tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Case reports and the fight against cancer"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Case reports and the fight against cancer | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Editorial Case reports and the fight against cancer Elie G Dib 1 Michael R Kidd2 and Deborah C Saltman3 Open Access Address 1Sanford Cancer Center University of South Dakota 1020 West 18th Street Sioux Falls SD 57104 USA 2Discipline of General Practice The University of Sydney 37A Booth Street Balmain Sydney NSW 2041 Australia and institute of Postgraduate Medicine Brighton and Sussex Medical School Mayfield House University of Brighton Falmer Brighton BN1 9PH UK Email Elie G Dib - dibe@ Michael R Kidd - michael@ Deborah C Saltman - Corresponding author Published 6 February 2008 Received 16 November 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 39 doi 1752-1947-2-39 Accepted 6 February 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 39 2008 Dib et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Some of the earliest case reports describing individual patients afflicted with cancer can be traced all the way back to the papyrus records of Ancient Egyptian medicine of approximately 1600 . Throughout the centuries physicians have continued the practice of writing case reports. Case reporting has provided significant advances in the knowledge of cancer on several fronts. It is without question that case reports do not replace well designed randomized clinical trials in advancing medical knowledge about cancerous diseases. However case reports have their unique role in evidence-based medicine and often constitute the first line of evidence. This editorial reviews the many useful aspects of case reports and describes specific reports known to have revolutionized cancer .