... 2002 Lungcancer is the most common cause ofcancer death for men, who account for 60% oflungcancer cases In women, lungcancer is the second most common cause ofcancer death after breast cancer ... for lungcancer are very poor In England, for patients diagnosed between 1993 and 1995 and followed up to 2000, 21.4% of men and 21.8% of women with lungcancer were alive year after diagnosisand ... member of a lungcancer MDT (usually a chest physician) D 1.10.2 The care of all patients with a working diagnosisoflungcancer should be discussed at a lungcancer MDT meeting D 1.10.3 Early diagnosis...
... of the logisticregression for J ordinal classes involves a model with J − response curves of the same shape For a fixed class j, each of these response functions is comparable to a logisticregression ... appearance of the CEFR, FFL textbooks have undergone a kind of standardisation and their levels have been clarified It is thus feasible to gather a large number of documents already labelled in terms of ... M Lange, and I Van Wijnendaele 2000 The effects of age -of- acquisition and frequency -of- occurrence in visual word recognition: Further evidence from the Dutch language European Journal of Cognitive...
... 4-11 Lungcancer mortality ratios for males, by age of smoking initiation prospective studies 4-12 Relationship between risk oflungcancerand number of ... oflungcancer in some large cohort studies among men smoking cigarettes and other types of tobacco 4-15 Age-adjusted lungcancer mortality ratios for males and ... of ETS: characteristics 5-8 5-4 Diagnosis, confirmation, and exclusion oflungcancer cases 5-12 5-5 Estimated relative risk of lung...
... where lungcancer rates are high because of unvented indoor burning of coal for heating and cooking in homes (22) The effect of tobacco on lungcancer risk in that study was weak in the presence of ... study of U.S railroad workers andlungcancerCancer Causes Control 2006;17(7):911–919 Emmelin A, Nystrom L, Wall S Diesel exhaust exposure and smoking: a case-referent study oflungcancer ... Division ofCancer 14 Article | JNCI Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA (JHL, RGZ, SW); Formerly of Division ofCancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer...
... the upper lung field, and the rest of the lung as the lower lung field The tumor movement in the lower lung field was much greater than in the upper lung field in the CC direction (Table and Figure ... first and third fractions of SBRT to evaluate the accuracy of reproducibility of patient and tumor position, and any positioning error was corrected; patients were then transferred to the treatment ... with an average of 26 mm Of the 55 lesions, tumor location was the right upper, middle and lower lobes in 17, and 13 cases, respectively, and the left upper and lower lobes in 13 and 10 cases,...
... (HITT) became attractive methods for local ablation of liver andlung tumors [3,4] Findings of the first studies of LITT and HITT treatments oflung tumors have recently been published [5,6] This ... irradiation oflung metastases or of primary lungcancer (log rank test) Side effects The median volume encompassed by the Gy isodose was 9.1% of total lung volume (range: 2.2 to 23.1%) The 12 Gy and ... experience of this approach is scanty Results of single-dose irradiation oflung tumors have been published by Hara et al [14] and Hof et al [15] – studies involving patient collectives of 19 and 10...
... Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2011, 30:30 http://www.jeccr.com/content/30/1/30 PCR Amplification and sequencing The two codons of KRAS (12 and 13) and two exons of EGFR (19 and ... Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin 300060, China 4Tianjin Diagnosisand Therapy Center ofLung Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China Authors’ contributions ZZ, CW and BS designed the study; LS and QZ performed ... for the treatmentof patients with NSCLC Materials and methods Page of amount of tumor cells in order to ensure that they contained more than 70% of tumor components for DNA extraction and mutation...
... [3] On the other hand, COX-2 could induce the activation and expression of EGFR The lack of correlation of EGFR and COX-2 expression in our study implied that the expression of these proteins ... expression of angiogenic cxc chemokines ena-78/cxc ligand (cxcl) and interleukin-8/cxcl8 in human non-small cell lungcancerCancer Res 2004, 64:1853-1860 20 Leahy KM, Koki AT, Masferrer JL: Role of ... between EGFR expression and COX-2 in our study, though both EGFR and COX-2 involve in the carcinogenesis and progression of NSCLC Li et al Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2011,...
... Yali, Xu Feng, Wang Jin: EGFR and COX-2 protein expression in non-small cell lungcancerand the correlation with clinical features Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2011, 30:27 ... Li et al.: Correction: EGFR and COX-2 protein expression in non-small cell lungcancerand the correlation with clinical features Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2011 30:32 ... al Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2011, 30:32 http://www.jeccr.com/content/30/1/32 Table (corrected table 3) EGFR expression and clinical characteristics Page of Table (corrected...
