Correlation between expression of thymidylate synthase and clinical outcome of advanced gastric cancer treated with capecitabine alone chemotherapy.

Thymidylate synthase (TS) is a prognostic marker in various tumors. However, the results of previous investigations in gastric cancer (GC) were controversial. The objective of this article is to investigate whether TS expression is associated with clinical outcome in advanced GC receiving capecitabine alone chemotherapy.

[Prospective study of the association between fasting glucose concentrations and liver cirrhosis risk].

Objective: To investigate the association between concentration levels of fasting serum glucose and liver cirrhosis.

Methods: A nested case-control study was carried out based on the sample cohort from the Nutrition Intervention Trials previously conducted in one country in Henan province. Using an automatic biochemical analysis system and enzyme-linked immunoassay, baseline serum samples from 310 liver cirrhosis patients and 620 healthy controls were tested for fasting glucose concentration, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc), and hepatitis C virus antibody (anti-HCV).

Life-style and genital human papillomavirus in a cross-sectional survey in Shanxi Province, China.

Background: To determine the age-stratified HPV prevalence rate and the risk factors of life-style associated with HPV infection among women in rural China.

Methods: An age-stratified, cross-sectional survey of 941 women between 16-59 years old was conducted in rural China. Carcinogenic HPV infection was determined using Digene's Hybrid Capture II HPV DNA test and interviews of life-style were conducted.

[Human papillomavirus genotype distribution in invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix in Mongolian women in inner Mongolia autonomy region].

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) and the HPV genotype distribution in invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix in the Mongolian women in Inner Mongolia autonomy region.

Methods: The prevalence data of HPV in our department were retrospectively reviewed. INNO-LiPA genotyping technique was used to detect HPV genotypes in the reserved carcinoma tissue specimens.

[Human papillomaviruses infections among village women in Henan province].

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) among village women in Henan and to determine its relevant risk factors.

Methods: A population based cross-sectional study on cervical cancer was conducted among village women in Xinmi, Henan. Women aged 20 - 54 who had sexual intercourse experiences were enrolled in this study.

[Present state of studies on anatomical anomalies in cryptorchidism].

Cryptorchidism is a clinically common congenital deformity of the genital organ, the etiological factors of which are still not clarified up to now. Undescended testis is frequently accompanied with the anomalies of the spermatic cord, gubernaculum testis, processus vaginalis, and epididymis. Because these anatomical anomalies act as terminal factors or the ending in the links of the cause of cryptorchidism, it is of important directive significance for the clinical treatment of the problem to seek evidence of anatomical anomalies at orchiopexy to demonstrate the etiological factors of cryptorchidism.