Cancer: Cell survival guide

The Dad's Survival Guide

Like a hirsute Lord Reith; his mission: to inform and educate, Ian Banks returns to a bookshop near you. From TV to VD; you name it, he's covered it. The prolific Dr Banks latest offering weighs in at 192 pages, and is presented in the disarming and humorous style that is his moniker. Settling into an armchair, your reviewer elected to approach the project from the perspective of someone with n...

A Pathologist’s Survival Guide

Consultant survival guide.

Taking up a new consultant post can be both exciting and daunting. Once the elation of completing years of training and successfully securing a valued position has subsided, the reality of the task ahead becomes apparent. A new consultant needs to develop a number of skills to develop as a clinical leader and understand the processes within the National Health Service (NHS) that enable service ...

Survival and Prognostic Factors in Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients in Turkey

Background: Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly aggressive tumor. Objective: To evaluate the survival and time to progression of patients with SCLC admitted to a chest disease center in Istanbul, Turkey. Methods: Based on the reports of a pulmonary oncology clinic, data regarding performance status (PS), clinical stage of disease, treatment, time to progression and survival of 67 patients...

Cell-mediated autophagy promotes cancer cell survival.

Immune effector cells integrate signals that define the nature and magnitude of the subsequent response. Experimental measures for immune cell-mediated lysis of tumors or virally infected targets rely on average responses of permeability or apoptotic changes within a population of targets. Here, we examined individual target cells following interaction with lymphoid effectors. We found that hum...