... cancer cases by race/ ethnicity and sex, Massachusetts, 2000-2004 Figure Age-adjusted incidenceratesand 95% confidence limits of allcancersites combined by race/ ethnicity and sex, ... data on the number of cancers andratesby race/ ethnicity, median ages at diagnosis, tumor size and stage at diagnosis by race/ ethnicity, and data on cancer mortality by racial and ethnic groups ... Rank and age-adjusted incidencerates of the ten leading cancers by race/ ethnicity, Massachusetts males, 2000-2004 Table Rank and age-adjusted incidencerates of the ten leading cancers by...
... National Center for Education Statistics Computer and Internet Use by Children and Adolescents in 2001, NCES 2004–014, by Matthew DeBell and Chris Chapman Washington, DC: 2003 For ordering information ... computers, andover 90 percent of teens (ages 13–17) so About 25 percent of 5year-olds use the Internet, and this number rises to over 50 percent by age and to at least 75 percent byages 15–17 ... the sexes in overall computer or Internet use rates In contrast to the 1990s, when boys were more likely to use computers and the Internet than girls were, overall computer and Internet use rates...
... trends in total lung and bronchus cancerincidenceand the major forms: squamous cell carcinoma, small cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma Incidencerates were calculated for 3-year time periods ... Denmark and Sweden to more than in Slovenia, Italy, and France and more than 10 in Spain Among men, rates declined by 20–25% over virtually the entire time period in all areas except Iceland and ... squamous and small cell carcinoma rates among males, adenocarcinoma rates rose in virtually all areas, with the increases exceeding 50% in Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Spain...
... upstream and (5_-GCTGTGTGGGTCTGCTCTTTCAAGATG) downstream The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was carried out for 30 cycles (98°C for 15 sec, 58°C for 30 sec, and 72°C for 40 sec and finally 72°C for ... therapeutic potential and is a very promising candidate for ovarian cancer therapy in humans Materials and methods Cell culture The human ovarian carcinoma cell lines (ES-2, SKOV-3, TOV-112D and OVCAR-3) ... tested both in ovarian cancer cell lines and in a subcutaneous nude mice model for ovarian cancer The results showed high killing potential in ovarian cancer cell lines and a significant tumor...
... obtained for the H19 and IGF2-P4 transcript were purified from the gel by the DNA and Gel Band Purification Kit (Amersham), and used as templates for the PCR-based incorporation of T7 and Sp6 ... removed and the serosal surface and the adjacent sex glands were dissected carefully Samples of the tumors were fixed in 4% buffered formaldehyde and processed for histological examination for evidence ... were first tested for H19 and IGF2-P4 overall expression by RT-PCR or by ISH (Table 1) 38 out of 39 TCC samples examined by RT-PCR showed positive IGF2-P4 transcripts expression and 37 out of 39...
... Murray T, Xu J, and Thun MJ Cancer statistics 2007 CA Cancer J Clin 2007; 57: 43-66 Li Y, and Cozzi PJ Targeting uPA/uPAR in prostate cancerCancer Treat Rev 2007;33(6):521-7 Catalona WJ and Smith ... 1153-1 165 50 Shimada M and Nakanishi M DNA damage checkpoints andcancer J Mol Histol 2006; 37: 253-260 51 Damia G and Broggini M Cell cycle checkpoint proteins and cellular response to treatment by ... (brachytherapy) [7] iv) The standard initial systemic therapy for locally advanced or metastatic disease is hormonal or androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) that may be performed by bilateral orchiectomy...
... endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty for the treatment of foraminal spinal stenosis Methods This was a prospective study of 64 patients who underwent endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty for refractory foraminal ... greater than months and failed conservative treatments All patients underwent epidural steroid injections and physical therapy before being considered for surgery Total time for the surgery was ... complete foraminal decompression may be treated with a combined interlaminar and lateral approach [6] In a report of 65 surgical cases of lumbar foraminal stenosis, laminectomy and foraminotomy...
... for teachers to examine questions and tasks and choose some for the first time students listen, others for a second listening, and perhaps others for a third time Otherwise, students may be overwhelmed ... CDs andover head projectors, except for a board, chalks, pictures or other visual aids designed by teachers themselves The teachers all graduated form Vietnam National University, college of foreign ... listen for Listening for general understanding, listening for specific or detailed information, predicting, guessing and interpreting are several typical examples Listening tasks are various and...
