Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most frequent childhood cancer. During the last 50 years its prognosis has improved from zero probability of survival in the 1950s to more than 80% chance to be cured at the beginning of the 21st century. ALL is a highly chemosensitive disease and its successful treatment is a good indicator of the level of medical care that children with cancer get in...

OBJECTIVE To determine the survival rate of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated in Hospital São Lucas - Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio Grande do Sul during the past 10 years. To evaluate well known prognostic factors and to compare results of BFM 90 and 95 trials. METHODS Mixed cohort study of 0 to 15-years-old children treated with BFM 90 and 95 trials during the past ...

purpose obesity is a common nutritional problem in both developed and developing countries. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of overweightness and obesity using both bioelectrical impedance analysis (bia) and body mass index (bmi). methods in this cross-sectional study, 288 healthy college students were selected. socio-economic status questionnaires were completed and subje...

Introduction. Primary mediastinal lymphoma (PML) is an aggressive lymphoid tumor treatment success of which determined by induction therapy. To date, none the standard chemotherapy regimens (CT) have demonstrated advantage in efficacy. Intensive therapy programs are associated with high toxicity. Aim — to evaluate efficacy and toxicity two pilot prospective protocols PML-16 PML-19 as well possibi...

PURPOSE The aim was to assess monomer conversion, dimensional stability, flexural strength / modulus, surface apatite precipitation and wear of mono / tri calcium phosphate (CaP) and polylysine (PLS)-containing dental composites. These were formulated using a new, high molecular weight, fluid monomer phase that requires no polymerisation activator. MATERIALS AND METHODS Urethane and Polypropy...

We present a method to efficiently compute Wasserstein gradient flows. Our approach is based on generalization of the back-and-forth (BFM) introduced in Jacobs and Léger [ Numer. Math. 146 (2020) 513–544.]. solve optimal transport problems. evolve flow by solving dual problem JKO scheme. In general, much better behaved than primal problem. This allows us run large scale flows simulations for cl...

Among 4,760 acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients enrolled from 1986 to 1995 in two subsequent trials of the BFM and AIEOP study group, 61 patients were found to have Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) ALL. These patients were analyzed for presenting features and treatment outcome to identify specific prognostic factors. Treatment stratification was based on initial cell mass and earl...

In this article we study the general structure and special properties of the Schwinger-Dyson equation for the gluon propagator constructed with the pinch technique, together with the question of how to obtain infrared finite solutions, associated with the generation of an effective gluon mass. Exploiting the known all-order correspondence between the pinch technique and the background field met...