Monday 18 August 2008

Alternative Nonsteroidal Antiandrogen Therapy For Advanced Prostate Cancer That Relapsed After Initial Maximum Androgen Blockade

�UroToday.com - In the September, 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Hiroyoshi Suzuki and Japanese collaborators reported that following utmost androgen seal off (MAB) for prostate crab (CaP), the use of alternative nonsteroidal antiandrogens is effective for treating relapsed disease. A total of 232 CaP patients treated with MAB and disease progression made up the study cohort. Upon disease relapse they were treated with an alternative antiandrogen.


For first-line therapy, 39 men received MAB victimisation flutamide and 193 were treated with MAB using bicalutamide. At the time of CaP progression, the first line antiandrogen was stopped and patients assessed for antiandrogens withdrawal syndrome. Second line antiandrogens were then started. Testosterone was confirmed to be in the emasculate level. Standard disease response criteria were used.


All patients achieved castrate levels of testosterone. Mean patient age was 71.5 years and PSA ahead treatment was 1,047ng/ml. Of the 193 men initially tempered with bicalutamide, 143 (74%) achieved a complete reply (CR) and all attained a CR or partial response (RP). Of the 39 flutamide treated patients, 32 (82%) achieved a CR and all attained a CR or PR. The duration of the first line MAB response was 452 days and cause-specific survival was significantly improved in the CR patients compared to the non-CR manpower. Antiandrogen withdrawal response rates were 15.5% for bicalutamide and 12.8% for flutamide. Second line alternative antiandrogen treatment was effective careless of antiandrogens withdrawal syndrome status.


Second line alternative antiandrogen agents resulted in an overall PSA decrease of 50% or greater in 35.8% and a PSA response of 0 to 50% was noted in 25.4%. There was no remainder with esteem to response between bicalutamide and flutamide. Seventy of the 83 good responders had response duration of 202 days. More than half of the patients that had started mo line therapy at a PSA point

Suzuki H, Okihara K, Miyake H, Fujisawa M, Miyoshi S, Matsumoto T, Fujii M, Takihana Y, Usui T, Matsuda T, Ozono S, Kumon H, Ichikawa T, Miki T

J Urol. 2008 Jul 15. Epub in front of print.

doi:10.1016/j.juro.2008.05.045


Reported by UroToday.com Contributing Editor Christopher P. Evans, MD, FACS

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Friday 8 August 2008

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs   
Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Alternative
   Indie
   Rock
   



Discography:


Is Is   
 Is Is

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 5


Show Your Bones   
 Show Your Bones

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


Paredes De Coura   
 Paredes De Coura

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 1


Cheated Hearts (Remix by Peaches)   
 Cheated Hearts (Remix by Peaches)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 3


Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow   
 Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 22


Maps CDS   
 Maps CDS

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


Machine   
 Machine

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


Fever To Tell   
 Fever To Tell

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


Date With The Night (CDSingle)   
 Date With The Night (CDSingle)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


Peel Session, 22-Aug-02   
 Peel Session, 22-Aug-02

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP   
 Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 5


Fates Of Life   
 Fates Of Life

   Year:    
Tracks: 11




Discovered in the wake of the Strokes' popularity and the subsequent service department sway revitalisation meeting, New York's art punk tercet the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are comprised of singer Karen O, guitarist Nicolas Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. O met Chase at Ohio's Oberlin College and met Zinner through friends later she transferred to NYU. Zinner and O formed the ring in 2000; originally, they were a folky duette called Unitard, merely they went galvanising after being divine by Ohio's fabled avant hood scene. After the drummer they recruited initially bowed out, Chase joined the batting order of magnitude.


The Yeah Yeah Yeahs wrote a curve of songs at their first rehearsal and presently wounding up supporting the Strokes and the White Stripes, earning a significant hum for their arty til now aphrodisiac accept on service department tinder. In late 2001, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their self-titled debut EP, which they recorded with Boss Hog's Jerry Teel, on their have Shifty label. Early the next year the stria stepped into the international spot, appearance at South by Southwest, touring the U.S. with Girls Against Boys and Europe with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and headlining their have U.K. duty tour. Wichita Recordings distributed the group's EP in the U.K. and Touch and Go reissued it in the States.


In between tours, the group worn-out 2002 putting the coating touches on its uncut debut and playing American dates with Sleater-Kinney, Liars, and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Late that year, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released the Machine EP to tide fans over before their number one uncut. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs stirred to Interscope for their debut album, 2003's Fever to Tell. Boasting a cleaner sound and more eclectic songwriting than their EPs, the album continued their critical spat and besides won them a fair amount of commercial achiever: the gorgeous lay "Maps" became a attain in 2004 and pushed Febrility to Tell to gold status that year. Karen O besides moved to Los Angeles in 2004, making the Yeah Yeah Yeahs a bicoastal band.


