Background: In medical education, teaching methods offering intensive practice without high utilization of faculty resources are needed. We investigated whether simulated patients’ (SPs’) satisfaction with a consultation could predict professional observers’ assessment of young doctors’ communication skills. <p>Methods: This was a comparative cross-sectional study of 62 videotaped consultations ...

<p>Tumours are highly complex tissues comprised of both malignant tumour cells and non-malignant healthy cells. Cells and tissues surrounding solid tumours make out the stroma, which provide physical support to the growing tumour structures, in addition to provide nutrients and facilitate waste removal. In the last four decades, it has become increasingly evident that stromal cells play important ...

Insidensen av livmorhalskreft i regionen er blant verdens høyeste. Kontinentet er hardt rammet av HIV/AIDS, og da denne sykdommen medfører smitte av andre og flere typer onkogene HPV, samt raskere progresjon av dysplasi, vanskeliggjør dette arbeidet med å få ned nye krefttilfeller. Videre viser studier generelt manglende kunnskap om livmorhalskreft i befolkningen, også blant velutdannende og urbane ...

Antibiotics are the cornerstone for modern medicine, and their introduction into clinical use has made common medical procedures such as surgeries and cancer chemotherapy possible. The consequences of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), if it continues to rise on a global scale at its current speed, are expected to be staggering. It is well-known that antibiotics drive the evolution and spread of AMR, ...

Objectives. The general aim was to assess cancer incidence and mortality among the general population of Chukotka in 1997 2010 and to compare it with the population of Russia. Methods. Cancer data were abstracted from the annual statistical reports of the P.A. Hertzen Research Institute of Oncology in Moscow. The annual number and percent of cases, crude and age-standardized cancer incidence ...

Little is known about how people living in the aftermath of cancer treatment experience and manage worries about possible signs of cancer relapse, not as an individual enterprise but as socially embedded management. One-year ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in a coastal village of under 3000 inhabitants in northern Norway. Ten villagers who had undergone cancer treatment from six months to five ...

American Association for Cancer Research was founded in 1907 by a group of 11 physicians and scientists interested in cancer research in the Washington, DC. Today, the AACR is the largest professional organization in the world with a membership of 37 000 researchers from 108 countries. This year, AAR Annual Meeting was organized from the 1th to 5th of April in the birthplace of the organization. I ...

Background: Radiotherapy causes oral mucositis (OM) that is painful and disrupts eating, talking, social activities and general health. OM may even interrupt cancer therapy. Any intervention that can reduce OM will lead to improvement in treatment and quality of life for patients. It is essential to have a suitable tool to measure potentially effective and new treatments against OM. Objective: To ...

Accumulating evidence supports the notion that high-dose (>5 Gy) radiotherapy (RT) regimens are triggering stronger pro-immunogenic effects than standard low-dose (2 Gy) regimens. However, the effects of RT on certain immunoregulatory elements in tumors remain unexplored. In this study, we have investigated the effects of high-dose radiotherapy (HD-RT) on the immunomodulating functions of cancer-associated ...

Approaching the presence of cancer in everyday life in terms of mythologies, the article examines what cancer is and how cancer-related potentialities are enacted and embodied in the context of contemporary regimes of anticipation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a suburban Danish middle-class community among people who were not immediately afflicted by cancer, we describe different and ...