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... on number of brain metastases. Elaimy et al. World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2011, 9:69 http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/69 Page 5 of 9 brain metastases, and tumor volume of brain metastases. The ... tumor histology, number of brain metastases, and volume of brain metas- tases have on the survival of patients diagnosed with brain metastases. Multivariate analysis of treatment regi- mens showed ... 4). Treatment regimens were prescribed based on the patient’ s performance status, age, control of primary cancer, presence of extracranial disease, number of brain metastases, size of brain metastases, ...

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... Details of Irinotecan DC/LC Bead Treatment. Variable patients N N of treatments = 99 Total # of patients = 55 One treatment 55(100%) Two treatments 28 (50%) Three treatments 12(9%) ≥Four treatments ... the date of diagnosis of metastases was 3.4 years the median survival time from the start of TACE treatment was 1.34 years. The median survival time of the palliative group was 1.4 years, of the symptomatic ... here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/publishing_adv.asp BioMedcentral World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009, 7:80 http://www.wjso.com/content/7/1/80 Page 12 of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Treatment of Cancer, National Cancer Institute of the United...

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... exhaust gas treatment. They were devided into two categories: treatments of single pollutant and simultaneous treatment of pollutants. 1.2.1 Separated treatment of pollutants 1.2.1.1 CO treatments ... Composition of exhaust gas 13 1.2 Treatments of air pollution 14 1.2.1 Separated treatment of pollutants 14 1.2.1.1 CO treatments 14 1.2.1.2 VOCs treatments 14 1.2.1.3 NO x treatments 14 ... activity of three-way catalysts based on mixed metal oxides for the treatment of exhaust gases from internal combustion engine Nguyen The Tien 3 CONTENT OF THESIS LIST OF TABLES 6 LIST OF FIGURES...

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... metastasis from SCC of the cervix is an extremely uncommon ‘malignant’ cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Yet, accurate recognition of such unusual patterns of metastases in cervical cancer ... USA only 0.4% of all cancers are in the small bowel, making up 0.2% of all cancer- related deaths [1]. Malignant tumors of the small bowel are unusual, and account for only 1-5% of all GI tract ... confirming the duodenal metastases. The clinical presentation of a ‘malignant' upper-gastrointestinal bleed due to duodenal metastases from SCC of the cervix is unusual. Awareness of such infrequent...

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... success of chemotherapy will hinge on the development of new agents that have improved penetration into CNS. CNS effects of radiation therapy for brain metastases WBRT, the standard of care for brain ... be used as a marker of neu- ronal damage. Elevated levels have been found in patients with brain metastases from both small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) [76]. A multi- center ... current management of brain metastases, summarize the data on the CNS effects associated with brain metastases and whole brain radiation therapy in these patients, discuss the use of neuropsychological...

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... trial comparing two types of consolidation chemotherapy after concurrent chemoradiotherapy for limited-disease small cell lung cancer. RT requirements included a total dose of 45 Gy/30 fx (bis in ... 60% of the cases [6]. JCOG 0202 was a multi-center phase III trial comparing two types of consolidation chemotherapy after concurrent chemoradiotherapy for limited-disease small cell lung cancer ... 1 of 5 (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation Oncology Open Access Research Radiotherapy quality assurance review in a multi-center randomized trial of limited-disease small cell lung...

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... with NSCLC 14 1.5 Radical radiotherapy alone for treatment of NSCLC 15 1.6 Chemotherapy for patients with NSCLC 15 1.7 Combination treatment for NSCLC 16 1.8 Treatment of small-cell lung cancer ... men, who account for 60% of lung cancer cases. In women, lung cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death after breast cancer. Survival rates for lung cancer are very poor. In England, ... than those of the USA. Lung cancers are classified into two main categories: small-cell lung cancers (SCLC), which account for about 20% of cases, and non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLC) , which...

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... immunotoxins constructed from Pseudomonas exotoxin A for the treatment of cancer John E. Weldon and Ira Pastan Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, ... 50% (7 ⁄ 14) of patients showed a partial response to treatment. The future of PE-based RITs Many obstacles have been overcome in the develop- ment of RITs for the treatment of cancer, and striking responses ... variety of ways, from changing the number of receptor sites per cell to altering the rate of internali- zation of the receptor or influencing the intracellular trafficking. The proteome of the target...

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... revealing various spectral peaks of lung cancer cell lines to better discriminate between the normal and lung cancer cells. The vibrational spectra of lung cancer cells were analyzed by attenuated ... phosphorylation Introduction Cancer is the principal causes of death worldwide according to the World Health Organization, with lung cancer being one of the most commonly diagnosed types of cancer in men ... Korea The vibrational spectral differences of normal and lung cancer cells were studied for the development of effective cancer cell screening by means of attenuated total reflection infrared...

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... dosimetric comparison of MammoSite high-dose-rate brachytherapy and Xoft Axxentđ electronic brachytherapy. Brachytherapy 2007, 6:164-168. 19. Dickler A: Xoft Axxentđ electronic brachytherapy: a new ... perspectives from a prospective, nonrandomized, multicenter study of breast conserving surgery and adjuvant electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of breast cancer. World Journal of Surgical ... char- acteristics of both groups are shown in Table 2. The majority of patients were post-menopausal Caucasian women with no prior history of cancer and no family history of breast cancer. The study...

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... diagnosis and in the monitoring of response to systemic therapy) , and identification of the pattern of changes of serum FA-2 levels in relation to bis- phosphonate therapy and events such as hypercalcaemia are ... markers. Br J Cancer 1991, 64:757-63. 6. Dixon AR: Tumour markers - a logical approach to the guidance of therapy in advanced breast cancer? In Doctor of Medicine Thesis University of Nottingham; ... be the circulating form of the aminopropeptide of the alpha 1 chain of procollagen type I. Serum concentrations of FA-2 appeared to be elevated in a number of disorders of bone metabolism. This...

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... 1 Department of Radiation Therapy, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Department of Radiation ... broad overview of all the tech- nical aspects of stereotactic radiotherapy for early stage lung cancer. Our aim was to develop widely applicable guidelines in view of the number of stereotactic ... for lung tumour treatment plans, and generally increase with decreasing field size, which is especially relevant in stereotactic radiotherapy of stage 1A lung tumours. Thus, depending on the treatment planning...

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