PURPOSE To present a preliminary report on the feasibility, efficacy, and toxicity of irradiation (RT) and hyperthermia (HT) in patients with locally advanced, hormone-refractory prostate cancer (LAHRPC) who may or may not have received prior RT. METHODS AND MATERIALS Between 1997 and 2002, 13 consecutive patients with LAHRPC or RT-recurrent prostate cancer were treated with RT and HT on a Ph...

The theory of respectively interpretation proposed in Yatabe and Tam (2021) "In defense an HPSG-based non-constituent coordination" (Linguistics Philosophy 44, pp. 1-77) entails that Binding Conditions A B need to be formulated as constraints on the form semantic representations. It is possible formulate two binding conditions such if anaphoric relations are encoded representations a way analog...

The generation of a self-resolved radiation-induced oral mucositis (RIOM) mouse model using the highest possibly tolerable single ionizing radiation (RT) dose was needed in order to study RIOM management solutions. We used 10-week-old male BALB/c mice with average weight of 23 g for model production. Mice were treated with an orthovoltage X-ray irradiator to induce the RIOM ulceration at the in...

PURPOSE To report the treatment outcomes of patients with metastatic bone disease with complete or impending pathologic fractures, who were treated with postoperative radiotherapy (RT), bisphosphonates or both after orthopedic stabilization. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated the results of RT, bisphosphonates or both after orthopedic stabilization for complete or impending pat...

The paper studies the influence of diamond grinding, lapping, and polishing on surface layer defectiveness Al2O3/TiC SiAlON ceramic samples. index ID, which is product defect density defective layer’s thickness (Rt), a method for its evaluation are proposed to quantify surfaces. Lapping reduces Rt parameter by 2.6–2.7 times when defects was decreased 2 times. After polishing, decreases 0.42 μm ...

AIM To investigate the impact of definitive radiation therapy (RT) in the management of early glottic cancer on clinical RT-induced dysphagia (RID) and carotid vasculopathy (RICV). PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a single-institution retrospective study. From January 1997 to 2010, 253 patients, with early glottic cancer, underwent RT with (60)Co or LINAC-6 MV photons. RT fields with wedge pair a...

PURPOSE The optimal method to assess human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status remains highly controversial. Before reporting patient HER2 results, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)/College of American Pathologists (CAP) guidelines mandate that laboratories demonstrate ≥ 95% concordance to another approved laboratory or methodology. Here, we compare central laboratory HE...

Objectives: The stability of two kinds of solution of penicillin G potassium [PEN-K, 10K U/mL in 5% dextrose water, D5W and 50K U/mL in 0.9% sodium chloride in water, NS) into the intravenous infusion device, Accufuser ® , storage were evaluated at controlled temperature (CT, 4±2°C and RT, 25±2°C) during 6 weeks. Methods: Studies were performed using both NS (PEN-K 50K U/mL) and D5W (PEN-K 10K ...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to evaluate clinical outcomes following definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for patients with N3-positive stage IIIB (N3-IIIB) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with a focus on radiation therapy (RT) techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS From May 2010 to November 2012, 77 patients with N3-IIIB NSCLC received definitive CCRT (median, 66 Gy). RT techniq...