According to the medical history,imaging and pathological diagnosis,the advanced gastric cancer patients able to tolerate radiotherapy can be divided into the following three groups:(1) unresectable locally advanced or locally recurrent disease;(2) metastatic disease at primary diagnosis with stage Ⅳ;(3) patients experiencing severe tumor-related clinical symptoms.The role of palliative radiotherapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer would be discussed by reviewing 33 articles (8 in last five years,13 in ten years).

ObjectiveTo investigate the value of CEUS in differential diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid solid lesions.MethodsTotally 45 patients with thyroid solid lesions underwent CEUS examination.The enhancement mode and blood perfusion characteristics of malignant and benign lesions were analyzed,and the results were compared with pathology.ResultsCEUS diagnosed 31 benign lesions and 14 malignant masses.The diagnostic accordance rate of CEUS was 93.75％ (30/32) and 92.31％ (12/13) for benign and malignant lesions respectively.In 31 benign lesions,27 (27/31,87.10 ％) showed entire homogeneous enhancement,4 (4/31,12.90％) presented inhomogeneous enhancement.In 14 malignant masses,1 (1/14,7.14 ％) showed homogeneous hypoechoic enhancement,12 (12/14,85.71％) presented inhomogeneous hyperechoic enhancement and 1 (1/14,7.14％) presented non-enhancement.ConclusionCombined with two-dimensional grey scale ultrasound and CDFI,CEUS enables dynamic observation of the microvascular perfusion of thyroid lesions,therefore helps to differentiate benign and malignant thyroid lesions.

Objective To explore the related factors of nosocomial infection in children with leukemia and its character.Methods Retrospective analyzed 96 leukemia children with nosocomial infection who were come from 220 patients with acute leukemia.The information of the infection rate at different chemotherapy stages,different hospitalization time,site of infection and strain condition were recorded.Results (1) The infection rate of leukemia children at induction and consohdation stage were 85.7％ (24/28) and 76.7％ (23/30) respectively.(2) The infection rate increased with the duration of hospitalization periods.The infection rate was 8.6％ (3/35) at 0-7 d hospitalization periods and 62.7％ (42/67) at 15-30 d hospitalization periods.(3) The infection was prone to occurring at respiratory tract (58.3％,56/96),followed by gastrointestinal tract (17.7％ (17/96)),blood (13.5％ (13/96)),skin (8.3％ (8/96)) and other parts (2.1％ (2/96)).(4) The most frequency stain listed as Escherichia coli(21.8％ (26/96)),and Citrobacter (16.8％ (20/96)).The lower detection rates of the bacteria listed as Candida albicans (2.5％ (3/96)),Aspergillus(1.7％ (2/96)) and yeast (0.8％ (1/96)).Condusion Even though the survival rates of leukemia children is increasing due to technology development,nosocomial infection frequently occur.The high infection rates occur at chemotherapy induction and consolidation phase.Therefore intervention should be taken based on nosocomial infection in children leukemia such improving the environment of ward,enhancing the immune ability of children in order to decrease the incidence of hospital infection.

Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a lysophospholipid signaling molecule that regulates important biological functions in both intracellular and extracellular compartments. It interacts with five G protein-coupled receptors subtypes (S1PR(1-5)) to generate multiple downstream signaling. Activation of S1PR1 has been validated to be involved in the process of immune modulation. Fingolimod (FTY720), the novel S1PR1 agonist, has been approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis in clinical trials. The study towards discovery of selective S1PR1 agonists has become hot spot for immunological diseases. This article summarized the research progress of S1PR1 agonists, emphasizing their structure types, structure-activity relationship and direction of development.

Endometrial Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; secondary ; Female ; Humans ; Mesentery ; Middle Aged ; Neprilysin ; metabolism ; Peritoneal Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; Receptors, Estrogen ; metabolism ; Receptors, Progesterone ; metabolism ; Sarcoma, Endometrial Stromal ; metabolism ; pathology ; secondary

Objective To investigate the effect of medium- and long-chain triacylglycerols on body fat accumulation in subjects with different levels of hypertriglyceridemia. Methods 112 subjects with hypertriglyceridemia were randomly divided into two groups: one group was demanded to adopt long-chain triacylglycerol (LCT) oil as their daily use and the other one to medium- and long-chain triacylglycerol (MLCT) oil for consecutive 8 weeks. Anthropometric measurements of body weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), hip circumference(HC), WHR (ratio of WC/HC), triceps skinfold thickness (TSF), subscapular skinfold thickness (SSF), body fat weight, body fat percentage, total fat area, visceral and subcutaneous fat area in abdominal and concentration of blood triglycerides (TG) were measured at the initial and final time of the study. In both groups, the cutpoint of TG 2.3 mmol/L was used to distinguish the different levels of hypertriglyceridemia. Results Compared with LCT group, body weight, BMI, WC, body fat weight, total fat area, visceral and subcutaneous fat area in abdominal in those of TG≤2.3 mmol/L in MLCT group were significantly decreased (P 2.3 mmol/L between the two groups. Furthermore, the concentrations of TG in hypertriglyceridemia subjects of different levels in MLCT group were both significantly lower than those in LCT group after 8 weeks (P 2.3mmol/L.