... partners, log of home and foreign consumer prices and home and foreign interest rates, (see Appendix A for a further description of data and their sources) In addition, a constant and centred seasonal ... models at all horizons, and can therefore not outperform any other model in this forecasting competition Atlhough the structural EqCM model performs better than the random walk at all horizons, ... (2002): Small continuous surveys and the Kalman filter 334 H Hungnes (2001) : Estimating and Restricting Growth Ratesand Cointegration Means With Applications to Consumption and Money Demand B Halvorsen...
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... boiled forand separated by 10–15% SDS ⁄ PAGE before transferring the proteins onto nitrocellulose membranes by semi-dry transfer After blocking in 5% skim milk for h, the membranes were rinsed and ... Representative western blots for pro-IL-1b and TNF-a expression in MSCs stimulated by hypoxia ⁄ SD for the indicated number of hours (B) Representative western blots for pro-IL-1b and TNF-a expression ... Moreover, TNF-a release by MSCs was detectable 3692 Fig Hypoxia ⁄ SD induces cleavages of pro-IL-1b and pro-caspase MSCs were stimulated by hypoxia ⁄ SD in the presence or absence of LPS for...
... locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer showed that the addition of docetaxel to cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil for induction and given before radiotherapy improved both progression-free and overall ... allsites treated with definitive radiotherapy were 89% for T1 lesions and 77% for T2 lesions Nakamura et al (Nakamura et al., 2006) reported 5-year local control rates of 85% and 65% for T1 and ... hypopharyngeal lesions The observed overall survival at years for stage I and II hypopharyngeal cancer from allsites treated by radiotherapy alone ranged between was 40% and 78% (Pingree et al., 1987;...
... bladder cancer, and miR-145 and miR-133a are involved in the regulation of FSCN1 expression and possibly in the development of bladder cancer [19,22] However, the relationship between miR-203 and ... was potentially clinically useful for developing prognostic biomarkers and identifying novel drug targets and therapies However, the relationship between miR203 and bladder cancer is unknown Our ... proliferation or apoptosis in cancer development, and elevated expression of the bcl-w resulted in abnormal cell growth with reduced capability for apoptosis in many cancer types Therefore, we thought that...
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... Processing Society, 5:47C57 John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, and Fernando Pereira 2001 Conditional random fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data In 261 Proceedings ... balanced F-score defined by 2P R/(P + R), and recall of new word detection (NWD recall) For more detailed information on the corpora, refer to Emerson (2005) 5.2 Features, Training, and Tuning We employed ... Fangfang Feng, and Andrew McCallum 2004 Chinese segmentation and new word detection using conditional random fields In Proceedings of Coling 2004, pages 562–568, Geneva, Switzerland, Aug 23–Aug...
... document, locally and globally Experiments and Preliminary Results Currently, we have evaluated grouping-based ordering on single-document summarization, for which text order is usually considered ... generated 100-word summaries for D400 and 200-word summaries for D1k and D2k Since sentence selection is not our focus, the 180 summaries were all extracts produced by a simple but robust summarizer ... both CC and MKM to generate sentence groups andall the proposed algorithms in 2.3 for group-level and sentencelevel orderings, resulting in combinations as test orderings, each coded in the format...
... Risk Factors for Oral Cancer65 Shih-An Liu Chapter Oral Cancerand Potentially Cancerous Lesions – Early Detection and Diagnosis 79 C S Farah, P J Ford, K Allen, A Vu and M J McCullough Chapter ... originating in the oral cavity Oral cancer ranks sixth in the overall incidencefor the 10 most common cancersites worldwide and third in the developing countries (Johnson, 2001) ) There is also a marked ... Oral Cancer up to 5% however has been reported for the United States (Batsakis, 1979), and higher rates have been reported for the so-called “high risk” areas of Europe with incidence equally...
... Leu525 and Leu540, helix 12 and ligands, indicating, that these ligands most likely bind to ER’s conformation more closely related with the antagonist form X-ray crystallography of ER-4OHTAM and ... breast cancerand accounts for 15% of total breast cancer cases Germline mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes result in chromosome instability and deficient repair of DNA double-strand breaks by ... osteoporosis andfor the prevention of breast cancer in high risk postmenopausal women The current clinical trend for the use of antihormonal therapy for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer...