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Recent advances in managing differentiated thyroid cancer [PDF]

, 2018
The main clinical challenge in the management of thyroid cancer is to avoid over-treatment and over-diagnosis in patients with lower-risk disease while promptly identifying those patients with more advanced or high-risk disease requiring aggressive ...
Durante, Cosimo, Filetti, Sebastiano, Grani, Giorgio, Lamartina, Livia   +3 more
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Molecular chaperones: Toward new therapeutic tools

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2011
Molecular chaperones (or heat shock proteins) are evolutionarily conserved and essential proteins that play a key role in cell survival through cytoprotective mechanisms. Despite their possible clinical applications, the understanding of these structures is still quite limited.
Mauro B, Almeida, José Luiz Martins, do Nascimento, Anderson Manoel, Herculano, Maria Elena, Crespo-López   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orthodontics as a therapeutic tool for managing sleep apnea: A review

Journal of Craniomaxillofacial Research, 2020
Introduction: Sleep apnea is a disorder in which the person’s breathing is interrupted periodically  at night due to the physical blockage of the airway. Determining the best way to treat their  sleep disorders requires careful studies, tests, counseling
Amir Hossein Mirhashemi, Sepideh Arab, Rashin Bahrami   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optogenetics and deep brain stimulation neurotechnologies [PDF]

, 2015
Brain neural network is composed of densely packed, intricately wired neurons whose activity patterns ultimately give rise to every behavior, thought, or emotion that we experience. Over the past decade, a novel neurotechnique, optogenetics that combines
A Berndt, A Berndt, A Priori, AA Kuhn, AA Kuhn, AS Chuong, B Sauer, B Wingeier, BY Chow, BY Chow, C Bamann, D Luo, D Oesterhelt, D Oesterhelt, D Williams, ES Boyden, EY Uc, F Zhang, F Zhang, G Foffani, G Miesenbock, G Nagel, J Cavanaugh, J Mobley, J Volkmann, J Wells, J Wietek, JG Bernstein, JG Bernstein, JG Bernstein, JL Spudich, JL Spudich, JO Dostrovsky, JZ Tsien, L Bekar, L Madisen, LA Gunaydin, M Weinberger, M Weinberger, MC Rodriguez-Oroz, MJ Lehmkuhle, ML Welter, MM Doroudchi, O Yizhar, P Brown, P Silberstein, R Levy, R Levy, R Levy, R Waehler, S Zhao, TW Chen, VC Anderson, X Han, X Han, X Han, X Han, X Han, X Liu   +58 more
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relational use of an electronic quality of life and practice support system in hospital palliative consult care: a pilot study [PDF]

, 2018
Objectives: This study is part of an overarching research initiative on the development and integration of an electronic Quality of Life and Practice Support System (QPSS) that uses patient-reported outcome and experience measures in clinical practice.
Krawczyk, Marian, Sawatzky, Richard
core   +1 more source

Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multivalent Aptamers: Versatile Tools for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications

Molecules, 2016
Nucleic acid aptamers generated through an in vitro selection are currently extensively applied as very valuable biomolecular tools thanks to their prominent advantages. Diversity of spatial structures, ease of production through chemical synthesis and a
Mariya Vorobyeva, Pavel Vorobjev, Alya Venyaminova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source