It includes the options any oncologist addresses: surgery, chemotherapy and radiation and their side effects.
Three eligible trials addressing surgery vs primary tamoxifen therapy were identified (Table 1), all of which reported outcome data (Gazet et al, 1994; Kenny et al, 1998; Fentiman et al, 2003).
Four eligible trials addressing surgery plus endocrine therapy vs primary endocrine therapy were identified, of which three have reported outcome data (Willsher et al, 1997; Capasso et al, 2000; Mustacchi et al, 2003; Fennessey et al, 2004), although there is currently no data from one in a form that can be meta-analysed (Capasso et al, 2000).
Even so, it will not address fusion surgery for chronic back pain; the participating physicians couldn't agree on diagnostic criteria and forms of treatment.
At present, there is no consensus about the best strategy to address revision surgery in patients with failure of ceramic implant.
In ADDRESS, recent surgery (within 30 days prior to study entry) was associated with a numerically higher risk of serious bleeding during infusion in both the Xigris-treated and the placebo-treated patients (Xigris: 3.6% in patients with recent surgery versus 1.6% in patients without recent surgery; placebo: 1.6% versus 0.9%, respectively).
It may be that Posada has a problem that will need to be addressed with surgery.
But where Rosamund's Octavia in The Millstone had a congenital heart defect that was addressed by surgery, Anna's condition has far more wide-ranging and long-lasting implications.
If reconstruction is considered in elbows with secondary dysplastic changes, these changes have to be addressed during surgery [20].
"While on the one hand it has provided a lot of visibility about intersex issues... it does not address the surgeries and the medicalisation of intersex people and that's not good - that has to change," he told the BBC.
