Aim: To examine the survival benefit of liver and lung resection for colorectal metastasis and the potential prognostic factors that affect patient survival. Methods: All patients who had resection of lung or liver metastasis for colorectal metastasis in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong from 1995 to 2004 were retrospectively reviewed. The overall and disease‐free survival was analysed, in particularly between liver and lung metastasis. All factors that may have affected the survival were entered into Cox's proportional hazards regression model to identify significant variables associated with survival. Results: At 5 years, the overall survival of patients who had resection of lung and liver metastasis was 44% and 38%, respectively; the disease‐free survival was 26% and 24%, respectively. Overall and disease‐free survival of patients with resection of lung metastasis was comparable to those with resection of liver metastasis. The differentiations of primary tumour and time to metastasis were shown to be significant prognostic factors influencing overall survival. Those patients with systemic chemotherapy after resection of colorectal metastasis demonstrated a significantly higher probability of overall survival. Conclusion: Resection of lung and liver metastases from colorectal origin was safe and both procedures improved survival. The use of chemotherapy after resection of metastasis significantly improved the overall survival. 相似文献
1. The pharmacokinetics of Dalal-peptide T-NH2 (peptide T) was determined during phase I clinical trials in patients with acquired immunodeficiecy disease (AIDS) and AIDS related complex (ARC). Drug levels were determined by specific RIA, and in some cases with HPLC analysis, after intraveneous (i.v.) or intranasal (i.n.), via metered sprayer, administration.
2. The plasma kinetics appeared to be bi-phasic with a first compartment half-life of 30 to 60 minutes and a second plasma clearence rate of 4 to 6 hours, observed for both routes of administration. Peptide T, in one individual was confirmed to be present at 6 hrs in plasma, determined after HPLC isolation followed by specific RIA.
3. Bioavailabilty, determined for a 2 mg test dose in six individuals was 9.3 ± 6.9 nmol/L. Peak plasma levels of 41 ± 30 nmol/L after 10 mg i.n., 2.8 ± 5.9 nmol/L after 2mg i.n., and 0.13 ± 0.07 nmol/L after 0.4 mg i.n. were observed. In two individuals tested, peptide T was detected in CSF at levels 20% of the corresponding plasma level 90 and 145 minutes post i.v. administration. Peptide T was not detected in urine. I.N. administration was well tolerated for times up to 21 months. 相似文献
There is considerable variation in care provided to patients with diabetes related to metabolic control, preventive services, and degree of patient-centered support. This study evaluates the relation of self-determination theory (SDT) constructs of clinician autonomy support, and patient competence to glycemic control, depressive symptoms, and patient satisfaction from baseline surveys of 634 patients of 31 Colorado primary care physicians participating in a program to improve diabetes care. Spearman correlations of autonomy support from one's clinician with patient competence, HbA1c, depressive symptoms and satisfaction were significant (R = -0.11 to 0.55, P < 0.005). Structural equation modeling demonstrated that autonomy support was significantly related to perceived competence, depressive symptoms, patient satisfaction, and indirectly to glycemic control. Perceived competence was significantly related to depressive symptoms, patient satisfaction and glycemic control. Further, the motivation constructs from SDT accounted for 5% of the variance in glycemic control, 8% of the variance in depression, and 42% of the variance in patient satisfaction. Quality improvement efforts need to pay greater attention to patient competence, satisfaction, and depression, in addition to glycemic control. Clinician autonomy support was found to be reliably measured and moderately correlated with psychosocial and biologic outcomes related to diabetes self-management. These results suggest training clinicians to increase their support of patient autonomy may be one important avenue to improve diabetes outcomes. 相似文献
This study used a novel delayed nonmatching-to-position task to compare visuospatial learning and memory in young and aged beagle dogs (Canis familiaris). The task used 3, rather than 2, spatial locations, which markedly increased difficulty. There were striking age differences in acquisition. Most of the aged canines did not learn the task, and those that did showed impaired learning when compared with the young canines. The aged canines also showed reduced maximal working memory capacity compared with the young canines. Analysis of the response patterns of individual canines indicated that the deficits were related to the use of ineffective strategies and inflexibility in strategy modification. 相似文献
Pigmented nodular cortical hyperplasia, a rare cause of Cushing’s syndrome, is characterized by resistance to inhibition with
dexamethasone and normal sized adrenal glands with multiple, small pigmented nodules. The disorder may be a component of a
syndrome inherited as an autosomal dominant pattern that includes intra- and extracardiac myxomas, lentiginous lesions, blue
nevi, other functional endocrine tumors, and peripheral nerve tumors (Carney’s complex).
We report a patient in whom bilateral myelolipomas were found, in addition to the usual features of this complex. A 29-yr-old
man was admitted to the hospital for Cushing’s syndrome of probably more than 15 yr duration. Physical examination showed
diffuse facial hyperchromatic macules, 0.2–0.5 cm, predominantly around the lips and on the palmar surfaces of the fingers.
Results with dexamethasone suppression nocturnal testing (1 and 8 mg) were compatible with an adrenal adenoma. The computed
tomography (CT) of the sella turcica was normal. Adrenal CT showed a tumor in the left gland with a double component: one
solid and another suggestive of fat, consistent with an angiomyelolipoma. Following 5 wk treatment with ketoconazole, 800
mg per day po, serum cortisol decreased to 5.9 μg/dL, morning and evening, respectively.
Bilateral adrenalectomy was performed. Pathologic examination revealed pigmented nodular cortical hypersplasia and a dominant
myelolipoma in the left adrenal. A microscopic myelolipoma was identified in the right adrenal.
