Assessing Vividness of Mental Imagery: The Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire [PDF]
Publisher allows archiving of submitted msMental imagery may occur in any sensory modality, although visual imagery has been most studied. A sensitive measure of the vividness of imagery across a range of modalities is needed: the shorter version of Bett’
Andrade+81 more
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The factors that influence adherence of pregnant women with HIV/AIDS to anti-retroviral therapy [PDF]
Objective: To learn the experiences of pregnant women with HIV/AIDS in relation to adherence to antiretroviral therapy in two public hospitals of reference for HIV/AIDS in Fortaleza-CE, Brazil.
Valéria Lima de Barros+5 more
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Primary endocrine therapy of locally advanced breast cancer patients [PDF]
Primary endocrine therapy has been traditionally reserved for elderly and unfit locally advanced breast cancer patients (LABC patients). In this group, the primary endocrine therapy could not be adequately compared to primary chemotherapy.
Nešković-Konstantinović Zora B.
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The newer opioid agonist treatment with lower substitutive opiate doses is associated with better toxicology outcome than the older harm reduction treatment [PDF]
Background: Charge-free heroin use disorder treatment in Italy follows two main approaches, i.e., harm reduction treatment (HRT) strategy in community low-threshold facilities for drug addiction and opioid agonist treatment (OAT) in high-threshold ...
Bacciardi, Silvia+8 more
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Multimodality Treatment with Conventional Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization and Radiofrequency Ablation for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma [PDF]
Background/Aims: To evaluate the efficacy of multimodality treatment consisting of conventional transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in patients with non-resectable and non-ablatable hepatocellular carcinoma ...
Albrecht T+48 more
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The management of muscle invasive bladder cancer represents an unresolved clinical challenge. Invasive urothelial carcinomas are associated with high mortality rates and early metastatic disease.
Joshua Luck
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A CASE REPORT OF SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF STAGE IV ESOPHAGEAL CANCER
Background. Esophageal cancer is among the ten most common cancers and causes-related mortality worldwide. Most patients present with an advanced stage tumor at diagnosis.
V. N. Khmelevskaya+2 more
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Modelling the efficacy of hyperthermia treatment [PDF]
Multimodal oncological strategies which combine chemotherapy or radiotherapy with hyperthermia have a potential of improving the efficacy of the non-surgical methods of cancer treatment. Hyperthermia engages the heat-shock response mechanism (HSR), main component of which are heat-shock proteins (HSP). Cancer cells have already partially activated HSR,
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Bringing high-grade arteriovenous malformations under control: clinical outcomes following multimodality treatment in children. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE:Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) consist of dysplastic blood vessels with direct arteriovenous shunts that can hemorrhage spontaneously.
Abla, Adib A+16 more
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Background/AimsTo evaluate the prognostic impact of the lymph node ratio (LNR: the ratio of positive lymph nodes to the total number of lymph nodes examined) on disease recurrence and survival among rectal cancer patients who received curative surgery ...
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