Staging of nutrition disorders in non-small-cell lung cancer patients: utility of skeletal muscle mass assessment.

Background: An international consensus proposed in 2011 a definition and classification system for cachexia (CAX), mainly based on weight loss, sarcopenia [skeletal muscle mass (SMM) loss], inflammation, and anorexia. The aim of this study was to stage CAX in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients by using a classification based on the Fearon criteria and supported by quantifiable parameters.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional and non-interventional multicentre study.

Impact of geriatric assessment for the therapeutic decision-making of breast cancer: results of a French survey. AFSOS and SOFOG collaborative work.

Background: Cancer management in the elderly is often considered as suboptimal, highly variable, and rarely evidence-based. Data are needed to understand decision-making processes in this population.

Materials And Methods: A survey was performed in France to describe decision-making in gynaecologic patients over 70.

[Fever with normal sedimentation rate. 30 cases].

Thirty patients (19 females, 11 males), with a mean age of 42 +/- 21 years, who presented a fever associated with a normal sedimentation rate prospectively studied. Mean fever duration at admission was 11 days (range: 1-90). Diagnosis included bacterial (12 cases) or viral (9 cases) infections, malaria (2 cases), systemic disease (2 cases), abnormal temperature control (2 cases) and lymphoma (1 cases).

Contributions of promoter context and structure to regulated expression of the F plasmid traY promoter in Escherichia coli K-12.

Expression of the F plasmid traY promoter in vivo requires both host (E. coli) and plasmid encoded proteins. As judged by transcript size and primer extension analyses, the F plasmid traY promoter was utilized in vitro by purified E.