Prostate Cancer - part 4 pps

... biopsy. For prostates larger than 70 cc, 1 8- core and 1 4- core biopsies would be needed for an optimal detection of prostate cancer in a 50-year- old or younger patient and a 70-year-old or older ... testing. JAMA 2 74: 144 5– 144 9 29. Jacobsen SJ, Bergstralh EJ, Katusic SK, et al (1998) Screening digital rectal examination and prostate cancer mortality: a population-based ca...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... (Table 7 7 -4 ). Older patients and those with a Karnofsky performance status <70 have a poor prognosis unless the poor performance is a reversible consequence of the tumor. Table 7 7 -4 Karnofsky ... features of the tumor are being related to prognosis. The expression of particular oncogenes, drug-resistance genes, apoptosis-related genes, and genes involved in metastasis are being...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... visceral metastases. No poor-risk category exists for seminoma. Marker levels play no role in defining risk for seminoma. Nonseminomas have good-, intermediate-, and poor-risk categories based on ... AFP < 1000 ng/mL Beta- hCG < 5000 mIU/mL LDH < 1.5 x upper limit Absent nonpulmonary visceral metastases Any LDH, hCG Chapter 092. Testicular Cancer (Part 4) Stages I...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 02:20

... treatment of prostate cancer at dif- ferent stages. Follow-up of Prostate Cancer Patients Patients diagnosed with prostate cancer are usu- ally followed life-long or until high age makes follow-up superuous. ... be fol- lowed-up carefully with serial PSA measure- ments and periodic prostate re-biopsies at 2, 5 and 10 years. e earlier papers [39 44 ] describe cancer- speci...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... normally undergo apoptosis and slough off. Figure 7 9 -4 Germline and somatic mutations in the tumor- suppressor gene APC. APC encodes a 2 843 -amino- acid protein with 6 major domains: an oligomerization ... 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 4) Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a dominantly inherited colon cancer syndrome due to germline mutations in the adenomatous polyp...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... telomeres are 1 5- to 20-kb pairs long and are composed of tandem repeats of a six-nucleotide sequence (TTAGGG) that associate with specialized telomere-binding proteins to form a T-loop structure ... tumor-associated antigen recognized by antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) that lyse human melanoma, prostate, lung, breast, and colon cancer cells in vitro. Clinical trials...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

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Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 17:20

... MARKS off about 4 or 5 points, and I was really concerned. He told me not to worry. He assured me that the stock was a bargain and that the sell-off was a once-in-a-lifetime buying opportunity. ... before—selling out-of-the- money calls? Sure, but these types of price moves were totally unprecedented. There are a lot of Internet stocks that are up twenty- or thirtyfold dur- ing the past...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 00:20

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