... are listed at the end of this volume Surgical Options for the TreatmentofHeart Failure edited by ROY G MASTERS, MD FRCSC Division of Cardiac Surgery; University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ... University of Ottawa, Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada Patrick M McCarthy Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A Toiy Mussivand ... book is a timely and useful contribution to the overall knowledge of the management of the heart failure patient and provides a useful and worthwhile read for every cardiac surgeon of the day Wilbert...
... Epidemiological aspects ofheart failure Cardiol Clin 1989;7:1-9 Guidelines for the evaluation and management ofheart failure Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association ... understanding of the pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in the genesis ofheart failure is necessarv' for a clearer rationale for pharmacologic treatmentand development of new agents and procedures ... of congestive heart failure and the stage of the heart failure Tlie activation of the sympathetic nervous system is accompanied by the activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and...
... perioperative preservation of ventricular fiinction The treatmentof congestive heart failure has improved dramatically as well, especially in the recognition of the importance oftreatment with aftcrload ... posterior near the base of the heartand nearly one-half of these are false aneurvsms.''*•"*•'•" Natural History and Survival fhe complexities of coronaiy aileiy di.sease and the difliculties vvitli ... complete excision of the subvalvular apparatus.''" " * •fhe issues of depression of ejection fraction from elimination of the low-pressure decompression into the left atrium andof interference...
... most of these patients"' Although many patients have to litres of excess fluid at the time of evaluation, the lungs are usually clear of rales in chronic heart failure and peripheral edema and ... include the presence of right coronary stenosis (> 75%) and the fiinction of posterior basal left ventncle and negative coefficients include the presence of angina and the number of bypass grafts."''" ... entire circumference of tlie base of the aiiemysin at tlie junction of scar and noirnal myocardiuriL The degi^ee of tigblening of this suture will detenmne the final size of the remaining opening...
... transplantation for treatmentof advanced heart failure: effective use of vasodilators and diuretics J HeartLung Transplant 1991:10:468 21 Stevenson LW, Perloff JK The limited reliability of physical ... evaluation ofheart transplantation candidates: an international survey of process, criteria and outcomes J HeartLung Transplant 1991,10:948 Rodriguez MD, Colon A, Santiago-Delphin EA Psychosocial profile ... Registry of the International Society for HeartandLung Transplantation added 20 new transplantation programs and a total of 7073 additional thoracic organ recipients All of the national and multinational...
... For heart -lung retransplantation the outcomes are even worse, with siir\'ival rates of 33% and 30% and years, respectively Tables VII and VIII present tlie results of the multivariate logisticregression ... recipients Heart -Lung Tranplantatioii Figure 21 shows tlie number ofheart -lung trasnplantations reported to the registrv' from 1982 to 1997 and the average donor age over this period The number ofheart -lung ... infection and bronchiolitis obliterans are the pnncipal causes of death CAV does account for a small mmorit}' of deaths (3%) late after heart -lung transplantation Lung Transplantation Although lung...
... is capable of generating 65 ml of stroke volume and flow outputs of up to Lpm It does so by generating negative and positive pressures to fill and empty the VAD It operates in one of three modes ... sti-oke volume of 85cc's and are thus capable of generating flows of up to 12 and 10 Lpm respectively They can both be operated in the automatic and fixed-rate modes In addition, the IP-HeartMate ... Surgical Options for the Treatment ofHeart Failure l^-l 35 ® 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers Printed m the Netherlands 118 J Helou andR Kormos Indications for Mechanical Assist and Patient Selection...
... surgical approaches to heart failure, the safe and effective pertbnnance of DCMP requires a dedicated team of medical professionals accustomed to the delicate needs ofheart failure patients ... problem faced is one of patient crossover and the refusal of randomization After all, once the patient has been mentally prepared for the procedure and then is randomized to medical treatment, it becomes ... Framischelli and R C.-J Chiu amounts to trial and error Cardiomyoplasty, however, has reaped the rewards of completing a Phase and II clinical trial through a maturation of technique and a renewed...
... National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U S Department of Health and Human Services, 1994 Guy IS F'volution and the current status of the total artificial heart: ... - APA, 169 hDAF, 168 heart failure, heart transplantation (HTx), 26 heart transplantations; 41, 93 heart -lung transplantations, 93, 104 HeartMate, 86 HeartMate LVAD, 126 Heartsaver VAD, 182 hemolysis, ... Angiography 1983 J Morganroth and E.N Moore (eds.): Sudden Cardiac Death and Congestive Heart Failure DiagnosisandTreatment Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on New Drugs and Devices, held in Philadelphia,...