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Observing long-term survival rates, researchers at the IU School of Medicine, led by Dr. Scott Saxman, have reconfirmed the conclusions of a groundbreaking 10-year-old study which originally compared the effectiveness of two protocols for chemotherapy in the treatment of testicular cancer. The long-term follow-up study determined that survival rates for testicular cancer patients remained equal whether they received three or four cycles of chemotherapy.
The findings are reported in this month's issue of the Journal of Clinical
Oncology.
http://medicine.indiana.iupui.edu/testic.htm
The disease is called macular degeneration, and it's the leading cause of irreversible visual loss in the United States. The IU Department of Ophthalmology recently has opened the IU Macular Degeneration Research Center and Clinic. Directing the program are Drs. Ronald Danis, Thomas Ciulla and Alon Harris.
William W. Baldwin has been named acting director of the IU School of
Medicine's Northwest Center for Medical Education in Gary. He replaces Dr.
Panayotis Iatridis, who retired Dec. 31. Baldwin is a professor of
microbiology and immunology.
He joined the faculty of the Northwest Center in 1973 and received his doctoral degree from the IUSM in 1974.
Iatridis will remain at the Northwest Center as a professor of medicine.
A free educational conference discussing the causes of urinary incontinence and pelvic floor disorders in women is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon March 14 at the National Institute for Fitness and Sport on the IUPUI campus.
Presenters include Dr. Douglass Hale, co-director of the IU School of Medicine Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery Fellowship Program, and Jamie Turner and Beth Hoppe Stidham, exercise physiologists. Causes, management, exercise and physical therapy, and medical treatments will be discussed.
To register, call Dianne Wyman at 317-274-8557 or Pat Wilkins at 317 274-4057.
For more IUSM news:
http://medicine.indiana.iupui.edu/pressrelease.htm
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