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Open AccessFactors affecting early identification of pregnant women by community health workers in Morogoro, Tanzania
It is recommended that Antenatal Care (ANC) be initiated within the first trimester of pregnancy for essential interventions, such folic acid supplementation, to be effective. In Tanzania, only 24% of mothers ...
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Bone complications among prostate cancer survivors: long-term follow-up from the prostate cancer outcomes study
To assess the relationship between androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) exposure and self-reported bone complications among men in a population-based cohort of prostate cancer survivors followed for 15 years aft...
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Consensus Guidelines from The American Society of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies on Standardizing the Delivery of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) in Colorectal Cancer Patients in the United States
The American Society of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies (ASPSM) is a consortium of cancer centers performing cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). This is a position pap...
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A comprehensive review of incidence and survival in patients with rare histological variants of prostate cancer in the United States from 1973 to 2008
The American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC) identifies five rare variants of prostate adenocarcinoma: mucinous, ductal, signet ring cell, adenosquamous and neuroendocrine including small cell. No prior stud...
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The association of diabetes and positive prostate biopsy in a US veteran population
Several studies have shown a protective effect of diabetes mellitus (DM) on incidence of prostate cancer; however, the data are not consistent. Moreover, whether or not DM is associated with a positive result ...
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Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in the Management of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies of Colonic Origin: A Consensus Statement
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Differences in Treatment-Based Beliefs and Co** Between African American and White Men with Prostate Cancer
The purpose of the study was to explore racial differences related to treatment-based beliefs (trust in physician, physician bias, access to care, and self-efficacy) and co** (religious co** and social sup...
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Autologous transplantation for relapsed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma using intravenous busulfan and cyclophosphamide as conditioning regimen: a single center experience
High-dose chemotherapy with autologous SCT has become standard of care for patients with relapsed aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). To improve safety and efficacy of this treatment, new conditioning reg...
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Lack of survival benefit of post-operative radiation therapy in prostate cancer patients with positive lymph nodes
Randomized data from SWOG 8794 and EORTC 22911 confirm the benefit of post-operative radiation therapy (RT) for selected patients with pT3 prostate cancer (CaP) after radical prostatectomy (RP). However, data ...
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Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in the Management of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies of Colonic Origin: A Consensus Statement
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Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) presenting with an acquired lupus anticoagulant
There are few reports describing the association between antiphospholipid antibodies, including the lupus anticoagulant, and bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation. Autoimmune syndromes and autoan...
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Microsatellites in Zea – variability, patterns of mutations, and use for evolutionary studies
To evaluate the performance of microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) for evolutionary studies in Zea, 46 microsatellite loci originally derived from maize were applied to diverse arrays of populations...
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Modeling of the somatostatin receptor (hsst3)-ligand complex
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Studies of racemization in peptide synthesis for a phosphoryloxy-benzotriazin-one coupling reagent (DEPBT)
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Interleukin-2 therapy for advanced chronic myeloid leukemia
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is usually treated with either alpha-interferon or hydrea. Median survival is 6 years. Eventually, in most CML patients, the disease evolves to blast phase with clinical and morp...
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Interleukin-2 and leukemia
Leukemia has been treated with chemotherapy for the past 40 years with only moderate success. A growing body of evidence suggests that by augmenting the immune system more effective results may be obtained. Th...
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Analysis of the value of empiric vancomycin administration in febrile neutropenia occurring after autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplants
We conducted a retrospective review of 125 patients undergoing high-dose therapy and stem cell rescue in order to evaluate the incidence of documented infection and the utility of the administration of vancomy...
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Update on the Phylogenetic Systematics of New World Monkeys: Further DNA Evidence for Placing the Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella) within the Genus Callithrix
We determined DNA sequences spanning the 1.8-kb long intron 1 of the interstitial retinol-binding protein nuclear gene (IRBP) for Callithrix geoffroyi, Callithrix humeralifer, and Callithrix argentata. With the ...
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The relationship between personality and quality of life in persons with schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia
The goal of this study was to examine the effects of personality traits as measured by the NEO-PI on the quality of life (QOL) of persons with schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia. The premise of this re...
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Electron Beam Diagnostics Using X-Rays
The X-ray spatial distribution produced by an electron beam hitting a high Z target has been used as a diagnostic for many years. Quite early in the development of very short pulse X-ray systems we used it to ...