Chemoradiotherapy is an important part in the adjuvant regimen for locally advanced gastric cancer after radical resection. Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy has demonstrated a clear local control and survival advantage for locally advanced patients with less than D2 lymph node dissection. Thus, chemoradiotherapy is recommended as standard of care in the postoperative setting. However, the role of radiotherapy for patients with more extensive D2 lymph node dissections remains controversial. Three phase III random-ized clinical trials in Asia show that adjuvant chemoradiotherapy after D2 dissection is safe and feasible and may benefit certain groups of patients. The benefit of radiotherapy in the case of more extensive surgery still warrants well-designed, fully powered randomized controlled clinical trials for verification. More studies are needed to focus on the identification of patient subgroups that are at high risk for locoregional failure and may benefit from adjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Further optimization of target volume in the radiother-apy and exploration of new modalities of radiation techniques are also necessary.

Pesticide played an important role in agriculture. With the increase of pesticides in recent years,they have easily gone into the aquatic environment through some ways such as rain or surface water. The residual pesticide in the water may destroy the aquatic ecosystems,do harm to the aquatic organisms and human health,now more and more attention has been paid to the situation of the pesticide pollution in the aquatic environment. This present paper introduced the type of common pesticide residues in the water in China, it also described the pesticide pollution situation in rivers,groundwater,marine and other water as well as the potential impact of pesticide on the aquatic organisms and human health,in order to provide a basis for China to carry out relative research.

Objective:To study the eExecutive fFunctions Characteristics of Cchildren with Aattention dDeficit hHyperactivity Ddisorder in Cclock Ddrawing Ttest. Methods: 60 ADHD children and 60 normal children awere tested by CDT. Then analyze the data to detect the difference of Executive Functions of two growps. Results:ADHD group geot significant lower scores than control group on both time total score (data) and clock face structure score. (3.23?1.40/4.15?0.78,11.2?1.48/11.90?0.76,t=7.742、5.073,P0.05). Conclusions: the lower score in CDT showed that ADHD child have some weaknesses in planning , in attention regulating and in working memory. The core of these weaknesses is failing of execute function.

Objective: To investigate the role of EMT (epithelial-mesenchymal transition) and IGF- 1R (insulin-like growth factor I receptor) in acquired resistance to EGFR-TKIs (epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors) in NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer). Methods: The EGFR mutant human lung adenocarcinoma PC-9 cell line and the EGFR wild-type H460 cell line were used to generate gefitinib-resistant PC-9 cells (named as PC-9/ZD cells) and erlotinib-resistant cells (named as H460/ER cells), respectively. MTT assay was used to measure the cell proliferation of PC9, PC-9/ZD, H460 and H460/ER cells. Wound-healing assay and Transwell assay were used to determine the migration and invasion capabilities of the cells. The protein and mRNA expressions of E-cadherin, vimentin, EGFR, ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase), AKT (protein kinase B) and IGF-1R were determined by Western blotting and RT-PCR (reverse transcription PCR), respectively. Results: Both PC-9/ZD and H460/ER cells acquired resistance to EGFR-TKIs which was to say that the sensitivities to gefitinib and erlotinib in PC-9/ ZD and H460/ER cells were significantly decreased, respectively (P < 0.05). Compared with PC-9 and H460 cells, the PC-9/ZD and H460/ER cells displayed mesenchymal phenotypes, and their capabilities of invasion and migration were enhanced (P < 0.05). The expression of mesenchymal cell marker vimentin was increased in both PC-9/ZD and H460/ER cells (P < 0.05), and the expression of E-cadherin was decreased in PC-9/ZD cells (P < 0.05). The expressions of IGF-1R and its phosphorylated form in both PC-9/ZD and H460/ER cells were significantly increased (P < 0.05) as compared with those in the PC-9 and H460 cells, accompanied by up-regulation of phosphorylation levels of AKT and ERK (P < 0.05). No significant difference was found in phosphorylation level of EGFR between PC-9 and PC-9/ZD cells (P < 0.05), while the phosphorylation level of EGFR was significantly decreased in H460/ER cells as compared with that in H460 cells (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The EMT in EGFR mutant gefitinib-resistant PC-9/ZD cells and the EGFR wild-type erlotinib-resistant H460/ER cells was accompanied by a increase in protein expression of IGF-1R, which suggests EMT and IGF-1R signal transduction may play an important role in acquired resistance to EGFR-TKIs in NSCLC cells. Copyright © 2013 by TUMOR.