Published in Agron. J. 103:1090–1099 (2011) Posted online 2 May 2011 doi:10.2134/agronj2010.0395 Copyright © 2011 by the American Society of Agronomy, 5585 Guilford Road, Madison, WI 53711. All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retri...

Purpose Current treatment for children with polyarticular forms of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (Poly JIA) results in approximately 50% of the patients demonstrating clinically inactive disease (CID) (Wallace C, et al. J Rheumatol 2004;31:2290-4) while on treatment. Over 40% of the children with Poly JIA are treated with a TNF antagonist biologic often started ≤ 6 months (mos) of disease onset...

Cancer immunotherapies have shown considerable promise in pre-clinical studies, but the potency of these interventions has often proved disappointing in vivo. This is in part due to tumor infiltration by myeloid cells, which are usually associated with less favorable clinical outcomes. In the past decade, several distinct subsets of tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells have been described (Movahedi...

background: breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among the women worldwide. the risk of local and distant recurrence is the highest during the first two years following the initial treatment. very late relapse (after 12 years) is uncommon in breast cancer survivors. methods: herein, we report the characteristics and outcomes of 6 such cases of breast can...

Cancer is the third most common cause of death following cardiovascular disease and accident (Mohebbi et al., 2008; Moradpour and Fatemi, 2013) and gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are the most frequent cancers among males and second to females’ breast cancer in Iran (Mohebbi et al., 2011). The epidemiological characteristic of upper GI cancer has markedly changed over recent decades so that oesop...

Continued tobacco use after a cancer diagnosis has been associated with various detrimental clinical outcomes such as shorter survival (Videtic et al., 2003; Fox et al., 2004; Sardari Nia et al., 2005; Zhou et al., 2006; Nguyenet al., 2010; Parsonset al., 2010; Kenfield, et al., 2011); increased risk of tumor recurrence or development of secondary malignancies (Do et al., 2003; Kawaguchi et al....