Báo cáo khoa học: "Hospitalized cancer patients with severe sepsis: analysis of incidence, mortality, and associated costs of care" doc

... 4.3% of cases, and metastatic cancer withoutreference to the primary accounted for 12.3% of cancer severe sepsis discharges. Cancer prevalence, hospitaliza-tions, severe sepsis incidence, and severe ... hospitalization cost associated with the care of cancer severe sepsis hospitalizations in 1999Figure 1Age-specific incidence (per 1000 population) of severe sepsis patients with and without cancerAge-specific ... pop)Non -Cancer Severe Sepsis Cancer Severe Sepsis Figure 2Age-specific hospital mortality for severe sepsis patients with and with- out cancerAge-specific hospital mortality for severe sepsis patients...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Early clinical experience with volumetric modulated arc therapy in head and neck cancer patients" ppsx

... therapy of head and neck cancer. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2008, 8:633-644.4. Li Y, Ten Haken R, Eisbruch A: The impact of dose on parotid recovery inhead and neck cancer patients treated with ... degree of xerostomia with relatedacceptable quality of life, with good probability of a sub-stantial preservation of the saliva flow rate. Publishedexamples of clinical experience with IMRT, ... 2009,all head and neck patients are treated with RapidArctechnology, generally associated with chemotherapy.Aim of the present study is to evaluate the initial clinicalexperience with head and neck...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Steroid use in PROWESS severe sepsis patients treated with drotrecogin alfa (activated)" pot

... mortality associated with severe sepsis and/ or septic shock [22]. Adrenal replacement therapy in patients with adrenal failure may be a logical addition to standard carein patients with severe ... betweentreatment group and placebo were not significant.A recent review and meta -analysis [18] assessing the effects of corticosteroids on mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock ... study examines steroiduse in PROWESS patients with severe sepsis and septicshock.Materials and methodsIn the PROWESS trial, severe sepsis patients were randomlyassigned to receive either drotrecogin...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Robust Dialog Management with N-best Hypotheses Using Dialog Examples and Agenda" pdf

... Dialog Examples and AgendaCheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung and Gary Geunbae LeePohang University of Science and TechnologyDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringPohang, Republic of Korea{lcj80,hugman,gblee}@postech.ac.krAbstractThis ... Recogni-tion and Understanding Workshop, 538–543.Lesh, N., Rich, C., and Sidner, C. 2001. Collaborat-ing with focused and unfocused users under imper-fect communication. Proceedings of the InternationalConference ... misunderstand a user and in turn lead toan inappropriate response. To avoid these errors, abasic solution is to improve the accuracy and robust-ness of the recognition and understanding processes.However,...

báo cáo khoa học: "Adenovirus-mediated siRNA targeting Bcl-xL inhibits proliferation, reduces invasion and enhances radiosensitivity of human colorectal cancer cells" ppt

... metastasis and venous permeation of CRC patients [9]. Zhang and his colleagues also reported that the expression of Bcl-xL was associated with the pathological grade, lymph node metastasis and Duke’s ... tumor progression and development. Previously, we have reported that overexpression of Bcl-xL was correlated with prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. The aim of this study was to ... association of Bcl-xL expression with invasion and radiosensitivity of human CRC cells. Methods: RT-PCR and Western blot assays were performed to determine the expression of Bcl-xL mRNA and protein...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Information about studies on Hungarian forest ecosystems. Selected research-papers and future investigations of Síkfõkút long-term project" pdf

... production of trees.- Annual dynamics of tree leaf area and leaf weight.- Growth analysis of the assimilatingshoots of dominant plants.C) Mass of organic and inorganic ... radiation and energy balance of the forest.- Energy content of trees and shrubs and of their fractions.E) Decomposition of organic matter. Com-plex investigation of soil- ... and water cycles- Seasonal changes of bioclement con-tent in trees and their fractions.- Study of photosyntethis and respiration of tree leaves.- Seasonal dynamics of...

Báo cáo khoa học: "SemiWhole brain radiotherapy with a conformational external beam radiation boost for lung cancer patients with 1-3 brain metastasis: a multi institutional study" pdf

... framework of modern technique delivery.ConclusionsThis analysis of the outcome of 53 lung cancer patients with BM treated with WBRT and RTB reveals anincrease in OS and PFS for patients treated with ... how-ever in line with the retrospective analysis of 201 patients with 1 - 2 BMs[1]. All patients were RPA 1 or2 and they underwent resection of the metastasis and WBRT with (n = 102) or without (n ... significance.Conclusions: The majority of lung cancer patients treate d with WBRT and RTB progressed extracranially. Theremight be a subgroup of younger patients with good performance status and no extracranial...

báo cáo khoa học: "Pancreatic cancer: Surgery is a feasible therapeutic option for elderly patients" pptx

... collection and analysis, and drafting.RS participated in data collection and analysis, and drafting. NL participatedin drafting.IN participated in drafting. FG participated in data collection and analysis and ... which is associated with consider-able morbidity and mort ality [7] and therefore cliniciansstill fail to refer patients with early stage pancreatic cancer to surgery [8].As a result of demographic ... cause of cancer related mortality in the U.S. with an estimated five-yearsurvival of about 5% reflecting the aggressive nature of this dise ase [1]. In spite of recent advances in the fieldsof...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Retroperitoneal abscess complicated with necrotizing fasciitis of the thigh in a patient with sigmoid colon cancer" ppt

... RM, Schmoll HJ: Survival of patients with advanced colorectal cancer improves with theavailability of fluorouracil-leucovorin, irinotecan, and oxali-platin in the course of treatment. J Clin Oncol ... colorectal cancer (e.g., cytotoxic agents such as irinotecan, oxaliplatin, and the fluoropyrimidines, and bevacizumab and cetuximab)have improved the median survival period of patients with unresectable ... first line of treat-ment for patients with unresectable colorectal cancer. Pal-liative resection of the primary lesion is rarely performedwhen there are no symptoms of primary cancer, such...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Supracricoid partial laryngectomy with cricohyoidoepiglottopexy in patients with radiation therapy failure" ppsx

... at the site of the primary cancer. Results: SCPL with CHEP was performed in six men and two women with a mean age of 67 yearsdue to recurrence and/ or persistence at a mean time of 30 months ... acquisition, interpreta-tion and writing of the paper. PP: Conception and design and review of the article. ECR: Data acquisition and draft-ing the manuscript. MTV: Data acquisition and draftingthe manuscript. ... conclusion, in selected patient with persistence and/ orrecurrence after radiotherapy due to cancer of the larynx,SCPL with CHEP seems to be feasible with acceptablelocal control and toxicity. Complications...

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