Serum vitamin D decreases during chemotherapy: an Australian prospective cohort study [PDF]
Background and Objectives: Vitamin D plays an important role in bone and muscle function, and cell prolifera-tion. The impact of chemotherapy and associated behavioural changes such as fatigue and sun avoidance on vit-amin D (25(OH) D) is unknown.
Isenring, Elisabeth+9 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance of Gram-negative Microorganisms Causing Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections in Russia [PDF]
Objective. To assess antimicrobial resistance of gram-negative microorganisms causing complicated intra-abdominal infections (IAI) in Russia. Materials and Methods.
Kozlov R.S.+4 more
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After a discussion of the principles of antiviral chemotherapy, treatment and chemoprophylaxis of the following virus infections are reviewed in detail: the various manifestations of herpes simplex virus infections, varicella-zoster, cytomegalovirus infections, Epstein-Barr virus infections, laryngeal papillomas, and influenza A.
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A Concurrent Comparison of Isoniazid plus PAS with Three Regimens of Isoniazid Alone in the Domiciliary Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in South India [PDF]
Recent studies have shown that treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis with isoniazid plus p-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) at home is, in the majority of cases, as satisfactory as treatment with the same combination of drugs in sanatorium and does not appear ...
Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre, Madras
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BEV-IP : perioperative chemotherapy with bevacizumab in patients undergoing cytoreduction and intraperitoneal chemoperfusion for colorectal carcinomatosis [PDF]
Background: Selected patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) from colorectal cancer (CRC) benefit from cytoreductive surgery (CRS) combined with intraperitoneal chemoperfusion (IPC).
Ceelen, Wim+3 more
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Recent progress in nanomedicine for enhanced cancer chemotherapy
As one of the most important cancer treatment strategies, conventional chemotherapy has substantial side effects and leads easily to cancer treatment failure. Therefore, exploring and developing more efficient methods to enhance cancer chemotherapy is an
Guoqing Wei+4 more
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ROS1 rearrangement is observed in 1–2% of non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC). The ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) crizotinib has induced marked tumour shrinkage in ROS1-rearranged cancers.
Hayato Ogura+5 more
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The unfolded protein response (UPR) is an adaptive stress response pathway that is essential for cancer cell survival under endoplasmic reticulum stress such as during glucose starvation.
Kazuhiro Kunimasa+8 more
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Optimal chemotherapy and immunotherapy schedules for a cancer-obesity model with Caputo time fractional derivative [PDF]
This work presents a new mathematical model to depict the effect of obesity on cancerous tumor growth when chemotherapy as well as immunotherapy have been administered. We consider an optimal control problem to destroy the tumor population and minimize the drug dose over a finite time interval.
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Controlled Comparison of Oral Twice-weekly and Oral Daily Isoniazid plus PAS in Newly Diagnosed Pulmonary Tuberculosis [PDF]
A controlled clinical trial was undertaken in 247 patients with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis to assess the relative efficacies of a fully supervised twice-weekly oral regimen of isoniazid plus PAS (para-aminosalicylic acid) and a standard ...
Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre, Madras
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