Hope, coping strategies, and their predictors in older patients with prostate and breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy: A cross-sectional study.

Introduction: The aim of this paper was to evaluate the level of hope, coping methods, and the factors affecting them in patients aged 60 years and over who were diagnosed with breast and prostate cancer and who were receiving radiotherapy (RT) as part of their treatment.

Methods: A total of 66 patients (37 breast cancer and 29 prostate cancer patients) were included in this cross-sectional study. The RT and treatment information of the patients were collected by using the records in the hospital database.

Ultrastructural investigation of synaptic alterations in the rat hippocampus after irradiation and hyperthermia.

This study aimed to investigate ultrastructural synaptic alterations in rat hippocampus after in utero exposure to irradiation (IR) and postnatal exposure to hyperthermia (HT). There were four groups in each of the time points (3 and 6 months). IR group: Pregnant rats were exposed to radiation on the 17 gestational day.

Outcome of Early-Stage Glottic Laryngeal Carcinoma Patients Treated with Radical Radiotherapy Using Different Techniques.

Purpose: The aim was to evaluate the treatment outcomes and prognostic characteristics of patients with early-stage glottic laryngeal carcinoma who underwent radical radiotherapy (RT) with different techniques.

Patients And Methods: Radiotherapy was applied using the 2D conventional technique between 1991 and 2004 (130 patients), 3DCRT until 2014 (125 patients), and by VMAT until January 2017 (44 patients). Clinical T stages were 38 (12.

Dosimetric comparison of anterior posterior-posterior anterior 2-field three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy, 4-field three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy and "forward" plan intensity modulated radiotherapy techniques in female lymphoma patients irradiated to neck and mediastinum.

Aim: Dosimetric comparison of three different techniques in female lymphoma patients who had radiotherapy (RT) to the neck and mediastinum.

Setting And Design: Retrospective clinical study.

Materials And Methods: Computerized tomography-simulator images of eight patients were obtained retrospectively.

The prognostic value of morphologic findings for lung squamous cell carcinoma patients.

Background: Novel histopathological prognostic features for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of lung, such as tumor budding, mitotic rate, tumor stroma ratio, stroma type, stromal inflammation and necrosis, have been evaluated in the literature. In this study, the prognostic value of multiple morphological features is assessed in lung SCC.

Materials And Methods: This study reports on seventy-six patients with lung SCC treated with complete surgical excision.

Distribution of Zonula Occludens-1 and Occludin and alterations of testicular morphology after in utero radiation and postnatal hyperthermia in rats.

In utero irradiation (IR) and postnatal hyperthermia (HT) exposure cause infertility by decreasing spermatogenic colony growth and the number of sperm in rats. Four groups were used: (i) Control group, (ii) HT group (rats exposed to hyperthermia on the 10th postnatal day), (iii) IR group (rats exposed to IR on the 17th gestational day) and (iv) IR + HT group. Three and six months after the procedures testes were examined by light and electron microscopy.

Hippocampal neuronal damage in rats exposed to a double hit: irradiation and hyperthermia.

Aim: In utero irradiation models induce diffuse neuronal damage. Experimental studies have shown that hyperthermia induced seizures are easily elicited and have high mortality accompanied by neuronal loss. Neuronal damage and loss are the results of cell death coupled with cortical development in altered cellular development.

The impact of trastuzumab on radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis: results of an experimental study.

There are no data regarding the late toxicity of trastuzumab (T) administration with radiotherapy (RT). In this experimental study, we aimed to asses if concurrent or sequential administration of T has any impact for the development of radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats. Fifty-four female Wistar-albino rats were divided into 6 groups.

The effects of tamoxifen on radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis in Wistar albino rats: results of an experimental study.

This study was performed to evaluate the effects of tamoxifen on pulmonary fibrosis, given concurrently with or after irradiation in Wistar albino rats. Twenty-one female Wistar albino rats were randomized into three groups. The first group (Group A) had tamoxifen, which was started after the completion of irradiation.