role of hpv infections in head and neck cancer

... conflicting results, and including head and neck tumors [7,19,20] The only statistically significant clinical variable associated to increased number of lymph node metastasis was the presence of previous ... of the head and neck Head Neck 2006, 28:785-791 O'Brien CJ, McNeil EB, McMahon JD, Pathak I, Lauer CS: Incidence of cervical node involvement in metastatic cutaneous malignancy involving the ... involving the parotid gland Head Neck 2001, 23:744-748 Joseph MG, Zulueta WP, Kennedy PJ: Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the skin of the trunk and limbs: The incidence of metastases and their outcome Aust...

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... duration of remission [12] Our findings point to three distinct factors that appear to be involved in affecting the time to normalization of PSA after treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer ... radiotherapy and NAAD [6,7] However, there is little in the peerreviewed literature describing the effect upon PSA normalization of using NAAD in conjunction with IMRT in prostate cancer The purpose of ... reason to think more seriously about expanding the role of NAAD therapy in these patients Further study is needed to elucidate whether the rate of PSA normalization is linked to notable endpoints such...

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... completion of FSRT In this patient, a dose of 52.2 Gy had been applied, in single doses of 1.8 Gy Visual outcome Prior to RT, 29 patients complained about any kind of visual impairment including visual ... Optociliary veins in optic nerve sheath meningioma Indocyanine green videoangiography findings Ophthalmology 1999, 106:311-8 14 Clark WC, Theofilos CS, Fleming JC: Primary optic nerve sheath meningiomas ... followed, and patients with remaining useful vision and no tumor progression have been observed in the past [13] One main risk associated with surgery is the often inevitable dissection of the vascular...

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... Genetic and expression profiles of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck correlate with cisplatin sensitivity and resistance in cell lines and patients Clin Cancer Res 2004, 10:8204-8213 Ginos ... cluster and percentage of hits in the entire human promoters of GPD for that model [116] dIncluding 17 input genes with predicted p53 binding sites in cluster A p53 is shown in bold eIncluding 26 input ... which included 17 genes with p53 binding sites in cluster A and 26 genes with NF-κB binding sites in cluster B In cluster A genes with p53 binding sites, putative models containing three and four...

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... structure of pea H-protein showing the N-terminus and the position of the lipoyl arm Fig S2 Overexpression and effects on H-protein of E coli lipoate–protein ligase A Fig S3 Glycine saturation kinetics ... of 50 lm recombinant FtGLDH to assays containing matrix 6986 Fig SDS–PAGE with recombinant H-proteins from Flaveria trinervia, Arabidopsis thaliana and Synechocystis, and recombinant P-protein ... sense and antisense primers were extended by NdeI and HindIII sites (underlined), respectively After initial cloning of the PCR amplificates into pGEM-T, coding sequences were excised and ligated into...

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... 1.5 and were thus defined as having a high expression of ERCC1 As can be seen in Table a summary of result of the ERCC1 immunostaining of the cancer cells and its correlation with the clinicopathologic ... hepatic and renal function (creatinine clearance >60 ml/min), and a computed tomography or magnetic resonance image scan of the head and neck region within three weeks prior to the initiation of treatment ... predicts cisplatinbased chemotherapy resistance and poor outcome in unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck in a betel-chewing area Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:31 ...

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... GRAMBLING BLACK AND GOLD FOUNDATION, INC NOTES TO 1HE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED NOTE - Jjummarv of Significant Accounting Policies Continued: Basis of Reporting Continued A description of ... Policies Continued: Basis of Reporting Continued Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles.generally accepted in the United States of America ... and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and. expenses during the reporting period Actual...

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... staining (data not shown) Her2 staining was scored based on the scoring system applied to breast cancers, with scores of 0,+1, +2, +3 for increasing intensity and “continuity” of staining of ... difference of antibodies used for staining or method of assessment for determination of Her3 status So far, there are no standardized methods of Her3 staining and scoring, our findings suggest ... qualitative interpretation of both membranous and cytoplasmic staining Her2 (membranous) staining and Her3 membranous staining were scored according to the commonly applied criteria of Her2 membranous...

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... 1.5 and were thus defined as having a high expression of ERCC1 As can be seen in Table a summary of result of the ERCC1 immunostaining of the cancer cells and its correlation with the clinicopathologic ... hepatic and renal function (creatinine clearance >60 ml/min), and a computed tomography or magnetic resonance image scan of the head and neck region within three weeks prior to the initiation of treatment ... predicts cisplatinbased chemotherapy resistance and poor outcome in unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck in a betel-chewing area Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:31 ...

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... staining (data not shown) Her2 staining was scored based on the scoring system applied to breast cancers, with scores of 0,+1, +2, +3 for increasing intensity and “continuity” of staining of ... difference of antibodies used for staining or method of assessment for determination of Her3 status So far, there are no standardized methods of Her3 staining and scoring, our findings suggest ... qualitative interpretation of both membranous and cytoplasmic staining Her2 (membranous) staining and Her3 membranous staining were scored according to the commonly applied criteria of Her2 membranous...

