60-year-old woman was treated for a brain metastasis. the patient received intensity-modulated radiation therapy (sib-imrt) dose of 30 gy for the whole brain and 40 gy delivered simultaneously to individual brain metastases in 10 fractions. the present report investigated the influence of applied novel prepared treatment plan, among others the fractionation protocol on the electroencephalogram ...

submission deadlines: Non-students: Friday 21 July 2017 Students*: Friday 1 September 2017 The SCoR would welcome proffered papers and posters from students, assistant practitioners, clinical radiographers at all tiers, service managers, research radiographers, educationalists, and other members of the multiprofessional oncology team, within the topic areas of: · Innovative Radiotherapy · Accur...

Microarray classification can be useful to support clinical management decisions for individual patients in, for example, oncology. However, comparing classifiers and selecting the best for each microarray dataset can be a tedious and non-straightforward task. The M@CBETH (a MicroArray Classification BEnchmarking Tool on a Host server) web service offers the microarray community a simple tool f...

this survey was performed on 45 oncology nurses in three hospitals, and cancer institute in tehran. the purpose of this study was investigating the stressors during the care of cancer patients and its importance from the oncology nurses’ view. data gathering tool was a questionnaire with 42 questions, according to research specific goals and had two parts. first part included demographic charac...

a Department of General Surgery, University of Verona, Verona , Italy; b Department of Surgery, Philipps University, Marburg , Germany; c Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital, Uppsala , Sweden; d Department of Pathology, Technical University of Munich, Munich , Germany; e Faculdade de Medicina do Porto & IPATIMUP, Porto , Portugal; f Instituto Alexander Fleming, Buenos Aires , Argen...

1University College London, London, United Kingdom; 2Rambam Medical Center and Technicon, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; 3Clinical Trial Service Unit, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom; 5Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom; 6Nottingham University, Nottingham, United Kingdo...

BACKGROUND The objective was to determine whether variation in laboratory utilization exists and whether physicians were responsible for a portion of this variation. METHOD Variation in laboratory test ordering was collected on subspecialty services: the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and the Oncology Service. Ordinary least-squares regression was used to determine the effect of interns, ...

1Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 2Leukemia Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 3Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 4Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 5Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Progr...

patient satisfaction is one of the sensitive indicators in determining the effectiveness of service rendered in hospitals. the study focus on comparing the health care services of  two cardiology based corporate hospitals in hyderabad, andhra pradesh, india. the data for the study was collected through a questionnaire consisting of two sections. an attempt has been made to elicit the informatio...

Service d’Anatomie et Cytologie Pathologiques, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hôtel Dieu, Nantes, France; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Bȃtiment Genopode, Lausanne, Switzerland; Département de Pathologie, Hôpital Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Département de Pathologie, Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse, France; Unité Hémopathies Lymphoı̈des, Groupe Henri Mondor Albert-Chenevier, Assistance Publique –...