PURPOSE Men with apparently localized prostate cancer often relapse years after radical prostatectomy. We sought to determine if epithelial-like cells identified from bone marrow in patients after radical prostatectomy, commonly called disseminated tumor cells (DTC), were associated with biochemical recurrence. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We obtained bone marrow aspirates from 569 men prior to radica...

BACKGROUND Patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) have a favorable prognosis after treatment with thyroidectomy, radioiodine, and TSH suppression. However, treatment is associated with long-term cardiovascular toxicity. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether there is an increased risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) in DTC patients and whether AF occurrence is related to DTC tr...

( ) ABSTRACT: The industrial and sanitary use of dithiocarbamates DTCs is on the rise, and the synthesis of new derivatives has increased the field of their application. Both positive and negative pharmacological and toxicological effects have been documented for DTCs. The development and application of new DTCs must be accompanied by the study of their toxicity, beginning with the performance ...

INTRODUCTION Recently, we demonstrated that digestive tract cancer (DTC) is associated with reduced fibrin clot permeability and impaired fibrinolysis. AIM We investigated determinants of fibrinolysis in DTC patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS In 44 consecutive patients with DTC and 47 controls matched for age, sex, and cardiovascular risk, we evaluated fibrinolysis proteins, platelet activation...

BACKGROUND Gene expression profiles were determined to demonstrate heterogeneity of viable disseminated tumor cells (DTC) in the blood of breast cancer patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients (n = 48) suffered from metastatic disease (M1) and were treated with chemotherapy and/or Herceptin, respectively. Blood samples were analyzed by a DTC detection assay consisting of immunomagnetic tum...

BACKGROUND Despite the many studies examining thyroid cancers, the effect of thyroid autoantibodies on differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between serologic thyroid autoantibodies (ATAs) and DTC, we retrospectively evaluated data of thyroid nodules obtained from patients who underwent thyroid surgery. METHODS Data of thyroid nodul...

The aim of this paper is reduction of torque and flux ripples in transient and steady state response of Direct Torque Control (DTC) for Induction Motor drive using intelligent technique. This proposed control to improve the torque, speed and flux response will be achieved with the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) DTC than the Conventional DTC (CDTC). In this paper DTC system using ANN is success...

Eighty clinical specimens of BACTEC 9240 blood culture vials, culture positive for staphylococci (38 Staphylococcus aureus and 42 coagulase negative staphylococci), were tested directly for the presence of clumping factor/protein A and free coagulase. Seven commercial slide agglutination kits were compared with a direct-tube coagulase (DTC) method. All tests were performed on blood culture pell...

Distributed TCP Caching (DTC) substantially improves TCP performance in wireless sensor networks. We study DTC performance gains with two link layer error control mechanisms, namely link layer retransmissions and forward error control. Our results suggest that applying forward error correction to TCP acknowledgements is the best choice for our ongoing real implementation of DTC.