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N O'Higgins

Publications and source records attributed to N O'Higgins.

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PubMed1986

Reducing the mortality from breast cancer.

The mortality from breast cancer could be reduced if the disease could be prevented, cured by treatment not yet developed or identified at such an early stage that it could be cured by existing treatments. Although many aspects of breast cancer remain controversial, there are grounds for optimism in improving prognosis by early identification and treatment of the disease. This paper deals with "early" breast cancer, not advanced disease. While striking, even dramatic, remissions may be achieved by treating patients with advanced breast cancer, such treatment is palliative rather than curative, and reduction in mortality is unlikely to occur.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1974

Simultaneous combined pancreatic test.

A simultaneous combined pancreatic test can be performed in one morning with only one intubation of the duodenum. The test includes the measurement of exocrine pancreatic secretion of bicarbonate, enzymes, and radioactive selenium, pancreatic scanning, hypotonic duodenography, and cytology of the duodenal aspirate. In the first 70 patients it was found that a single secretion test was of only limited value in detecting pancreatic disease; cytology was the most reliable and scanning the least reliable single test; and that the combined test provided near-complete discrimination between patients with no pancreatic disease, with chronic pancreatitis, and with carcinoma of the pancreas.

Acute Disease↗