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Hilar Biliary Cancer – are We Getting it Right?

Recent reviews of the management of hilar biliary cancer suggest that radical resection is the preferred treatment option. It seems true that most of the long term survivors are treated this way, but it is equally true that most patients receive palliative rather than curative treatment. Before we go too far in our advocacy of radical treatment, we need to develop methods for quantifying pallia...

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery - are we getting it right?

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 1 February 2010 192 3 117-118 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Editorials pathway has been demonstrated to improve adheren laxis, with a reduction in surgical site infections. In th Journal (page 141), a study by Haydon and colleague antibiotic prophylaxis protocol use in 45 Australian c units increased significantly between 2...

Myeloid leukemia: are we getting better?☆

short time. There is a need to provide a post remission therhe study by Callera et al., published in this issue of the evista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH),1 eveals evidence of a continuous decrease in the mortality ate in adult patients with myeloid leukemias from 1994 to 011 in southeast Brazil. Undoubtedly, this decline is related o the better understanding and treatment of ...

DNA Cytosine Demethylation: Are We Getting Close?

Whether 5-methylcytosine (meC) can be enzymatically removed from vertebrate DNA has been the subject of extensive study and also some controversy. Rai et al. (2008) now report that cytosine demethylation can be accomplished in a one-cell zebrafish embryo by the combined action of a cytidine deaminase and a thymine DNA glycosylase.

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