e15001 Background: Several studies in oncology literature have demonstrated the prognostic value of baseline quality of life (QoL). However, there is little to no information on the prognostic effects of changes in QoL during treatment. We investigated whether changes in QoL could predict survival in prostate cancer. METHODS We evaluated 250 prostate cancer patients treated at our institution...

BACKGROUND Exercise may reduce anxiety and depression associated to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. AIM To assess the effects of a physical training program during chemotherapy among women with breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty two women aged 49 +/- 7 years with breast cancer voluntarily agreed to take part in the study, after surgical treatment. Functional capacity (Karnofs...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Taiwan Chinese Version of the EORTC QLQ-PR25 health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaire for patients with prostate cancer. METHODS 135 prostate cancer patients were recruited in the urology outpatient clinic of a university teaching hospital. Each patient completed the EORTC QLQ-PR25 at every clinic visit between 2004 and 2008...

A series of C30 branched isoprenoid hydrocarbons with a cyclobotryococcane skeleton were identified in the Florida Coastal Everglades Ecosystem. Nine such C30 alkenes were detected and identified as five-membered ring monocyclic hydrocarbons with an identical parent structure of 7,11-cyclobotryococcane based on their mass spectra and hydrogenation behavior. Previous reports have suggested Botry...

In the title compound, [(Ph(3)P)(2)N](+)·[Cl-H-Cl](-) or C(36)H(30)NP(2) (+)·Cl(2)H(-), the H atom of the [Cl-H-Cl](-) anion and the N atom of the [(Ph(3)P)(2)N](+) cation are located on a twofold axis, yielding overall symmetry 2 for both the cation and the anion. The central P-N-P angle [144.12 (13)°] of the cation is in the expected range and indicates only weak cation-anion inter-actions. T...

The packing of the genomic DNA in the living cell is essential for its biological function. While individual aspects of the genome architecture, such as DNA and nucleosome structure or the arrangement of chromosome territories are well studied, much information is missing for a unified description of cellular DNA at all its structural levels. Computer modeling can contribute to such a descripti...

Mitotic chromosomes are the iconic structures into which the genome is packaged to ensure its accurate segregation during mitosis. Although they have appeared on countless journal cover illustrations, there remains no consensus on how the chromatin fiber is packaged during mitosis. In fact, work in recent years has both added to existing controversies and sparked new ones. By contrast, there ha...

Three-neighbourhood Cellular Automata (CA) are widely studied and accepted as suitable cryptographic primitive. Rule 30, a 3-neighbourhood CA rule, was proposed as an ideal candidate for cryptographic primitive by Wolfram. However, rule 30 was shown to be weak against Meier-Staffelbach attack [7]. The cryptographic properties like diffusion and randomness increase with increase in neighbourhood...