Background & Aims : Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma (HNPCC) is caused by
a mutated mismatch repair (MMR) gene. The aim of our study was to determine the …

Background Patients with prostate cancer may present with metastatic or recurrent disease
despite initial curative treatment. The propensity of metastatic prostate cancer to spread to the …

PURPOSE: We sought to determine whether the size of a patent foramen ovale affected the
risk of embolic cerebrovascular events of unknown origin. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We …

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and analytical accuracy of home blood glucose meters.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Six blood glucose meters—Reflolux S (Boehringer …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of multiphasic multidetector-row CT (MDCT)
in the detection and staging of transitional cell carcinomas (TCC) of the upper urinary tract…

Purpose: As chemotherapy has not been exten-sively studied in patients with lymphoma of
the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT), we initiated a prospective study to evaluate …

Purpose To evaluate the value of adjuvant postoperative external-beam radiation (EBR) in
patients with radically resected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) pT1–3 pN0–2 compared …

Results. The NB UV-B phototherapy significantly decreased the severity of atopic skin lesions
and reduced the Leicester score4 by a median of 50% and Costa score5 by a median of 40…

Background Hypoxia-induced genes are potential targets in cancer therapy. Responses to
hypoxia have been extensively studied in vitro, however, they may differ in vivo due to the …

Inhibition of glycolysis has been considered as a therapeutic approach in aggressive cancers
including lung cancer. Abbreviated gluconeogenesis, mediated by phosphoenolpyruvate …