574 results match your criteria: "Newcastle Hospital[Affiliation]"
Int J Environ Res Public Health
November 2022
School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia.
Objective: Hospital treated deliberate self-poisoning is common in young people. Internationally, estimates of rates of depression in this population are very wide (14.6% to 88%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Chem
December 2022
School of Science, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South, NSW 2751, Australia.
A novel platinum(II) complex and its platinum(IV) derivative were synthesized and characterized. Cytotoxicity studies against mesenchymal cells (MCs) and lung (A549), breast (MDA-MB-231), and melanoma (A375) cancer cells demonstrated 7-20-fold superior activity for both complexes relative to cisplatin. Remarkably, demonstrated 17-22-fold greater selectivity toward the cancerous cells compared to the non-cancerous MCs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhys Eng Sci Med
March 2023
Department of Radiation Oncology, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
This study quantified the performance of Intra-fraction Motion Review (IMR) during prostate Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) treatments. IMR was evaluated using prostate motion data from patients treated in an SBRT clinical trial (PROMETHEUS, NCT00587990).IMR measured prostate displacements were compared to those of two 3D motion management methods: Kilovoltage Intra-fraction Motion management (KIM) and MV/kV triangulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
November 2022
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Division of Surgery, John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NSW 2305, Australia.
Background: Active patient participation in preparation and recovery from colorectal cancer surgery can be facilitated by timely information and care and may improve patient wellbeing and reduce hospitalizations; Methods: We aimed to identify gaps in perioperative information and care by asking colorectal cancer surgical patients to retrospectively report on their perceptions of care via a cross-sectional survey; Results: Overall, 179 (64% consent rate) patients completed one of two 64-item surveys exploring their views of 'optimal care' or their experiences of 'actual care'. In total, 41 (64%) aspects of care were endorsed as optimal. Of these, almost three-quarters (73%) were received by most patients (80% or more).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBr J Clin Pharmacol
February 2023
Department of Emergency Medicine & Clinical Toxicology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia.
Olanzapine pamoate is an intramuscular depot injection for the treatment of schizophrenia. Approximately 1.4% of patients develop a serious adverse event called post-injection delirium/sedation syndrome (PDSS), characterised by drowsiness, anticholinergic and extrapyramidal symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Oncol
October 2022
University of Rennes, CLCC Eugène Marquis, INSERM, LTSI - UMR 1099, Rennes, France.
The quality assurance of synthetic CT (sCT) is crucial for safe clinical transfer to an MRI-only radiotherapy planning workflow. The aim of this work is to propose a population-based process assessing local errors in the generation of sCTs and their impact on dose distribution. For the analysis to be anatomically meaningful, a customized interpatient registration method brought the population data to the same coordinate system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMolecules
October 2022
School of Science, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Sydney, NSW 2751, Australia.
A new series of cytotoxic platinum(IV) complexes (-) incorporating halogenated phenylacetic acid derivatives (4-chlorophenylacetic acid, 4-fluorophenylacetic acid, 4-bromophenylacetic acid and 4-iodophenylacetic acid) were synthesised and characterised using spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques. Complexes - were assessed on a panel of cell lines including HT29 colon, U87 glioblastoma, MCF-7 breast, A2780 ovarian, H460 lung, A431 skin, Du145 prostate, BE2-C neuroblastoma, SJ-G2 glioblastoma, MIA pancreas, the ADDP-resistant ovarian variant, and the non-tumour-derived MCF10A breast line. The in vitro cytotoxicity results confirmed the superior biological activity of the studied complexes, especially those containing 4-fluorophenylacetic acid and 4-bromophenylacetic acid ligands, namely and , eliciting an average GI value of 20 nM over the range of cell lines tested.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRep Pract Oncol Radiother
July 2022
Servicio de Oncología Radioterápica, Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: The purpose of this study was to describe the use of the VIPER software for patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) of single-isocenter multitarget (SIMT) stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) plans.
Materials And Methods: Twenty clinical of intensity-modulated (IMRT) SIMT SRS plans were reviewed. A total of 88 brain metastases were included.
World Rev Nutr Diet
October 2022
Newcastle Hospital NHS Trust, Newcastle Neonatal Service, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
J Clin Oncol
January 2023
Melanoma Institute Australia, University of Sydney, and Royal North Shore and Mater Hospitals, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Phys Ther Sport
November 2022
School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, United Kingdom.
