... lung cancer and 38-65% for patientswith stage 1B lung cancer Surgery gives the highest chance of cure for patientswith stage I and II lung cancer D 6.2.2 Patientswith stage I and II lung cancer ... radiotherapy despite the absence of evidence to support their use 33 MANAGEMENT OFPATIENTSWITH LUNG CANCER 11 Complementary therapies Up to a third ofpatientswithcancer in the UK use complementary ... as offering the best compromise between accuracy of staging and containment of morbidity 17 MANAGEMENT OFPATIENTSWITH LUNG CANCER 6.2.5 RESECTION IN PATIENTSWITH STAGE IIIA NSCLC A number of...
... factors First of all, the inclusion in our multivariable analysis (with a stepwise mode of variable selection) of a marker Table 3: Multivariate survival analysis of 70 patientswith gastric cancer ... peripheral patients gene TNM stage I to IV gastric cancer blood of 70 Survivin Survivin gene levels measured in the peripheral blood of 70 patientswith TNM stage I to IV gastric cancer The trend ... expression of a chosen sample by which the expression profile of each sample of interest is adjusted: this approach enables the investigator to compare the expression profile of the samples of interest...
... quality of life ofpatientswith chronic disease: a review J Clin Epidemiol 1992, 45:743-760 Tang ST, McCorkle R: Use of family proxies in quality of life research for cancerpatients at the end of ... demands of giving support to another Studies among elderly patients and those with dementia have suggested that caregivers with higher levels of burden tend to be less in agreement withpatients' ... (median) score of 18.5 (17)[19,20] This is a surprising finding, as this was a sample of terminally patients, most of whom died within the next few weeks and months All of the patients and caregivers...
... see the follow- up progress ofpatients after years The PI then called the patients who had defaulted follow- up for enquiries about their condition and treatment All data entered into the proforma ... withdrawals, with vascular dementias, with the organic psychotic disorder and with the organic mood syndrome of them had a previous history of a mental illness Only of them were agitated 32 of ... index of p = 0.167 G Effect of psychiatric diagnosis and mortality There was no difference in terms of mortality between those with the Acute or Chronic varieties of OBS Even in older patients with...
... 5-year follow- up [19] Similarly, years after the initiation of the ARMADA (Anti-TNF Research Study Program of the Monoclonal Antibody D2E7 in Patientswith RA) trial, 64% of the 271 enrolled patients ... Evaluation of the efficacy of long-term therapy shows that, after years of infliximab therapy, the majority ofpatients had a low level of disease activity and that approximately half of the patients ... 4-year continuation rates and efficacy of infliximab in a large cohort ofpatientswith long-standing refractory RA Relatively few patients were lost to follow- up, which is important when estimating...
... over the five-year follow- up in two Japanese patientswith Paget's disease of the bone To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a long-term follow- upofpatientswith PDB after a ... Five-year follow- upof Japanese patientswith Paget's disease of the bone after treatment with low-dose oral alendronate: a case series Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010, 4:166 Page of ... Iba et al Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010, 4:166 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/4/1/166 knowledge, this is the first report of a long-term followup ofpatientswith PDB after a...
... total of 596 patients were screened for this study Of the 596 screened patients, 575 started infliximab There were 71 losses to follow- up, so that 504 patients were evaluable (Figure 1a) Of these, ... chart of patient disposition A total of 596 patients were screened for this study, of which 575 started infliximab Of these, 71 were lost to follow- up, so that 504 were evaluated There were 158 patients ... N, Geldhof A, Boullart L, De Keyser F: Four-year follow- upof infliximab therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patientswith long-standing refractory disease: attrition and long-term evolution of disease...
... 393 Dead N= Withdraw N= Lost to followup N= 89 months followup Ethics N= 297 The Regional Ethics Committee and the Data Inspectorate approved the study Results Characteristics ofpatients During ... main findings in this study of trauma patientswith different degrees of injury severity were that the mean scores for all subscales of HRQOL, with the exception of social functioning, were significantly ... plausible that these patients might be in greater need of long term followup in physical training than those not showing significant symptoms of PTS symptoms and depression Patientswith a pessimistic...
... Analysis of the group ofpatients subjected to surgery and adjuvant therapy B - Analysis of the group ofpatients subjected only to surgery Left - the q-values are plotted against the p-values of differences ... question of detecting therapy-related changes in the mass profiles registered for blood samples collected from breast cancerpatients SELDI-ToF analysis of the plasma proteome of breast cancerpatients ... components formed [A
... usefulness of measuring serum levels of mRNA of these genes chronologically from ICU admission in patients treated surgically for esophageal cancer Methods Patients and sample collection 27 patients ... indicators of clinical course are shown (Additional File 1) With respect to gene markers’ association with surgical parameters, upregulation of TNF-a mRNA correlated with increased duration of anesthesia ... Prognostic impact of clinical coursespecific mRNA expression profiles in the serum of perioperative patientswith esophageal cancer in the ICU: a case control study Journal of Translational Medicine...
