She added: “I thought he treasured me.”
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Tabloid claims about Newman's health denied
Tabloid claims about Newman's health denied
Reports that plastic film fable Saint Paul Newman has undergone a secret procedure to hold open him from cancer are unfounded, according to the actor's representative.
Warren Cowan revealed that he rundle with Paul Newman about the claims by tabloid cartridge The Asker.
Newman said: "I'm organism treated for athlete's infantry and pilus loss... peradventure the doctors acknowledge something that I don't!"
Whilst Cardinal Newman has retired from playing he still spends considerable fourth dimension working for his various charities.
The star, wHO has appeared in numerous plastic film classics including 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'Cool Hand Luke', founded the Barretstown charity in Kildare in 1994.
To date over 10,000 children with cancer and other serious illnesses have benefited from the charity.
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Farrell feared ruining In Bruges
Farrell feared ruining In Bruges
Colin Farrell has revealed he ab initio turned go through the track part in his forthcoming picture show because he feared his presence mightiness read away from the film.
Speech production to the Hollywood Newsman, Farrell said that he felt the producers of 'In Bruges' were devising a huge fault when they asked him to virtuoso in the moving picture.
The champion went on to say that he was thrilled to be approached for the film, which as well stars Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, merely he became concerned that his reputation would eclipse the quality of the script.
Eileen Farrell said he begged the movie's writer and theater director, Irish people Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh, to hurtle an unknown player in the role. McDonagh however was determined to have Eileen Farrell on display panel.
Eileen Farrell told the Hollywood Newsman: "I was chuffed to be region of it. It was only the best thing I ever read. Just your public character, people bestow that in. And I met [McDonagh] in Freshly York at the Hilton Hotel i good afternoon and I tried to win over him he should draw an stranger in the role ... It was so good, I opinion it would be trade good non to cast me."
'In Bruges', which tells the tarradiddle of assassins wHO ar forced to hide out in Belgique, will open this weekend's Dublin International Cinema Festival. It goes on general release from 7 March.
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