Objectives: Investigate the British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification (BAMIC) grading system as a predictor of return to play (RTP) following primary hamstring strain injury (HSI) and its agreement with the Peetron's classification system in professional footballers.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study of 39 hamstrings strains in a professional English football club were identified. Two musculoskeletal radiologists reviewed historical MRI's and classified them against the BAMIC and Peetron's grading system.
Med Dosim
November 2022
Strategic Investment & Clinical Care, Icon Group, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Introduction: The Ethos treatment planning system allows for the rapid generation of online adaptive treatment plans while the patient is on the treatment couch. One promising application of online adaptive radiotherapy is its use in stereotactic radiotherapy. The purpose of this study was to ensure the Ethos treatment planning system (TPS) can produce clinically acceptable stereotactic plans, that are non-inferior to those from the Eclipse TPS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF3 Biotech
October 2022
Department of Applied Sciences, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Brush Rd, Ourimbah, NSW 2258 Australia.
This study aimed to determine the phytochemical, antioxidant, and anticancer activities of the crude extract and its fractions of . The results showed that total phenolic content (TPC), their secondary metabolites (flavonoids-TFC; proanthocyanidins-TPro), and antioxidant activity were significantly different between the crude extract and its fractions. The butanol fraction (F3) had the highest levels of TPC, TFC, and TPro, followed by the crude extract, aqueous fraction (F4), dichloromethyl fraction (F2), and hexane fraction (F1).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExplor Target Antitumor Ther
February 2022
Cancer Cell Biology Research Group, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales 2308, Australia.
The importance of Ca signaling, and particularly Ca channels, in key events of cancer cell function such as proliferation, metastasis, autophagy and angiogenesis, has recently begun to be appreciated. Of particular note are two-pore channels (TPCs), a group of recently identified Ca-channels, located within the endolysosomal system. TPC2 has recently emerged as an intracellular ion channel of significant pathophysiological relevance, specifically in cancer, and interest in its role as an anti-cancer drug target has begun to be explored.
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December 2022
Department of Haematology, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital Edith Street Waratah, NSW 2298, Australia. Electronic address:
Using 753 collections from 426 adult haematology patients, we conducted a retrospective, analysis into the effects of overnight storage and nucleated cell counts (NCC) on viable, CD34 (vCD34) recovery and engraftment kinetics post autologous stem cell, transplant (ASCT) with peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC). There were significant, differences in vCD34 + recovery ( P < 0.01) after cryopreservation associated with, the fresh NCC of ≥ 300 × 10 /mL in products stored overnight, but no association, with time to platelet or neutrophil engraftment post-ASCT was observed for these, products.
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May 2022
Discipline of Chemistry, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia.
Tetrachlorinated phthalimide analogues bearing a boron-pinacolate ester group were synthesised via two synthetic routes and evaluated in their glycosidase modulating and anticancer properties, with a view to use them in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), a promising radiation type for cancer, as this therapy does little damage to biological tissue. An unexpected decarbonylation/decarboxylation to five 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobenzamides was observed and confirmed by X-ray crystallography studies, thus, giving access to a family of borylated 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobenzamides. Biological evaluation showed the benzamide drugs to possess good to weak potencies (74.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFN Engl J Med
June 2022
From the Division of Personalised Oncology, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (J.T., R.W., M.L., B.L., P.G.), the Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (J.T., B.L.), the Department of Medical Oncology, Western Health (J.T., S.K., M.L., P.G.), the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne (J.T., P.G.), the Department of Medical Oncology, Eastern Health (R.W., M.L.), the Eastern Health Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, Monash University (R.W., M.L.), the Department of Medical Oncology, Cabrini Health (J.S.), the Department of Medical Oncology, Monash Health (M.H.), the Department of Medical Oncology, St. Vincent's Hospital (S.-A.M.), and the Department of Medical Oncology, Northern Health (B.L.), Melbourne, VIC, the Research and Biostatistics Group, Melanoma Institute Australia, and the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney (S.N.L.), the Department of Medical Oncology, Bendigo Health, Bendigo, VIC (S.H.), the Department of Medical Oncology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, and Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA (A.K.), the Department of Medical Oncology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, and the University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD (M.B.), Newcastle Private Hospital (J.L.), and the Department of Medical Oncology, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital (F.D.), Newcastle, NSW, the Department of Medical Oncology, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, TAS (L.N.), and South West Healthcare, Warrnambool, VIC (T.H.) - all in Australia; the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics (J.D.C., Y.W., J.P., N.S., L.D., M.P., N.P., K.W.K., B.V.), the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (K.L., C.T.), Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (J.D.C., Y.W., J.P., N.S., L.D., M.P., R.H., A.M.L., N.P., K.W.K., B.V.), the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center (J.D.C., Y.W., J.P., N.S., L.D., M.P., R.H., A.M.L., N.P., K.W.K., B.V.), and the Departments of Pathology (R.H.) and Medicine (A.M.L.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (J.P., N.S., B.V.), the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (J.D.C.), and the Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (C.T.) - all in Baltimore; and the Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia (S.N.L.).
