Breast cancer is the most common disease in women worldwide, which not only threatened the women’s survival time, but also inlfuenced their quality of life as well. Within this challenge, it’s important to optimize the current multidisciplinary treatment stratagem for breast cancer. Radiotherapy is one of the most important treatment modality for patients with breast cancer, with the trend to shrink the irradiated volume and shorten the total fraction times in recent years. Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) as a fast and convenient procedure has the ability to deliver a high, single-fraction radiation dose to tumor beds with minimal exposure of surrounding tissues (lung, heart, etc.), which could be displaced or shielded right after the tumor removal during the surgical procedure. Right now, IORT has been either integrated as a boost technique in multimodal approaches using postoperative EBRT in the treatment of early breast cancer patients undergoing breast conservation surgery or used as a single dose accelerated partial breast irradiation technique for these patients. This review discussed the rationale of IORT, the beneifts and limitations of IORT, the indication and the clinical results of this procedure, including treatment related side-effects as well in order to provide the preliminary evidence based approach for early breast cancer patients.

Objective To map the complete methylation status of the hMLH1 promoter in sporadic colorectal carcinoma and analyze the relationship between MVPs (methylation variable positions) of hMLH1 promoter and the expression of hMLH1. Methods Methylation status of hMLH1 promoter was measured by bisulfite sequencing. hMLH1 protein expression was detected by immunohistochemistry. Results Out of the 30 sporadic colorectal carcinoma specimens, the hypermethylation of CGIs (CpG islands) 1 was in 6 and that of CGIs 2 in 4. The hMLH1 protein was detected in 15 specimens. Chi square test showed the methylation of CGIs 1 was closely related to loss of hMLH1 protein expression (P0.05). Conclusion In CGIs 1, CpG positions from 1 to 28 are the critical region that could influence the expression of hMLH1.

Hemorrhoid refers to soft vein mass formed by varicosity of submucosal veins around the end of the rectum and subcutanceous veins of the anal canal. It is the most common anorectal disease. This article summarized the regular patterns, features and advantages of Professor Yu Hai-Bo's acupuncture-moxibustion therapy for hemorrhoids, in order to guide the acupuncture treatment for hemorrhoids.

Trans-cinnamaldehyde, the main component of volatile oil from cassia twig or Cinnamomum cassia, which is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Trans-cinnamaldehyde is a kind olefine aldehyde of organic compounds and has many pharmacological properties, such as anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-bacterial, antidiabetic, anti-obesity, and neuroprotection etc. The compound has preventive and therapeutic effects on the nervous system, cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes and other diseases. Trans-cinnamaldehyde, as a preventive care of nature medicine, has great clinical and market potential. This paper gives a review about the pharmacological effects and mechanism of trans-cinnamaldehyde researched in the latest five years. We hope to provide some basic information for further research on trans-cinnamaldehyde.
Acrolein ; analogs & derivatives ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Animals ; Cinnamomum aromaticum ; chemistry ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Humans

Adult ; Barotrauma ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Hand Injuries ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Paint

Objective To observe the anti‐metastatic effect and mechanism of baicalin on the growth of HeLa cells was measured by MTT assay ,and cell migration baicalin on human cervical cancer HeLa cells .Methods The effects of baicalin on the proliferation and invasion of HeLa cells were analyzed by MTT method and Transwell assay .Moreover ,Real‐time PCR was used for investigating the expressions of MMP‐2 and MMP‐9 at the RNA level .Western blot was used for investigating the expressions of MMP‐2 ,MMP‐9 ,P38 and p‐P38 at the protein level .Results Baicalin could significantly inhibit the proliferation of HeLa cells in the dose‐dependent manner at the concentration above 60 μg/mL . Anti‐metastatic signaling induced by baicalin was characterized by down‐regulating the RNA and protein expressions of MMP‐2 and MMP‐9 ,and down‐regulating the phosphorylation level of P38 . Pre‐treatment of P38 signal pathway inhibitor could enhance the inhibitory effect of baicalin on the expressions of MMP‐2 and MMP‐9 .Conclusion These results indicate that baicalin‐induced anti‐metastatic effect involves the inhibition of MMP‐2 and MMP‐9 in HeLa cells through P38 signal pathway .

