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What advice would you give to patients who are concerned about statin use and its controversies around brain health and dementia risk?
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Cardiovascular Medicine • Ohio State University
Statins are not a treatment for dementia, but may be a tool to prevent neurological disease. Multiple past observational studies have suggested a protective effect, and a recent meta-analysis of 55 studies encompassing over 7 million patients showed statin users had a significant reduction in dementia — especially with use over 3 years. Rosuvastatin showed the most profound protective effect for all-cause dementia...
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Radiation Oncology
For locally advanced breast cancer, to what dose do you treat undissected clinically positive level III axilla, SCV or IM nodes?
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Radiation Oncology • Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada
Often, I will deformable fuse pre neo adjuvant PET/CT to the post op CT sim and boost to 60 Gy if I can identify the pre neo adjuvant nodes, otherwise I will go to 50 Gy comprehensive. Deformable fusion works well for IMN, not often well for the axilla...
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