4 risk factors for lung cancer

... Study - Clinical risk factors and premalignant lesions of gastric cancer in high risk cohort 28 Study - Genetic risk factors for gastric cancer and premalignant lesion of gastric cancer Study - Using ... gastric cancer each year worldwide, making gastric cancer the 4th most common cancer Half of the global burden occurs in East Asia Gastric cancer is also the second leading cause of cancer death ... eliminating the common risk factors for cancer such as low socioeconomic status, smoking, dietary factors (intake of salt and preserved food) (105) and specific risk factor for GC - HP infection (106,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:29

... using no contraception cancer Table IV Relative risks for ovarian cancer associated with duration of use of contraception by gravidity Table VI Relative risks for ovarian cancer associated with ... -2.8) risks adjusted for age, social class, gravidity and duration of unprotected intercourse aReference category bRelative risks adjusted for gravidity RISK FACTORS FOR OVARIAN CANCER significantly ... ovarian cancer We would like to thank the Imperial Cancer Research Fund for financing the study, Professor Sir Richard Doll for helpful advice, Professor Christopher Hudson and Dr Marigold Curling for...

Ngày tải lên: 23/05/2016, 10:06

... risk factors by each of the others in turn (List 1, see Appendix), initially ignoring multiple influences[21,22] We adjusted for the multiple comparisons by requiring 99% confidence For risk factors ... gifts? Forcing sex with someone you know is not rape Competing interests Forcing your partner to have sex is rape Subjective norms about sexual violence Do most people in your community feel forcing ... were also associated with violent altercations: forcing one's partner to have sex is not rape (OR 1.23 99%CI 1.10– Page of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) BMC Women's Health 2007,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... gender differences for these levels, i.e., 19U/L and 30U/L for girls and boys, respectively (33, 34) 4.2 Radiologic Diagnosis The image-based diagnosis of NAFLD is usually straightforward, but fat ... 2006, hospitalization increased from 0.9 to 4.3/100,000 for NAFLD, and from 35.5 to 114.7/100,000 for obesity Obese children followed for y To determine the course of obesity associated NAFLD ... significant associations between insulin resistance and NAFLD, and similar risk factors and protective factors for these interrelated disorders Waist circumference and the ratio of apolipoprotein...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... combinations that lead to an increased QOL decline is important for the individual care of patients, and for public health purposes [12] For older patients with an eye condition it is not yet known ... and performed data analyses; PJR helped to draft the manuscript and revised the manu- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:18 script for important ... July 2000 and January 2003 The eligibility requirements for inclusion in the non-randomized study were referral to low-vision services for the first time by an ophthalmologist, age over 50 years,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Ratio (RR) of 8.0 for MRSA colonisation in patients from NHS nursing homes, compared to patients from private care homes Much of the evidence for United Kingdom guidelines for MRSA prevention ... injury’ Values are given to three significant figures, except for p-values, which are given to two decimal places Patient outcome was assessed for significance (p < 0.05) and strength of association ... Statistical Analysis Cases were imported to SPSS 14.0 for Windows® Data was analysed using Chi-Squared testing Patients were grouped into categories for ’age’ and ’time from original injury’ Values...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Chiapas received a blood transfusion for woman, spouse used other drugs for woman, spouse had sex with other women for women, and no risk factors were identified for women The HIV prevalence among ... Mexico: lessons learned and implications for developing countries AIDS 2002, 16:1445-1457 Abstract Zuma K, Gouws E, Williams B, Lurie M: Risk factors for HIV infection among women in Carletonville, ... hospital based, with 24% of our patients having no prenatal care before delivery and 54% having or fewer prenatal visits; therefore, this was a high-risk population.[3] In contrast, the CENSIDA...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... of the risk for low birth weight in Sao Paulo state and Brazil, the specific evaluation of the prenatal follow-up and control of these factors have not been widely and uniformly performed in Brazilian ... for an adequate follow-up and prevention of sequelae in these children should also be a political priority Therefore, the contribution of this study to the area is to show that risk factors for ... model”, which considered all factors involved in one only model simultaneously For multivariable analyses, p-value, calculated by Wald test, was considered significant for p ≤ 0.05 [29] To determine...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... risk factors indicates an urgent need for comprehensive and integrated interventions to reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in Bavi Social patterning of risk factors ... factors for chronic diseases Of particular interest are the associations we found between risk factors (hypertension, smoking, overweight, and combinations of these factors) and sociodemographic factors ... prevalence of three major preventable risk factors for chronic disease (high blood pressure, smoking, and being overweight) and the distribution of these risk factors by sociodemographic variables...

Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 06:20

... Dailey RA Factors affecting reproductive performance of dairy cows J Dairy Sci 1985, 68, 1793-1803 Correa MT, Curtis CR, Erb HN, Scarlett JM, Smith RD An ecological analysis of risk factors for postpartum ... are important risk factors for retained placenta, which increases the occurrence of postpartum endometritis and metabolic disorders, resulting in decreased reproductive performance in dairy herds ... reproductive performance appears to be due largely to an indirect effect through endometritis In conclusion, abnormal partus and short gestation periods are important risk factors for development...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... information on the herd’s health and management The health information included how many cows had disease, the mortality rate, the abortion rate and the vaccination history The management information ... performing multivariate logistic regression analysis To adjust for the clustering effect, a random effect approach was used to construct the logistic model The statistical analyses were performed ... Prevalence of, and risk factors for, brucellosis in Awassi sheep in Southern Jordan Small Rumin Res 2007, 73, 300-303 Al-Majali AM, Al-Qudah KM, Al-Tarazi YH, Al-Rawashdeh OF Risk factors associated...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... value The cut-off values were 3.5 g/dl for albumin, 34 IU/L for AST, 36 IU/L for ALT 94 IU/L ALK-P, 1.3 mg/dl for total bilirubin, 21 mg/dl for BUN, and 15 ng/ml for AFP Recurrence After being discharged ... literature Predictive factors for recurrence For the patients having tumor recurrence within years after hepatectomy, liver transplantation might be beneficial To determine the risk factors of tumor ... invasion before hepatectomy for HCC [20] Because vascular invasion was a poor prognostic factor of tumor recurrence both for hepatectomy and liver transplantation, liver transplantation for the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... hyperplastic lesions of the female breast A long-term follow-up study Cancer 1985, 55:2698-2708 Dupont WD, Page DL: Risk factors for breast cancer in women with proliferative breast disease New England ... http://www.wjso.com/content/7/1/77 sies were used for sonographically visible lesions, and were performed with patients in a supine or decubitus position using high-resolution sonography The biopsy was performed using a device ... were evaluated for size on imaging and presence of microcalcification Lesion size was defined as the greatest dimension on ultrasound imaging for most patients, or mammography size for patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... from non-small cell lung cancer with whole brain radiotherapy and Gefitinib in a Chinese population Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2009, 65:198-203 25 Hoskin PJ, Crow J, Ford HT: The influence ... 23 Kim YS, Kondziolka D, Flickinger JC, Lunsford LD: Stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with nonsmall cell lung carcinoma metastatic to the brain Cancer 1997, 80:2075-2083 24 Ma S, Xu Y, Deng ... (OS) by RT dose group for 53 BM patients with lung cancer We could not assess the long term neuro-cognitive effect of this RTB strategy, as only one center prospectively performed Mini Mental Status...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... and male Three cases are limited small cell lung cancer (SCLC), and are locally-advanced non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) All patients’ Karnofsky performance status (KPS) was 80 Five patients ... bronchi The following dosimetric parameters were generated from the DVH for total normal lung: mean lung dose (MLD), and lung volumes receiving more than Gy (V5), 10 Gy (V10), 20 Gy (V20), and ... Clinical characteristics of the 12 lung cancer patients Patient Sex Age Histology Stagea KPS Induction chemotherapy Concurrent chemotherapy F 51 small cell lung cancer IIIa T1N2M0 80 CE No F 50...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... non-small cell lung cancer, AC = adenocarcinoma, SCLC = small cell lung cancer Peguret et al Radiation Oncology 2011, 6:78 http://www.ro-journal.com/content/6/1/78 Page of Table Tumor to lung volume ... Physiological respiratory motion is a major challenge for lung cancer RT The range of motion can reach an average up to 12 ± mm for tumors in the lower lung lobes [18] Giraud et al., observed large diaphragm ... Conformal radiotherapy (CRT) planning for lung cancer (analysis of intrathoracic organ motion during extreme phases of breathing) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2001, 51(4):1081-1092 Page of 20 Forster...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... underestimation was 17.3% for IGTVMIP, 19.3% for IGTV2Phases, and 5.3% for IGTVMIP-Modified in stage I tumors and 12.1% for IGTVMIP, 8.9% for IGTV2Phases, and 4.2% for Figure illustrates the ... radiotherapy (IGRT) has allowed for more accurate tumor targeting, so it is rapidly replacing conventional radiotherapy for lung cancer [2] In order to account for tumor motion, the International ... parenchyma 0.88 0.81 0.91 4-D CT imaging to find the optimal approach for determining the patient-specific IGTV for SBRT for stage I lung cancer They found that the MIP-defined GTV was significantly larger...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... ZY: Strategy for dose escalation using 3dimensional conformal radiation therapy for lung cancer Ann Oncol 1995, 6:693-7 Armstrong J: Target volume definition for three-dimensional conformal radiation ... three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer Radiother Oncol 1997, 44:17-22 Beckendorf V, Elles S, Madelis G: Postoperative radiation therapy in lung cancer: clinical ... GL, Tamburrini O: Current status of PET/CT for tumour volume definition in radiotherapy treatment planning for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) Lung Cancer 2007, 57:125-134 Publish with Bio Med...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... to lung cancer patients With ongoing practice some 'rules' evolved, breaking some former "taboos" in radiotherapy of lung cancer: Minimizing the dose to the ipsilateral (i.e tumor bearing) lung ... cell lung cancer for three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy planning Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2000, 48:1015-1024 Youlden D, Cramb S, Baade P: The international epidemiology of lung cancer ... radiotherapy for lung cancer Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1995, 33:993-1000 Leibel S, Armstrong J, Kutcher G, Zelefsky M, Burman C, Mohan R, Ling C, Fuks Z: 3-D conformal radiation therapy for NSCLC...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20