BACKGROUND The purpose of this investigation was to present 5-years of quality-of-life (QOL) results of a multicenter randomized phase III trial, assessing intra-arterial (IA) versus standard intravenous (IV) chemoradiation for inoperable stage IV head and neck cancer. METHODS Evaluation of 71 patients through European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Question...

Introduction: Each of the three Tharsis Montes volcanoes on Mars has unusual fan-shaped deposits located exclusively to the northwest of each shield. The fan-shaped deposits of the Tharsis Montes generally share three major facies: 1) Ridged facies, 2) Knobby facies, and 3) Smooth facies. Here we examine the Pavonis fan-shaped deposits using new Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey data. Any e...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to perform an objective and subjective evaluation of the efficacy of positioning stents in radiation-induced xerostomia in patients with tongue carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 30 patients with tongue carcinoma and undergoing conventional radiotherapy were randomly assigned to control (n = 15) and study (n = 15) groups, without and with a positioni...

Epidemiological studies have provided evidence that neuropsychiatric symptoms are induced by long term exposure to solvents; individual diagnosis with psychometric tests, however, is not always possible (for example, when the patient has linguistic difficulties). Therefore evoked potentials and cerebral blood flow were studied in 50 patients occupationally exposed to solvents who were referred ...

BACKGROUND To describe long-term changes in time of quality of life (QOL) and the relation with parotid salivary output in patients with head-and-neck cancer treated with radiotherapy. METHODS Forty-four patients completed the EORTC-QLQ-C30(+3) and the EORTC-QLQ-H&N35 questionnaires before treatment, 6 weeks, 6 months, 12 months, and at least 3.5 years after treatment. At the same time points...

Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring’s economic status in post reform rural China by concentrating on the father-son relationship. We focus on two indicators of family background: family class origin (jiating chengfen) and occupational experience. The results of a fami...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated long-term quality of life of patients successfully treated with either laser-assisted microsurgery alone or combined with adjuvant radiotherapy for laryngeal carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study included 53 patients who were treated by laser surgery and 16 patients who were treated by laser surgery combined with adjuvant radiotherapy. Quality of life was evaluated...

BACKGROUND Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) has been proposed for staging of N0 neck in oral/oropharyngeal carcinomas. It is claimed that SNB may be superior to selective neck dissection (SND) with respect to quality of life (QOL) and postoperative morbidity. METHODS Twenty-four patients after SNB and 25 patients after SND (levels I-III) were enrolled. QOL and psychosocial variables were assessed b...

Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health: Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which resulted in massive layoff of the SOEs’ workers and a high unemployment rate. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the parents’ job loss on t...

UNLABELLED IMRT has achieved an excellent survival and less radiation-induced sequelae with improvement of QoL within 2 years compared to conventional radiotherapy for NPC. Whether IMRT could sustained decrease incidence of late sequelae and improve QoL further for long-term survivors remained unknown. 176 patients from Aug. 2002 to Jun. 2009 were retrospectively analyzed. Radiation-related tox...