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This observational, retrospective cohort study will evaluate the risk of immune-related adverse events associated with PD-1 inhibitors use compared to standard chemotherapy use in patients with non small cell lung cancer, using nationwide healthcare database. PD-1 inhibitors will be defined as
Globally, the mortality after any infection in cirrhosis patients is very high. The cumulative mortality in patients with infections was 43.5% (11,987 patients) where as the mortality rate without infection was 13.6% (2317 patients). Over the years, variceal bleeding causing death in cirrhosis has
Hereditary Tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1) is a rare genetic disorder in which the newborn child lacks the ability to break down the amino acid tyrosine. As a result of this deficiency, toxic sub-stances build up in the blood and can cause liver failure, kidney dysfunction and neurological problems. There
Activation of EGFR signalling can lead to increased transcription of COX-2. Increased COX-2 transcription results in enhanced production of PGs, including PGE2, which in turn can activate EGFR initiating a positive feedback loop. Although majority of HNSCC over-express EGFR, the clinical responses
The purpose of this prospective, single centre, non-randomised, open-label, phase II study will evaluate the activity of dovitinib in the treatment naïve population of patients with advanced RCC.
Background: Prior to the middle of last decade, the only systemic therapy for patients with advanced RCC
International study of CML in children and adolescents
1. Rational and objectives 1.1 Rational: Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a malignant disease of the hematopoietic system characterized by the presence a reciprocal translocation between chromosome 9 and 22. CML is a very rare disease in
Pancreatic cancer is nearly universally fatal, with approximately 38,000 new cases and 34,000 deaths expected in 2008.1 The majority of patients present with disease that is not amenable to curative resection. For patients with metastatic disease, one standard treatment is the combination of
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is caused by autoimmune and autoinflammatory destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans. Historically, treatment for this condition has consisted of insulin replacement therapy and dietary modification. Recent studies have
MATERIAL AND METHODS
After approval by the Hospital Review Board, we obtained formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded specimens from 115 patients with primary oral SCC and 66 patients with oral ED at the Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Diagnosis of oral SCC
Ovarian cancer is diagnosed in approximately 26,000 American women each year, and is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers. Difficult to detect, the disease typically presents only when advanced. Ovarian cancer is among the most sensitive of solid tumors to chemotherapy. However, the