The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of treatment with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (APBSCT) combined with adoptive immunotherapy in B lymphocyte malignant lymphoma (ML). According to receiving adoptive Immunotherapy or not after APBSCT, the patients were divided into two groups: treatment group and control group. 110 case patients [78 cases with no...

Depth First Search (DFS) tree is a fundamental data structure used for solving various graph problems. For a given graph G = (V,E) on n vertices and m edges, a DFS tree can be built in O(m + n) time. In the last 20 years, a few algorithms have been designed for maintaining a DFS tree efficiently under insertion of edges. For undirected graphs, there are two prominent algorithms, namely, ADFS1 a...

BACKGROUND Because the recurrence rate of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is high, even after curative treatments such as hepatic resection and microwave ablation, chemopreventive agents that can effectively suppress HCC recurrence are required. Cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) was recently found to be overexpressed in HCC. Therefore, Cox-2 inhibitors may offer a chemopreventive therapy for HCC. This ra...

AIM To assess through a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature the prognostic implication of sentinel lymph node mapping in Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). MATERIALS AND METHODS PubMed and SCOPUS databases were searched by using "Merkel AND sentinel" as keywords. All studies with prognostic information regarding SLN mapping in cN0 MCC patients were included. Hazard ratio (HR) for ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the contribution of chemotherapy for patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) treated by intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and to identify the optimal combination treatment strategy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between 2006 and 2010, 276 patients with stage II-IVb NPC were treated by IMRT alone or IMRT plus chemotherapy. Cisplatin-based chemot...

Most simple reciprocal translocation homozygotes and heterozygotes are euploid, and normal in genotype. However, translocation heterozygotes form six types of numerically balanced meiotic products. The cross of a translocation heterozygote with a normal individual can yield normal progeny, translocation heterozygotes, or any of four segmentally aneuploid duplication-deficient types (dp-dfs). Us...

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDDs/DFs) were measured in sediments collected from Masan Bay, Korea. Almost all tetra- through octachlorinated PCDDs/DFs were identified, including the 17 2,3,7,8-substituted PCDDs/DFs. Total concentrations of PCDDs/DFs in sediments ranged from 102 to 6,493 pg/g dry weight. Concentrations of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (TeCDD)...

PURPOSE To analyze the results of locoregional and systemic therapy in the breast cancer patients with locoregional recurrence (LRR) after mastectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-one patients who received radiotherapy for isolated LRR after mastectomy between January 1999 and December 2009 were retrospectively reviewed. Among the 71 patients, 59 (83.1%) underwent wide excision and radiother...

BACKGROUND The prevention of overweight and obesity during infancy is a highly relevant public health topic given the significant impact of childhood obesity on acute and chronic diseases, general health, and well-being in later stages of life. Apart from the family setting, daycare facilities (DFs) represent a key setting for health promotion among children under the age of six years. "Jolinch...

In this paper, we introduce a novel calculation method of magnetic entropy change in an arbitrary ferromagnetic system based on the Landau model for Gibbs free energy and Arrott–Noakes equation, −ΔSM=11γ+1dA(T)dTM1γ+1−MS1γ+1+11β+1γ+1dB(T)dTM1β+1γ+1−MS1β+1γ+1−M−MSH1γH1−1γ. This theoretical study was applied to TbFeSi (TFS) DyFeSi (DFS) intermetallic compounds. First, critical exponents (β; γ) ar...