QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY/PRINCIPLES A retrospective assessment of long-term results on a single centre, single author experience in treating prostate cancer with high dose curative radiotherapy (RT) with or without androgen deprivation (AD). METHODS Between 1991 and 2004, 408 patients with clinically localised prostate cancer were treated with RT (+/-AD) at the University Hospital of Geneva. RT ...

BACKGROUND Palliative radiotherapy (PRT) can significantly improve quality of life for patients dying of cancer with bone metastases. However, an aggressive cancer treatment near end of life is an indicator of poor-quality care. But the optimal rate of overall palliative RT use near the end of life is still unknown. We sought to determine the patterns of palliative radiation therapy (RT) utiliz...

Objective: The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of chemotherapy as postoperative adjuvant therapy for stage IB-IIB cervical cancer with intermediate-risk factors. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 119 cervical cancer patients with intermediate-risk factors treated with radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy from December 1997 to September 2010. The i...

To assess the performance of second reading chest compute tomography (CT) examinations by expert radiologists in patients with discordance between reverse transcription real-time fluorescence polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for COVID-19 viral pneumonia and CT report. Three hundred seventy-eight were included this retrospective study (121 women 257 men; 71 years median age, a range 29–93...

Background and Objective: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is still an ongoing challenge in health system worldwide. Molecular detection methods including reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) can help cutting off the transmission chain of the virus. In this study, prompt setting up of the RT-LAMP assays were investigated using ge...

PURPOSE Oral malignancy is often treated with a combination of surgery and radiation therapy (RT). The aim of this systematic review was to examine the effects of pre- and postimplantation RT on dental implant failure. MATERIALS AND METHODS The literature published from 1990 through 2006 was reviewed for studies assessing pre- and postimplantation RT. Potential studies were identified by sear...

OBJECTIVE Thirty percent of patients with localized prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy experience biochemical recurrence with rising serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA). More than 50% of these develop distant metastases. METHODS Presence of PSA mRNA in pathologically normal pelvic lymph nodes from 154 patients undergoing radical prostatectomy was investigated with non-quantita...

Pregnant women (n = 859) in rural Cameroonian prenatal clinics were screened by two rapid human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody tests (rapid tests [RT]) (Determine and Hema-Strip) using either whole blood or plasma. One additional RT (Capillus, HIV-CHEK, or Sero-Card) was used to resolve discordant results. RT results were compared with HIV-1 enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and Western blot (WB)...

Resistance training (RT) offers benefits to both men and women. However, the studies about the differences between men and women in response to an RT program are not conclusive and few data are available about upper body strength response. The aim of this study was to compare elbow flexor strength gains in men and women after 10 weeks of RT. Forty-four college-aged men (22.63 ± 2.34 years) and ...