... predictor of follow- up TOI, perceived problems with control of pain/discomfort predicted follow- up SWB and perceived problems with control of nausea/vomiting was a predictor of follow- up EWB Rather ... limitation of our study is an inflated type I error The predictors of HRQL in patientswith colorectal cancer may differ from those in patientswith other types ofcancer Furthermore, the predictors of ... predictor of health-related quality of life in head and neck cancerpatients Qual Life Res 2000, 9:951-960 Schultz AA, Winstead-Fry P: Predictors of quality of life in rural patientswithcancer Cancer...
... Characterization of an ovarian cancer activating factor in ascites of ovarian cancerpatients Clin Cancer Res 1995, 1:1223-1232 Abdollahi T, Robertson NM, Abdollahi A, Litwack G: Identification of interleukin ... associated with a shorter disease-free interval in patientswith ovarian cancer Journal of Ovarian Research 2010 3:1 Publish with Bio Med Central and every scientist can read your work free of charge ... characterized their ascites with regards to TRAIL sensitivity, 35 had followup > year We therefore used this cohort of 35 patients to assess the prognosis potential of having protective ascites...
... disease As a consequence, within few months these patients return with recurrent cancer[ 1] In most cases, patients present themselves with multiple sites of metastatic disease within the abdomen which ... presence of 37°C with 5% CO2 Page of 12 masses and/or a family history of ovarian cancer Description ofpatients who participated in the study is provided in Additional file (Table 1) Preparation of ... Page 10 of 12 Figure Western blot analysis of Brn-3a(l) expression in (a) ovarian cancer cell lines and (b) tumor cells from ascites ofcancerpatients Cell lysates (25 μg) of (a) ovarian cancer...
... testing of the EORTC colorectal cancer- specific quality of life questionnaire module (QLQ-CR38) European Organization for Research and Treatment ofCancer Study Group on Quality of Life Eur J Cancer ... Sprangers MA, Blazeby JM: Assessing quality of life in patientswith colorectal cancer: an update of the EORTC quality of life questionnaire Eur J Cancer 2007, 43:1564-1573 29 Whistance RN, Conroy ... ColoRectal Cancer; EORTC: European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer; ES: Effect Size; FACT-C: Functional Assessment ofCancer Therapy-Colorectal; FACT-G: Functional Assessment of Cancer...
... outpatients' department (2.0) Results A study sample of 240 consecutive cancerpatientswith cancer- related chronic pain (Table 1) was enrolled About half of them were males, 29% had a cancerof ... population of advanced cancerpatientswith pain The results on prevalence are going to be presented elsewhere Patients were included if they had a diagnosis of cancer, had cancer- related chronic ... results should be considered within the limits of the study methods which required the assessment of previous 24 hours pain in a population of advanced cancerpatientswith no clinically evident...
... PET/CT Of these 16 patients, 2/16 were in the first group, 12/16 in Group and 2/16 in Group3 In group 1, 2/4 patients (50%) had compatible PET/CT and CT results In the other half of these patients ... restaging of gastric cancer and to compare with conventional CT Method Patient Group In this retrospective analysis, we reviewed a total of 51 PET/CT reports of 44 primary gastric adenocarcinoma patients ... considered in this patient Group included 24 patients The number ofpatients who had compatible results of PET/CT and CT in group (overall concordance) was 12/24 (%50) The accuracy of the PET/CT results...
... duration of symptoms and in the proportion ofpatientswith rectal cancer having pre-operative chemoradiation (neo-adjuvant therapy) (Table 1) The median time offollowup for the young patients ... 13% with stage IV cancer Like in young patients, the majority of older patients (75%) had R0 resection Survival Analysis in the Young During a median fifty months of follow- up in 53 young patients, ... a subset analysis of AJCC stage, of 7(28.6%) with stage I cancer; of 14(14.3%) with stage II; of 22(27.3%) with stage III and all stage IV cancerpatients had died Most significantly, those who...
... and patients managed with supportive care alone are alive at and 17 months Overall followup is as follows: 145 patients were followed until death and the remaining patients for a median of 17 ... impact of non-operative management of advanced CRC in an unselected, consecutive series ofpatients presenting with newly diagnosed disease It reviews and compares the outcomes ofpatientswith ... incurable The aim of treatment in the majority ofpatientswith advanced disease is palliation with a view to optimise quality of life (QoL) and survival time[4] Patients diagnosed with Stage IV...
... biological significance of synchronous appendiceal tumors in CRC patients The aims of this study were to evaluate the incidence of synchronous appendiceal neoplasm in patientswith resectable CRC ... risk of synchronous and metachronous neoplasm of the appendix [5,7] Little is known about the incidence of appendiceal neoplasm in CRC patients To Table 1: Patients' characteristics, details of ... metachronous tumours of colon cancer A review of years of experience (1999–2004) Ann Ital Chir 2006, 77:233-239 Wolff M, Ahmed N: Epithelial neoplasms of the vermiform appendix (exclusive of carcinoid)...
... treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer[ 14] The goals of this analysis was to: 1) gain a better understanding of the value of drug eluting bead therapy when administered to patientswith unresectable ... type of treatments with the Irinotecan drug eluting device Thus our data cannot Figure chemotherapy b) Overall chemotherapy hepatic metastasis after ofpatients treated withpatients treated with ... Free Survival ofpatients treated with Irinotecan drug eluting beads with liver dominant hepatic metastasis after failing standard chemotherapy b) Overall Survival ofpatients treated with Irinotecan...