Background: The role of adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer continues to be debated. The presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) after surgery predicts very poor recurrence-free survival, whereas its absence predicts a low risk of recurrence. The benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy for ctDNA-positive patients is not well understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIr J Psychol Med
June 2022
Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Ireland.
Anthropology is defined as "the study of humans", while psychiatric anthropology is a subfield of cultural anthropology which uses qualitative methodologies to explore the experience of mental illness. In a field that is often dominated by quantitative research, an anthropological approach allows us to understand experiences surrounding illness and the cultural context of mental illness. The articles presented in this issue of the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine explore individual and group perspectives within a variety of cultural and historical contexts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCLs) are a heterogeneous group of aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas, the majority of which have high relapse rates following standard therapy. Despite use of consolidative stem cell transplant (SCT) following frontline therapy, there remains no consensus on its utility. The double-blind randomized phase 3 ECHELON-2 study (#NCT01777152; clinicaltrials.
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October 2022
School of Clinical Sciences, Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Obinutuzumab (G) chemoimmunotherapy demonstrated improved progression-free survival (PFS) vs rituximab-based chemoimmunotherapy in patients with previously untreated follicular lymphoma (FL) in the GALLIUM trial. Atezolizumab (atezo) is a programmed death-ligand 1 inhibitor with a complementary mechanism of action to G by restoring cytotoxic T-cell function. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of atezo-G-bendamustine in patients with previously untreated FL in a phase Ib/II trial (#NCT02596971).
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April 2022
Chemistry, School of Environmental & Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. Electronic address:
Virtual screening identified N-(6-((4-bromobenzyl)amino)hexyl)-3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzenesulfonamide (1) a lead compound that bound to the S100A2-p53 binding groove. S100A2 is a Ca binding protein with implications in cell signaling and is known to be upregulated in pancreatic cancer. It is a validated pancreatic cancer drug target.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Oncol
March 2022
Division of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
Background: For patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL), outcomes using frontline treatment with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (CHOP) or CHOP-like therapy are typically poor. The ECHELON-2 study demonstrated that brentuximab vedotin plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone (A+CHP) exhibited statistically superior progression-free survival (PFS) per independent central review and improvements in overall survival versus CHOP for the frontline treatment of patients with systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma or other CD30-positive PTCL.
Patients And Methods: ECHELON-2 is a double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, placebo-controlled, active-comparator phase III study.
Ir J Psychol Med
December 2021
Children Health Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Approaching 2 years into a global pandemic, it is timely to reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted the mental health of the global population. With research continuing apace, a clearer picture should crystallise in time. COVID-19 has undoubtedly had some impact on population mental health, although the severity and duration of this impact remain less clear.
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March 2023
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Mental health issues are fast becoming one of society's greatest health challenges with evidence of higher levels of illness and strain on psychiatric services. The reasons for this trend of increasing mental health problems across the population are complex and there is an urgent need to research and deliver effective public mental health strategies. In this perspective piece we argue that psychiatrists and public health physicians have unique knowledge and perspectives on population mental health.
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December 2021
Discipline of General Practice, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Scientific Advisory Committee, Immunisation Coalition, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS) has been associated with the AstraZencea (AZ) COVID-19 vaccine (Vaxzevria). Australia has reported low TTS incidence of < 3/100,000 after the first dose, with case fatality rate (CFR) of 5-6%. Risk-benefit analysis of vaccination has been challenging because of rapidly evolving data, changing levels of transmission, and variation in rates of TTS, COVID-19, and CFR between age groups.
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