The European Paediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG) RMS 2005 trial evaluated maintenance chemotherapy in high-risk rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS). Patients were randomly assigned to either discontinue treatment (standard arm) or receive six 28-day cycles of vinorelbine (25 mg/m) once per day on days 1, 8, and 15, plus once daily low-dose cyclophosphamide (25 mg/m; experimental arm). Initial results showed improved overall survival (OS), but disease-free survival (DFS) improvement was not statistically significant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a review about histological sub-lethal effects due to anthropogenic contaminants on the midgut of bees and other aculeate hymenopterans. Contaminant types, damage types, and methodology were extracted and summarized from 74 published articles, and then quantitatively analyzed. We found that the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera) is by far the most widely used model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFData on BRAF/MEK inhibitors in pediatric and adolescent melanoma patients are limited. We report data of patients treated with dabrafenib/trametinib for compassionate use at our institution. From January 2020, four patients with Stage III and two patients with Stage IV disease were treated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSmall intestinal neuroendocrine tumors (siNETs) are rare bowel tumors arising from malignant enteroendocrine cells, which normally regulate digestion throughout the intestine. Though infrequent, their incidence is rising through better diagnosis, fostering research into their origin and treatment. To date, siNETs are considered to be a single entity and are clinically treated as such.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis Letter presents a search for highly ionizing magnetic monopoles in 262 μb^{-1} of ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collision data at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.36 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A new methodology that exploits the properties of clusters of hits reconstructed in the innermost silicon detector layers is introduced to study highly ionizing particles in heavy-ion data.
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