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... (1) and (2), h describes an incomplete and noisy observation model, and both w and v are uncorrelated white noises of the system and measurement model, respectively During the UT, sigma points, ... to the matrix X L (L being the iteration number), in the order of the highest to the lowest sensitivity To make the adjustment of the net influence of each of the remaining parameters on the already ... recursion the availability of new information during the parameter estimation in UKF correlates to a general decrease in the uncertainty within the system [21], making the standard deviation a feasible...

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... has been studying in the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of University of Patras, Greece, since 2001, and he is currently in his last year of studies His interests include wireless ... for variable number of contending stations, basic and handshaking access, and the several access classes Every terminal is assumed to demand all four classes of access In case of saturation analysis, ... electrical and computer engineering, Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002) He is currently in the process of defending his Ph.D thesis in telecommunications in the School of...

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... Deutsch and I Yamada, Minimizing certain convex functions over the intersection of the fixed point sets of nonexpansive mappings, Numer Funct Anal Optim 19 (1998), no 1-2, 33–56 K Goebel and W A ... approximation of fixed points of compositions of nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert space, J Math Anal Appl 202 (1996), no 1, 150–159 F E Browder, Convergence of approximants to fixed points of nonexpansive ... retraction if Q2 = Q If a mapping Q of C into itself is a retraction, then Qz = z for every z ∈ R(Q), where R(Q) is range of Q Let D be a subset of C and let Q be a mapping of C into D Then Q is said...

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... invasive perineal squamous cell carcinoma (B) Blue-stained inguinal sentinel lymph node Figure Wide excision of perineal squamous cell carcinoma: H&E staining at 2X (A) and 40X (B) Sentinel lymph ... Gabrielli F, Migliano E, Pagan M, Concolino F, Ruatti P: Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node identification in squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma of the head and neck Tumori 2002, 88:S39-41 29 Tartaglione ... H&E staining, there was no evidence of metastatic carcinoma in any of the submitted lymph nodes Immunostaining was performed with pancytokeratin in three cases which showed no evidence of micrometastatic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... an intensive validation at planning level, compared to IMRT or other approaches, in a series of studies including brain tumours, prostate, head and neck, mesothelioma, cervix uteri and other indications ... extension of disease and the presence of surrounding HT makes it often difficult to deliver high doses with curative intent Based on the results of an intensive program of preclinical investigations ... reports the early findings from the treatment of a group of 24 patients affected by advanced lung cancer irradiated with RapidArc The main objective in the initial clinical introduction of RA is the...

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... preservation in pyriform sinus cancer: preliminary results of a European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer phase III trial EORTC Head and Neck Cancer Cooperative Group J Natl Cancer Inst ... risk of tumour involvement; this was by autoexpanding the GTV by 10-20 mm, individualising this to exclude areas of air or bone without evidence of tumour invasion, and expanding the CTV to include ... Urba S, Lin A, Schipper MJ, Wolf GT: Recurrences near base of skull after IMRT for head- and- neck cancer: implications for target delineation in high neck and for parotid gland sparing Int J Radiat...

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... 3DCRT in terms of parotid gland sparing The IMRT technique should therefore represent the standard of care for the treatment of head and neck tumors Parotid-gland-sparing up to mean doses of 26 ... treatment of carcinomas of the oral cavity, the oropharynx, and the larynx/ hypopharynx, the sparing of submandibular salivary glands can only be taken into consideration in special cases Sparing of ... of the parotids, and thus on the saliva flow and recovery of parotid gland Keywords head and neck cancer; irradiation, saliva; hyposalivation; parotid gland sparing; recovery Background Sparing...

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... fluorouracil and radiotherapy, and of salvage chemoradiation in the definitive nonsurgical treatment of epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal: results of a phase III randomized intergroup study J Clin ... Treatment of Cancer Radiotherapy and Gastrointestinal Cooperative Groups J Clin Oncol 1997 May;15(5):2040-9 Flam M, John M, Pajak TF, Petrelli N, Myerson R, Doggett S, et al Role of mitomycin in combination ... administered in anal cancer clinical trials Data on the biologic effects and clinical outcomes of such low doses are lacking Historically, anal cancers were treated with surgical therapy involving...

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... Role of mitomycin in combination with fluorouracil and radiotherapy, and of salvage chemoradiation in the definitive nonsurgical treatment of epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal: results of ... Comparison of OAR sparing between IMRT and conventional 3D plans Incorporation of IMRT in phase or in phase and significantly reduced the volume of bladder and genitalia/ perineum receiving ≥ 30 Gy and ... staged T1-3 N0-1 and the remaining five were T4 and/ or N2-3 tumors according to the 6th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging manual Details of staging are shown in Table Patients...

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