Food-allergy-specific anxiety and distress in parents of children with food allergy: A systematic review.

Background: Parenting a child with food allergy (FA) can lead to impaired quality of life and family functioning. Anxiety is a critical component of FA-associated distress and a potential target for therapeutic intervention. This systematic review aimed to clarify the concept of FA-specific anxiety (FAA) and its antecedents, consequences, and correlates and to determine the extent to which existing FA-specific outcome measures capture symptoms of parental distress and FAA.

Survival of patients with resected pIIIa - N2 non small cell lung cancer: suggestion for subclassification.

Purpose: The group of completely resected stage IIIa- N2 non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is considered heterogeneous in various aspects including survival and pattern of recurrence. The prognostic factors still remain controversial. Clinical trials dealing with multimodal strategy for N2 NSCLC are being watched with keen interest, and the feasibility of this strategy is to be confirmed.

p53 and c-myc alterations in patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma in Serbia.

Purpose: To determine the incidence of c-myc amplification and p53 mutations in patients with stage I, II and III of histologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) of different histological subtypes: adenocarcinomas (AC), squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), large cell carcinomas (LCC) and adeno-squamous carcinomas (AC-SCC) and of histological grade (G) 2 and 3.

Materials And Methods: DNA was isolated from 41 frozen tumor samples by standard phenol-chloroform extraction. Amplification of c-myc gene was determined by the differential polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, followed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and mutations in exons 5, 6, 7 and 8 p53 gene were detected by the PCR single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) method.