The group took some time to pursue single projects in 2005. O loaned her vocals to "Hello Tomorrow," a collaboration with manufacturer Squeak E. Clean that provided the soundtrack to a Nike horseshoe commercial directed by Spike Jonze, spell Zinner recorded with the side project Head Wound City and besides had a book of photographs, I Hope You Are All Happy Now, published. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs reconvened in the studio that year to record their second album with Clean as producer; jokingly, Clean aforementioned that the album was most O's big cat and would be called Coconut tree Beware, merely the album's substantial form of address, Show Your Bones, was revealed presently subsequently. Released in spring 2006, the album was the band's most mature, polished work in time, and reached number 11 on the record album charts. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs worn-out the rest of the year touring in supporting of the album, and returned in summer 2007 with the Is Is EP, a collection of new recorded versions of songs written in 'tween the band's deuce albums.






Tuesday 1 July 2008

The Apprentice - Apprentice Winner Lee Mcqueens Cv Lies Are Common Trend


Lee McQueen, the winner of the 2008 series of The Apprentice, is not the only Brit to exaggerate his CV, new research has found.

The recruitment sales manager claimed to have completed two years at Thames Valley University until he confessed in the BBC1 show's interview stage that he dropped out after four months.

But McQueen's lack of a degree was no barrier to his success and on Wednesday night a record audience watched him defeat the challenge of Claire Young, Alex Wotherspoon and Helene Speight to become the fourth person to become Sir Alan Sugar's apprentice.

However, McQueen's desire to exaggerate his own academic achievements is common practice, according to new research from education foundation Edge.

Almost three quarters (72 per cent) of parents surveyed said they suspected other parents stretched the truth about their son or daughter's academic prowess while one in ten admitted to doing it themselves.

And nearly half of (44 per cent) parents revealed they felt they were under a lot of pressure to compare their child's academic achievements with those of their peers.

But McQueen's victory proves a degree is not the only path to success, said Andy Powell, chief executive of Edge.

"Lee has challenged the bizarre belief in this country that you must have a degree to be successful in business," he explained.

"It's very disappointing that he felt he needed to lie about his qualifications in order to succeed but as our figures show the public also seems to think that a university education is obligatory.

"Lee has proved that there are a number of paths to success. I hope that others will accept that they do not necessarily need a degree to get ahead."


16/06/2008 00:01:00





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Sunday 15 June 2008

Living End Make Noise With New Album!






The Living End have been one of Australia's best loved bands for years, and next month they unleash their brand new studio album 'White Noise'!

take40.com went to an exclusive laneway gig to see the guys play some of the new songs live... and they sounded amazing!

Previewing new songs like 'Make The Call', 'Raise The Alarm' and 'Moment In The Sun' - The Living End were in top form, and definitely excited us about the release of 'White Noise'!

Closing the set with a cover of AC/DC's 'Jailbreak' (with Jon Toogood from Shihad on guitar), the concert most certainly ended on a truly rockin' high note.

'White Noise' is set to be released on July 19th, and if the laneway gig was anything to go by, it is certanly going to rock!

Check out the title track on your radio now, and stay tuned to take40.com as we'll be chatting to the Living End boys this week!







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Wednesday 4 June 2008

No Twins Yet For Angelina Jolie

Reports that Angelina Jolie has given birth to her twins are premature, her representative stated on Friday (May 30), after stories circulated that the new additions to her family had arrived.

"Angelina has not given birth," her rep explained to People.  "She is fine, enjoying her home and her family in France."

While attending the recent Cannes Film Festival, Jolie announced she was expecting twins after her 'Kung Fu Panda' co-star, Jack Black, accidentally let the news slip during an interview on the U.S. 'Today' show.

NEXT: The Daily Trailer: Sex and the City

Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures.



Saturday 31 May 2008

Madonna orders Timberlake to drop pants

Justin Timberlake has revealed that pop queen Madonna ordered him to drop his trousers so that she could give him a B-12 injection.
Speaking at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, where Madonna was honoured, the 27-year-old star said: "She proceeds to pull a Ziploc bag of B-12 syringes out [of her purse] and says, 'Drop 'em'."
"I don't know what you say to that, so I immediately dropped my pants," Timberlake said, referring to the incident as "one of the greatest days" of his life.
When Madonna later took to the stage, she said: "Everything he said is basically true, but I didn't say 'drop 'em,' I said, 'pull your pants down'.  I like to be accurate because you know I am a control freak."
Check out all the pictures from the ceremony in our gallery here.