introduction: langerhans cell histiocytosis (lch) is a rare disease characterized by clonal prolifera-tion of histiocytosis in different tissues. permanent consequences (pc) described among subjects with langerhans cell histiocytosis (lch).in this study we report the prevalence of permanent sequel among long – term survivors of lch in our center. methods: we had 30 cases of lch from 1989 – 2001...

background & aim: in the survival data with long-term survivors the event has not occurred for all the patients despite long-term follow-up, so the survival time for a certain percent is censored at the  end  of the  study.  mixture  cure  model  was  introduced  by boag,  1949  for  reaching  a  more efficient analysis of this set of data. because of some disadvantages of this model non-mixtur...

This paper focuses on rural living as a dimension of women's experiences of living through breast cancer. The findings presented emanate from a feminist narrative research project that examined the experiences of rural women from south-west Queensland who were long-term survivors of breast cancer. This project aimed to listen, report and interpret rural women's stories of resilience in survivin...

Follow up for survivors of childhood cancer is considered essential in order to document any continuing impact on growth, fertility and other systems, as well as provide appropriate care and information to individuals themselves. Appropriate follow up needs to take into account the survivors' own views about reasons for attendance and perceived satisfaction with the services provided. Informati...

BACKGROUND Little data are available on the long-term survival of patients treated with sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). SUMMARY During a consensus workshop at the 50th annual meeting of the Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan held in Kyoto (June 5-6, 2014), experts met to discuss the characteristics of long-term (>3 years) survivors of advanced HCC following sorafenib tre...

Long-term care demographic and industry trends challenge provision of effective care and infection prevention. A systematic review was conducted to identify and evaluate cost estimates reported in the scientific literature of structure and processes intended to prevent infection among residents and staff of long-term care facilities (LTCFs). The small volume of publications regarding cost of in...

Recent research indicates that approximately 60% of children diagnosed with cancer in Britain are cured and as a result, about 1 in a 1000 of the general population will soon be survivors of childhood cancer. Unfortunately some elements of the therapies which are responsible for this remarkable success are associated with serious complications, sometimes decades after their administration. Ther...

We investigate Leifer and Milner RPO approach for deriving efficient (finitely branching) LTS’s and bisimilarities for π-calculus. To this aim, we work in a category of second-order term contexts and we apply a general pruning technique, which allows to simplify the set of transitions in the LTS obtained from the original RPO approach. The resulting LTS and bisimilarity provide an alternative p...