853 B eginning in 1979, the then Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued a document titled " Healthy People: The Surgeon General' s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention " (1). With the release in 1990 of Healthy People (HP) 2000, the process of establishing health directions for the nation, as well as the increased variety of topics addressed, both signified expanded co...

Sir A very welcome recent editorial in the Journal (Smith, 1991) addressed the important question of the use of LHRH analogues in breast cancer, but we do not consider all of the viewpoints expressed to be either definitive or necessarily correct: Firstly, the word analogues is used throughout as being synonymous with LHRH agonists. This is now a historical viewpoint as pure LHRH antagonists ar...