BACKGROUND This study prospectively examines weight gain in breast cancer survivors compared with cancer-free women from a familial risk cohort. METHODS Absolute and percent weight change over 4 years was compared among 303 breast cancer survivors and 307 cancer-free women matched on age and menopausal status, from the same familial risk cohort. Linear and logistic regression was used to esti...

Surgery has been the mainstay of treatment of breast cancer for almost a whole century since Halsted popularised his radical mastectomy in 1894. He believed that breast cancer metastasised by local spread, and therefore en bloc resection of the affected breast with the overlying skin, pectoral muscles and the entire axillary contents was necessary. In those days, breast cancer often presented a...

At present, occurred in the field of artificial muscles a big progress. Application of artificial muscles emerges with the development of new technologies. Artificial muscles have potential to copy the natural function of muscles and their using is still progressing. This type of drive is possible to use in different areas, where using of other types of drives would be difficult or unrealistic....

The association between weight, BMI and breast cancer was analyzed on 94,805 women of the E3N cohort according to their menopausal status. Seven hundred eighty-six incident invasive premenopausal breast cancers and 1,522 incident invasive postmenopausal breast cancers occurred during a mean follow-up of 9.7 years. Weight and BMI were updated every 24 months and considered as time-dependent vari...

SIR We read with interest the study by Rutishauser and Carlini which showed that, after adjusting for the effects of confounding factors, body mass index (BMI) had a significant independent effect on the rate of cessation of breast feeding. The authors further suggest that concern regarding the lack of weight loss while breast feeding may be the basis for the association found between BMI and t...

BACKGROUND Birth weight has been identified as a birth-related factor associated with the risk of breast cancer. However, the evidence is inconsistent. METHODS To investigate the association between birth weight and breast cancer, we conducted a meta-analysis of published studies between 1996 and 2008. Eighteen studies encompassing 16,424 breast cancer cases were included in the meta-analysis...

The article presents the results of research on effect different levels and ratios arginine lysine in compound feed broiler chickens their meat productivity. We conducted by group method, 600 heads Cobb-500 crossbred chickens, divided into six groups according to principle analogs. During experiment, consumed that differed only content ratio between essential amino acids: lysine. established ef...

The effects of dietary exogenous hydrophilic emulsifiers on the growth, nutrient digestibility, and carcass characteristics broilers were evaluated. A total 200 one-day-old (Ross 308) allotted to one four treatment groups in a randomized complete block design five replicates with 10 birds per pen during 5-week growth experimental period. Birds fed corn-soybean meal-based diet or without additio...

Introduction: Skeletal muscle is a flexible and ever changing tissue and the role of costameric proteins in its response to different stimuli is not well defined. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of progressive resistance exercise on β1 integrin and vinculin proteins in fast and slow twitch skeletal muscles of male rats. Methods: Twelve male Wistar rats (weight: 298±5.2 gr...