PURPOSE For the last few years wafers of Gliadel have been inserted into the operation cavity in patients with glioblastoma multiforme. This is followed by concurrent radio-chemotherapy with temozolomide (TMZ) according to the Stupp protocol. Only a few studies have investigated this kind of treatment regimen and the impact in terms of survival and toxicity of the combination of Gliadel with TM...

Purpose The panel updated the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) adjuvant therapy guideline for resected non-small-cell lung cancers. Methods ASCO convened an update panel and conducted a systematic review of the literature, investigating adjuvant therapy in resected non-small-cell lung cancers. Results The updated evidence base covered questions related to adjuvant systemic therapy a...

The 5-year overall survival of patients with pancreatic cancer is approximately 5%, with potentially resectable disease representing the curable minority. Although surgical resection remains the cornerstone of treatment, local and distant failure rates are high after complete resection, and debate continues as to the appropriate adjuvant therapy. Many oncologists advocate for adjuvant chemother...

objective: the effects of natural adjuvants were examined on total and differential wbc counts in lung lavage of sensitized guinea pigs. materials and methods: in three sensitized groups of guinea pigs including: untreated sensitized animals (s), sensitized animals treated with adjuvant g2 (s+g2) and g2f (s+g2f) as well as non-sensitized group (c) (n=6 for each group), total and differential wb...

objective: to report a case of long-term disease free and successful pregnancy after fertility sparing staging surgery with adjuvant chemotherapy in a 46,xy gonadal dysgenetic with malignant germ cell tumor. materials and methods: a case report from a university hospital about a 19-year-old female with 46,xy karyotype ( swyer syndrome). the patient underwent bilateral gonadectomy and staging wi...

In gastric adenocarcinoma, high rates of loco-regional recurrences have been reported even after complete resection, and various studies have been tried to find the role of postoperative adjuvant therapy. Among them, Intergroup 0116 trial was a landmark trial, and demonstrated the definite survival benefit in adjuvant chemoradiotherapy, compared with surgery alone. However, the INT 0116 trial h...

The dehydration-rehydration vesicle (DRV) method was used to encapsulate hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in phosphatidylcholine (PC) and distearoyl phosphatidylcholine (DSPC) liposomes giving entrapment values of 31.7% and 33.1% respectively. A comparison of antibody levels, as determined by ELISA, in the primary and secondary immune responses in mice immunized twice with 1 microgram HBsAg ...

Unmethylated CpG dinucleotide motifs present in bacterial genomes or synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) serve as strong immunostimulatory agents in mice, monkeys and humans. We determined the adjuvant effect of murine CpG ODN 1826 on the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae-expressed 19-kDa C-terminal region of merozoite surface protein 1 (yMSP1(19)) of the...

Biomarkers may be useful when deciding which nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients may benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy following complete resection and which chemotherapeutic agents may be used preferably in individual patients in order to maximise survival. A literature search covering the period from 2003 to May, 2014 was conducted using PubMed and the following search terms: "non-sma...

Primary undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma (UES) of the liver is a highly malignant mesenchymal origin tumor and has a peak incidence between the ages of 6 and 10 years. We hereby report a case of primary UES of the liver in a 7-year-old male patient who initially was misdiagnosed and treated as hydatid cyst of the liver. The tumor was occupying almost the entire right lobe of the liver and had...