The serum concentrations of squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC-Ag) obtained from 124 surgically treated primary non-small cell lung cancer patients, including 75 adenocarcinomas (AD) and 49 squamous cell carcinomas (SQ), were studied. The changes in the SCC-Ag concentration, which were obtained before and one month after surgery, were analyzed. The 5-year survival rate of the patients with AD...

Importance The guidelines for head and neck cancer recommend consideration of adjuvant postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) for patients with pT1N1 or pT2N1 disease in the absence of other adverse features. This recommendation was recently changed for oropharyngeal (OP) squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Objective To examine the use and outcomes of PORT for N1 OP SCC and oral cavity (OC) SCC. Desi...

Background:Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common malignancy of the oral cavity, which is highly invasive. Verrucous carcinoma (VC) is the low-grade form of SCC. Epithelial dysplasia (ED) also has a malignant potential. This immunohistochemical (IHC) study aimed to assess angiogenesis and the presence of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in SCC, VC and ED to determi...

The purpose of this research is to determine the resistance to the stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of three unidirectional (pultruded) E-glass/polymer composites based on modified polyester, epoxy and vinyl ester resins. The composites have been subjected to a nitric acid solution of pH 1.2 in a newly designed four-point bend fixture. The stress corrosion process was initiated on the as supplie...

AIM In this study, factors affecting survival, local failure, distant brain failure, whole brain failure and whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) free survival according to histological subtypes were investigated in patients with brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). MATERIAL AND METHODS Patients with positive pathology reports for adenocarcinoma (ACA) and squamous cell ca...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is little research on training medical students in smoking cessation counseling (SCC). This study aimed to determine if a personal digital assistant (PDA)-based SCC tool can improve medical student SCC. METHODS We conducted a randomized, controlled trial with third-year medical students. SCC behaviors, comfort, and knowledge were assessed using a validated surv...

Taekyong Lee and G ultekin  Ozsoyo glu Department of Computer Engineering and Science Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106 ftlee, [email protected] Abstract: Multimedia presentations are stored into and queried from multimedia databases. In an earlier work, we have designed a graphical query language, called GVISUAL, that allows users to query multimedia presentations based o...

Milk quality parameters were recorded for United States dairy farms utilizing automatic milking (AM) from August 2000 to June 2003. Additional farms were admitted to the study as they began operation, so that the full data set includes 12 AM farms. Somatic cell count (SCC) and total bacterial count (TBC) data was analyzed and compared to corresponding data from a cohort of conventional farms in...

Safingol, L- threo-dihydrosphingosine, induces cell death in human oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cells through an endonuclease G (endoG) -mediated pathway. We herein determined whether safingol induced apoptosis and autophagy in oral SCC cells. Safingol induced apoptotic cell death in oral SCC cells in a dose-dependent manner. In safingol-treated cells, microtubule-associated protein 1 lig...