Survival Disparities among Cancer Patients Based on Mobility Patterns: A Population-Based Study.

Cancer is a major health problem worldwide. A growing number of cancer patients travel to hospitals outside their residential cities due to unbalanced medical resources. We aimed to evaluate the association between patterns of patient mobility and survival among patients with cancer.

Efficacy of high-dose-rate brachytherapy with different radiation source activities among cervical cancer patients and risk factors for long-term outcomes: A 6-year retrospective study.

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the impact of dose rates due to natural decay of Iridium-192 sources and the risk factors of clinical outcomes for cervical cancer patients treated with high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy.

Methods And Materials: Four ninety-four patients were divided into relatively-high-radioactive (rHR), relatively-medium-radioactive (rMR), and relatively-low-radioactive (rLR) groups for retrospective treatment response comparison. The short-term outcomes were evaluated using the 1-month /3-month follow-up results based on RECIST 1.

Prognostic Factors Analysis of Metastatic Recurrence in Cervical Carcinoma Patients Treated with Definitive Radiotherapy: A Retrospective Study Using Mixture Cure Model.

Objectives: This study aims to identify prognostic factors associated with metastatic recurrence-free survival of cervical carcinoma (CC) patients treated with radical radiotherapy and assess the cure probability of radical radiotherapy from metastatic recurrence.

Methods: Data were from 446 cervical carcinoma patients with radical radiotherapy for an average follow up of 3.96 years.

Improved Thermal and Electromagnetic Shielding of PEEK Composites by Hydroxylating PEK-C Grafted MWCNTs.

With the rapid rise of new technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence, electronic products are becoming smaller and higher power, and there is an increasing demand for electromagnetic interference shielding and thermal conductivity of electronic devices. In this work, hydroxyphenolphthalein type polyetherketone grafted carboxy carbon nanotube (PEK-C-OH-g-MWCNTs-COOH) composites were prepared by esterification reaction. The composites exhibited good thermal conductivity, and compared with (MWCNTs-COOH/PEEK) with randomly distributed fillers, (PEK-C-OH-g-MWCNTs-COOH) composites showed a significant advantage, with the same carbon nanotube content, the thermal conductivity of PEK-C-OH-g-MWCNTs-COOH/PEEK (30 wt%) was 0.