Radiation therapy has been shown to be adaptable for various stages of hepatocellular carcinoma

Has oseltamivir been shown to be effective for treatment of H5N1 influenza?

Influenza A(H5N1) virus is one of many avian influenza viruses and was identified as the cause of 18 hospitalizations and 6 deaths in Hong Kong in 1997; the slaughter of 1.5 million poultry is credited with aborting the outbreak [1–3]. The concern that this event provoked for an occurrence of an H5N1 pandemic was reinforced when H5N1 infections were detected in 2003 in children in Vietnam; expo...

Radiation Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

The lymphocyte transformation test for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis has currently not been shown to be clinically useful.

I would like to comment on the letter from Dessau et al.: “Lymphocyte transformation test for diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis is currently not documented to be clinically useful” [1]. I wish to thank Dessau and colleagues for their interest in our study and am very pleased that they confirm that the lymphocyte transformation test (LTT) shows a high specificity in seronegative cases [1]. Especiall...

Evaluation of Photoelectron Therapy Effect on Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Mofid B1, Navabpoor M2, Alizadeh Azimi M3 1. Assistant professor, Department of Radiotherapy, Faculty of Para-Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences 2. Instructor, Department of Technology of radiology, Faculty of Para-Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences Abstract Background: Photoelectron therapy method has been usad successfully, on the body phantom...

indefinite antiviral therapy may be required after surgical resection for hepatocellular carcinoma complicating chronic hepatitis b

this report describes a 66-year-old male who had a long history of hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection. he was found hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) 5 months after lamivudine resistance mutation and then received a successful hepatectomy. three years later, hepatitis b envelope antigen seroconversion was achieved and nucleoside analogs were discontinued. after the withdrawn of antiviral treatment,...