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To the Editor: Loprinzi and his colleagues (Aug. 11 issue)¹ measured the effect of megestrol on hot flashes by weighting the number of hot flashes according to their severity. A score of 8 could mean that one patient had two very severe episodes a day or that eight patients each had one mild episode daily. The authors present their results as the total score for all the patients, expressed as a percentage of the sum of the base-line values. This could represent a uniform effect or a mixture of complete relief and no effect. It would be interesting to know . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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