Adolescents' Health Awareness and Understanding of Cancer and Tumor Prevention: When and Why an Adolescent Decides to Consult a Physician.

Background: A feature often seen in adolescent patients with cancer is a lengthy symptom interval, especially in comparison with children. It has been suggested that inadequate awareness of cancer risk among adolescents may play an important role in this study.

Methods: The Società Italiana Adolescenti con Malattie Onco-ematologiche and the Fondazione Umberto Veronesi conducted a survey to investigate health awareness among healthy adolescents and their understanding of cancer and its signs and symptoms by commissioning a specialized agency (AstraRicerche).

[Motion of the interventricular septum in patients with right intraventricular electric stimulators. Echocardiographic and vectorcardiographic study].

An echo- and vectorcardiographic study had been performed in order to analyze the motion of the interventricular septum (IVS) in thirty-six patients with chronic pacing at the apex of the right ventricle. As this pattern has been reported as just like that of LBBB, five patients with LBBB have been studied as well, with transient pacing. As far as the first group, in 25 P.