An echocardiogram showed a mass on the posterior wall of the left ventricle which was a myxoma. Study of the patient's family
disclosed two sisters with facial lentigines. Echocardiograms were performed on all available first degree relatives: all
were normal. Nocturnal inhibition with dexamethasone revealed that one of the patient’s sisters with lentigines also had hypercortisolism.
Myelolipoma has been reported in association to Cushing syndrome in humans and experimentally after pituitary extracts in
animals. The relationship between this finding and the Carney’s complex remain elusive. 相似文献
The genome of the gray, short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica, will be the first of any marsupial to be fully sequenced. The utility of this sequence will be greatly enhanced by construction
and integration of detailed genetic and physical maps. Therefore, it is important to verify the unusual recombinational characteristics
that were suggested by the ‘first-generation’ M. domestica linkage map; specifically, very low levels of recombination and severely reduced female recombination, both of which are
contrary to patterns in other vertebrates. We constructed a new linkage map based on a different genetic cross, using a new
and much larger set of map markers, and physically anchored and oriented the linkage groups onto chromosomes via fluorescence
in-situ hybridization mapping. This map includes 150 loci in eight autosomal linkage groups corresponding to the eight autosome pairs,
and spans 86–89% of the autosomal genome. The sex-averaged autosomal map covers 715 cM, with a full-length estimate of 866 cM;
the shortest full-length linkage map reported for any vertebrate. The sex-specific maps confirmed severely reduced female
recombination in all linkage groups, and an overall F/M map ratio = 0.54. These results greatly extend earlier findings,
and provide an improved microsatellite-based linkage map for this species.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
Administration of interleukin-1 (IL-1 ) plus certain cytotoxic drugs causes substantially greater clonogenic tumor-cell kill and tumor-regrowth delay than does treatment with either agent alone. IL-1 itself has little effect on tumor growth despite its ability to induce acute hemorrhagic necrosis, restrict tumor blood flow, and cause microvascular injury in a variety of murine model systems. To investigate further IL-1 's ability to enhance the antitumor activity of cytotoxic drugs, we initiated studies to examine the effect of IL-1 on cisplatin (cDDP)-mediated cytotoxicity using the RIF-1 tumor system. The antitumor activity of IL-1 and cDDP was quantitated through standard clonogenic tumor-cell survival assays, a tumor hemorrhagic necrosis assay and tumor-regrowth delay studies, with the interaction between IL-1 and cDDP being analyzed through median dose-effect. In vitro, IL-1 had no enhancing effect on the cDDP-mediated tumorcell kill. For examination of the in vivo efficacy of this regimen. RIF-1 tumor-bearing C3H/HeJ mice (14 days postimplantation) were treated concurrently with single i.p. injections of IL-1 and/or cDDP at various doses. The increased clonogenic tumor-cell kill obtained with IL-1 /cDDP was dose-dependent, with significant enhancement by IL-1 being observed (P<0.001), even at the lowest doses tested (2 mg/kg and 6 g/kg for cDDP and IL-1 , respectively), but it did not correlate with an increase in tumor hemorrhage. Using median dose-effect analysis, this interaction was determined to be strongly synergistic. When treated animals were monitored for long-term antitumor effects, combinations with IL-1 significantly increased the tumor-regrowth delay and decreased the fractional tumor volume (P<0.001). These results demonstrate that IL-1 synergistically enhances cDDP mediated in vivo antitumor activity and suggest that the combination of IL-1 and cDDP may have potential therapeutic application in the design of effective treatment modalities for cancer.Abbreviations IL-1
interleukin-1
- cDDP
cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (cisplatin)
- BRMs
biological response modifiers
- TNF
tumor necrosis factor
- IFN
interferon
- Fa
traction affected
- Dm or ED50
drug concentration necessary to produce Fa=0.5 as compared with untreated controls
- CI
combination index; SF, surviving fraction
- ANOVA
oneway analysis of variance
This work was supported in part by Public Health Service grant CA-48077 from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, by the Mary Hillman Jennings Foundation, and by the Ramona DeSantis Cancer Research Fund 相似文献
Genetic and epigenetic alterations have been identified as to contribute directly or indirectly to the generation of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder (TCC-UB). In a comparative fashion much less is known about copy number alterations in TCC-UB, but it appears that amplification of chromosome 6p22 is one of the most frequent changes. Using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses, we evaluated chromosomal 6p22 amplification in a large cohort of bladder cancer patients with complete surgical staging and outcome data. We have also used shRNA knockdown candidate oncogenes in the cell based study. We found that amplification of chromosome 6p22.3 is significantly associated with the muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder (TCC-UB) (22%) in contrast to superficial TCC-UB (9%) (p=7.2-04). The rate of 6p22.3 amplification in pN>1 patients (32%) is more than twice that in pN0 (16%) patients (p=0.05). Interestingly, we found that 6p22.3 amplification is as twice as high (p=0.0201) in African American (AA) than European American (EA) TCC-UB patients. Moreover, we showed that the expression of some candidate genes (E2F3, CDKAL1 and Sox4) in the 6p22.3 region is highly correlated with the chromosomal amplification. In particular, knockdown of E2F3 inhibits cell proliferation in a 6p22.3-dependent manner, whereas knockdown of CDKAL1 and Sox4 has no effect on cell proliferation. Using gene expression profiling, we further identified some common as well as distinctive subset targets of the E2F3 family members. In summary, our data indicate that E2F3 is a key regulator of cell proliferation in a subset of bladder cancer and the 6p22.3 amplicon is a biomarker of aggressive phenotype in this tumor type. 相似文献