Objective Objective To investigate the clinical application of high-dose-rate(HDR)endobronchial brachytherapy for the treatment of primary lung cancer with atelectasis. Methods A total of 142 cases of lung cancer with atelectasis treated with HDR endobronchial brachytherapy and 71 cases(contr01)treated with extemal irradiation only at onr center of cancer were comparatively studied.1n the treatment group,with the aid of bmnchoscope,brachytherapy was applied 2 or 3 times at the dose of 8 Gy each time to a tissue depth of 1 to 1.5 cm.Cases in the contmlgroup,treated with external irradiation,received 60-70 Gy in total.Results Complete recruitment of atelectasis was observed in 80.28%cases of the treatment group and 64.79%in the control,T11ere Was significant difference between the two groups.Survival rates after 1,2 and 3 years in cases with complete remission of atelectasis in treatment group were 60.68%,44.44%and 23.93%,but 36.00%,28.00%and 16.00%in cases with no remission of atelectasis.Significant difference of one-year survival Was found between the two groups(P

ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical value of Young's modulus by supersonic shear wave elastography (SWE) in differential diagnosis of thyroid solid nod1ules.MethodsEighty-three patients with 113 solid nodules were examined by SWE.All the nodules were confirmed by pathology.According to Young's modulus,a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was drawn,and it used to identify the value of optimal operating point for differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules.Results ① The mean of Young's modulus of benign nodules was (23.57 ± 9.35)kPa,which was significantly different from the valve of malignant nodules (43.73 ± 19.82) kPa ( t =6.31,P =0.00).(②) It showed that the optimal operating point of ROC curve as 27.49,with high sensitivity(93.2％),specificity(81.2％) and accuracy (85.8％).The area under ROC curve was 0.91.Conclusions SWE is a newly quantitative technique of ultrasonography,which is helpful to identify and distinguish in the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules.

Objective To explore an effective method for preventing and treating oral mucosal complications of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. Methods Fifty head and neck cancer patients who were receiving radiotherapy were enrolled between March, 2008 and March, 2010. These patients were randomly assigned to the treatment group and the control group. During the radiotherapy, patients in the treatment group were given IL-11 in the form of atomization inhalation,whereas patients in the control group were not. Results IL-1 1 was well tolerated by the patients. It significantly decreased the level of oral mucosal complications and pains and improved patients' appetites ( P < 0.05 ). In addition, the duration of pain was significantly ( P <0.05 ) reduced from 4.5 ± 1.3 days ( in control group) to 2.3 ± 1.0 ( in treatment group), and the healing period was also significantly ( P < 0.05) reduced from 7.3 ± 1.5 days ( in control group) to 4.1 ± 1.7 ( in treatment group). Conclusion IL-11 is effective in preventing and treating oral mucosal complications of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer,relieving associated pains, and therefore improving patients' quality of life.

Objective To investigate the feasibility of the lower cervical spine (C3 -C7 ) laminar screw technique for fixing adult posterior cervical spine .Methods We chose 9 formalin fixed moist adult cervical specimens ,which consist of male 6 and female 3 of the age 38 to 63 years old .The average age is 51 .9 years old and the average height is 165 .6 cm .Then we measured the thickness and heightof C3 -C7 lamina ,the lamina length of L1 ,L2 ,and the lamina of axis and the sagittal plane angle .Results The thickness and height of C3 -C7 lamina ,and the lamina length of L1 and L2 of adult male is bigger than adult women .There was statistical sig-nificance between the thickness ,height ,lamina length difference of different genders lamina (P<0 .05) ,but no significant difference between the left and the right (P> 0 .05) .The average lamina thickness of C2 ,C3 ,C4 ,C5 ,C6 ,C7 were respectively 4 .70 ,3 .87 , 3 .30 ,3 .84 and 5 .16 mm .The lamina thickness which was more than 4 .00 mm accounted for 54 .4% .The lamina thickness of C3 , C4 ,C6 ,C7 which was more than 4 .00 mm accounted respectively for 77 .8% ,61 .1% ,33 .3% ,and 88 .9% .Conclusion Crossing laminar screws in cervical spine is feasible in anatomy .The operation can make under direct vision ,and can accurately estimate the screw path length and entry angle .Patients with anatomic abnormalities can be used as an alternative fixation technique or as fixed in the fixed mode fails .So the results can provide a reference for clinical application .