Prognostic factors of primary resected retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma: Analysis from a single asian tertiary center and external validation of gronchi's nomogram.

Background: Surgery is the potentially curative treatment for retroperitoneal sarcoma (RS), but complete resectability is frequently a challenge. This study aimed to characterize the clinical features, prognostic factors and treatment outcomes.

Methods: A cohort of 144 patients with RS was surveyed retrospectively from January 1st, 2000 to July 30th, 2011.

The impact of pain control on physical and psychiatric functions of cancer patients: a nation-wide survey in Taiwan.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of pain in cancer patients at different disease statuses, the impact of pain on physical and psychiatric functions of patients and the satisfaction of pain control of patients at outpatient clinic department in Taiwan.

Methods: Short form of the Brief Pain Inventory was used as the outcome questionnaire. Unselected patients of different cancers and different disease statuses at outpatient clinic department were included.

Host factors do not influence the colonization or infection by fluconazole resistant Candida species in hospitalized patients.

Nosocomial yeast infections have significantly increased during the past two decades in industrialized countries, including Taiwan. This has been associated with the emergence of resistance to fluconazole and other antifungal drugs. The medical records of 88 patients, colonized or infected with Candida species, from nine of the 22 hospitals that provided clinical isolates to the Taiwan Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance of Yeasts (TSARY) program in 1999 were reviewed.