Increasing evidence indicates that inflammation may play important roles in tumorigenesis and progression, and an elevated peripheral monocyte count predicts a poor prognosis in various types of malignancies. Here, we evaluate the roles of peripheral monocyte count in the diagnosis and prognosis for prostate cancer in Chinese patients. A total of 1107 consecutive patients who had undergone pros...

BACKGROUND The relationship between perioperative allogeneic blood transfusions (PABTs) and prognosis in patients with gastric cancer remains controversial. METHODS Six hundred five consecutive patients with gastric cancer who underwent curative gastrectomy from a single center were enrolled in this retrospective study. Clinical and pathologic variables were prospectively collected. The effec...

A follow-up study was conducted on a sample of 120 ethnically diverse HIV-positive men and women first interviewed in 2000. Participant survival and death rates were ascertained from death records and analyses were performed to identify demographic and psychosocial predictors of survival from the original data. Consistent with past studies, factors associated with survival were age, CD4 count, ...

introduction: acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a clonal disease characterized by heterogeneous involvement of hematopoietic bone marrow cell populations. in aml patients, a variety of clinical and biologic parameters, including surface markers, have been examinedfor potential value in predicting treatment response and survival. by checking the myeloid, lymphoid and nonspecific markers on the bla...

BACKGROUND Digestive cancers are common malignancies worldwide, however there are few effective prognostic markers available. In this study we comprehensively investigated the prognostic significance of ZEB1 and ZEB2 in digestive cancers. METHODS Electronic databases were searched and studies met the selection criteria were included. Study information was recorded and quality assessment was p...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess the cost-effectiveness of captopril therapy for survivors of myocardial infarction. BACKGROUND The recent randomized, controlled Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) trial showed that captopril therapy improves survival in survivors of myocardial infarction with an ejection fraction < or = 40%. The present ancillary study was designed to determine...

regenerative endodontic procedure is introduced as a biologically based treatment for immature teeth with pulp necrosis. successful clinical and radiographic outcomes following regenerative procedures have been reported in landmark case reports. retrospective studies have shown that this conservative treatment allows for continued root development and increases success and survival rate of the ...

OBJECTIVE In a previous cohort study (n=96), we found an association between mitochondrial (mt) DNA haplogroup JT and increased survival of severe septic patients, after controlling for age and serum lactic acid levels. The aim of this research was to increase the predictive accuracy and to control for more confounder variables in a larger cohort (n=196) of severe septic patients, to confirm wh...