Browsing by Keywords "Aged, 80 and over"

Adjuvant autologous melanoma vaccine for macroscopic stage III disease: survival, biomarkers, and improved response to CTLA-4 blockade

Lotem, M.; Merims, S.; Frank, S.; Hamburger, T.; Nissan, A.; Kadouri, L.; Cohen, J.; Straussman, R.; Eisenberg, G.; Frankenburg, S.; Carmon, E.; Alaiyan, B.; Shneibaum, S.; Ayyildiz, Z. O.; Isbilen, M.; Senses, K. M.; Ron, I.; Steinberg, H.; Smith, Y.; Shiloni, E.; Gure, A. O.; Peretz, T. (Hindawi Limited, 2016)

Background. There is not yet an agreed adjuvant treatment for melanoma patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer stages III B and C. We report administration of an autologous melanoma vaccine to prevent disease ...

BRAPH: A graph theory software for the analysis of brain connectivity

Mijalkov, M.; Kakaei, E.; Pereira, J. B.; Westman, E.; Volpe, G. (Public Library of Science, 2017)

The brain is a large-scale complex network whose workings rely on the interaction between its various regions. In the past few years, the organization of the human brain network has been studied extensively using concepts ...

Data mining experiments on the Angiotensin II-Antagonist in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (ANTIPAF-AFNET 2) trial: ‘exposing the invisible’

Okutucu, S.; Katircioglu-Öztürk, D.; Oto, E.; Güvenir, H. A.; Karaagaoglu, E.; Oto, A.; Meinertz, T.; Goette, A. (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Aims: The aims of this study include (i) pursuing data-mining experiments on the Angiotensin II-Antagonist in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (ANTIPAF-AFNET 2) trial dataset containing atrial fibrillation (AF) burden scores ...

Diagnosis of gastric carcinoma by classification on feature projections

Güvenir, H. A.; Emeksiz, N.; İkizler, N.; Örmeci, N. (Elsevier, 2004)

A new classification algorithm, called benefit maximizing classifier on feature projections (BCFP), is developed and applied to the problem of diagnosis of gastric carcinoma. The domain contains records of patients with ...

DNA repair gene polymorphisms and bladder cancer susceptibility in a Turkish population

Karahalil, B.; Kocabas, N. A.; Özçelik, T. (International Institute of Anticancer Research, 2006)

Background: Occupational exposure and life style preferences, such as smoking are the main known environmental susceptibility factors for bladder cancer. A growing list of chemicals has been shown to induce oxidative DNA ...

Early outcomes after transoral CO2 laser resection of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: One centre's experience

Leong, S. C.; Kathan, C.; Mortimore, S. (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Objectives: To review early oncological outcomes following transoral CO2 laser resection of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Design: Retrospective review of hospital electronic database. Setting: Large ...

Expression of CK-19 and CEA mRNA in peripheral blood of gastric cancer patients

Kutun, S.; Celik, A.; Cem Kockar, M.; Erkorkmaz, U.; Eroǧlu, A.; Cetin, A.; Erkosar, B.; Yakicier, C. (2010)

Aim: To investigate the clinical and pathological relevance of detection of circulating tumor cells (CTC) in the peripheral blood of gastric carcinoma patients before operation. Patients and Methods: Fifty patients with ...

Ischemic stroke phenotype in patients with nonsustained atrial fibrillation

Arsava, E. M.; Bas, D. F.; Atalar, Ergin; Has, A. C.; Oguz, K. K.; Topcuoglu, M. A. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015)

Background and Purpose: The widespread use of ambulatory cardiac monitoring has not only increased the detection of high-risk arrhythmias like persistent and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), but also made it possible ...

Lack of association between RNASEL Arg462Gln variant and the risk of breast cancer

Sevinç, A.; Yannoukakos, D.; Konstantopoulou, I.; Manguoglu, E.; Lüleci, G.; Çolak, T.; Akyerli, C.; Çolakoglu, G.; Tez, M.; Sayek, I.; Gerassimos, V.; Nasioulas, G.; Papadopoulou, E.; Florentin, L.; Kontogianni, E.; Bozkurt, B.; Kocabas, N. A.; Karakaya, A. E.; Yulug, I. G.; Özçelik, T. (International Institute of Anticancer Research, 2004)

Background: The RNASEL G1385A variant was recently found to be implicated in the development of prostate cancer. Considering the function of RNase L and the pleiotropic effects of mutations associated with cancer, we sought ...