Cancer is a common disease; it affects about one in three people, and eventually 27% of men and 24% of women will die of it.' Many different professionals, in hospital and in the community, may be involved in the care of a person with advanced cancer. They include general practitioners; hospital staff such as general physicians, oncologists, surgeons, specialists in palliative medicine and medi...

Cancer of the pancreas is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Of the 28,000 patients diagnosed each year, more than 95% will die of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, the focus of therapy for most patients is palliative care. In fact, the most active single-agent therapy for advanced disease—gemcitabine (Gemzar)—was first compared to fluorouracil (5-FU) with relief of dise...

Cancer of the pancreas is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Of the 28,000 patients diagnosed each year, more than 95% will die of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, the focus of therapy for most patients is palliative care. In fact, the most active single-agent therapy for advanced disease—gemcitabine (Gemzar)—was first compared to fluorouracil (5-FU) with relief of dise...

for investigation quantitative and qualitative properties of different lines and cultivars of rapeseed, 19 selected lines from advanced inbreeding progenies, and zarfam variety (as check), totally 20 lines and varieties, were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications at the experimental field of seed and plant improvement institute in karaj, during 2005-6. morpholo...

Advanced reporting obligations and stricter legal regulations increase the requirements on modern environmental information systems. Specialized applications have to support new ways of analysis and representation of the collected data in order to gain new insights. The article presents the thematic application for groundwater management in Baden-Württemberg, which is tailored to the needs of t...

A central feature of the online social networking system, Facebook, is the connection to and links among friends. The sum of the number of one’s friends is a feature displayed on users’ profiles as a vestige of the friend connections a user has accrued. In contrast to offline social networks, individuals in online network systems frequently accrue friends numbering several hundred. The uncertai...

Material tracking is becoming increasingly important in the metal industry: It is necessary that a metal coil passes through a fixed program during its manufacturing process only then the quality of the product is guaranteed. The current practice is to assign each metal coil a number with which it is labeled. This method proves to be prone to errors: During the day-long storage of the metal coi...

Breast Cancer is the most prevalent cancer in the world with 4.4 million survivors up to 5 years following the diagnosis.1 In the US alone approximately forty thousand women die annually of metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Despite many effective systemic treatment options approximately 50% of women with MBC succumb to the disease within 24 months of the diagnosis.2 Ixabepilone is a novel, first ...

das thema „orient“ besch?ftigte schon lange vor der institutionalisierung der orientforschung und entstehung von orientalistikschulen die deutschsprachige kulturszene und wurde vor allem seit der zweiten h?lfte des 18. jahrhunderts mit einem ungeheuren illusorischen potenzial intensiver denn je in literarischen werken und ubersetzungen sowie in geistesgeschichtlichen debatten thematisiert. die ...