The treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer has not moved much beyond single agent gemcitabine until recently when protocols such as FOLFIRINOX(fluorouracil,leucovorin,irinotecan and oxaliplatin)and nab-paclitaxelgemc...
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The treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer has not moved much beyond single agent gemcitabine until recently when protocols such as FOLFIRINOX(fluorouracil,leucovorin,irinotecan and oxaliplatin)and nab-paclitaxelgemcitabine have demonstrated some improved *** in technology especially in massively parallel genome sequencing has progressed our understanding of the biology of pancreatic cancer especially the candidate signalling pathways that are involved in tumourogenesis and disease *** has allowed identification of potentially actionable mutations that may be targeted by new biological *** heterogeneity of pancreatic cancer makes tumour tissue collection important with the aim of being able to personalise therapies for the individual as opposed to a one size fits all approach to treatment of the *** paper reviews the developments in this area of translational research and the ongoing clinical studies that will attempt to move this into the everyday oncology practice.
Emerging contaminants have commonly been observed in environmental waters but have not been included in water quality assessments at many locations around the *** evaluate the availability of reclaimed water in Kinmen...
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Emerging contaminants have commonly been observed in environmental waters but have not been included in water quality assessments at many locations around the *** evaluate the availability of reclaimed water in Kinmen,Taiwan,this study provides the first survey of the distribution of thirty-three pharmaceuticals and five perfluorinated chemicals in lake waters and water from local wastewater treatment plants(WWTPs).The results showed that the target emerging contaminants in Kinmen lakes were at trace ng/L *** addition,most of the target compounds were present in the Jincheng and Taihu WWTP influents at ng/L concentrations levels,of which 5 compounds(erythromycin-H2O(1340 ng/L),ibuprofen(1763 ng/L),atenolol(1634 ng/L),acetaminophen(2143 ng/L),and caffeine(3113 ng/L))reached mg/L *** overall treatment efficiencies of the Jincheng and Taihu WWTPs with respect to these pharmaceuticals and perfluorinated chemicals were poor;half of the compounds were less than 50%*** compounds(sulfamethoxazole,erythromycin-H2O,clarithromycin,ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin)with risk quotient(RQ)values>1 in the effluent should be further investigated to understand their effects on the aquatic *** and advanced treatment units are found necessary to provide high-quality recycled water and sustainable water resources.
Background:Crowdsourcing is used increasingly in health and medical *** is the process of aggregating crowd wisdom to solve a *** purpose of this systematic review is to summarize quantitative evidence on crowdsourcin...
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Background:Crowdsourcing is used increasingly in health and medical *** is the process of aggregating crowd wisdom to solve a *** purpose of this systematic review is to summarize quantitative evidence on crowdsourcing to improve ***:We followed Cochrane systematic review guidance and systematically searched seven databases up to September 4th *** were included if they reported on crowdsourcing and related to health or *** were excluded if recruitment was the only use of *** determined the level of evidence associated with review findings using the GRADE ***:We screened 3508 citations,accessed 362 articles,and included 188 ***-six studies examined effectiveness,127 examined feasibility,and 37 examined *** most common purposes were to evaluate surgical skills(17 studies),to create sexual health messages(seven studies),and to provide layperson cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR)out-of-hospital(six studies).Seventeen observational studies used crowdsourcing to evaluate surgical skills,finding that crowdsourcing evaluation was as effective as expert evaluation(low quality).Four studies used a challenge contest to solicit human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)testing promotion materials and increase HIV testing rates(moderate quality),and two of the four studies found this approach saved *** studies suggested that an interactive technology system increased rates of layperson initiated CPR out-ofhospital(moderate quality).However,studies analyzing crowdsourcing to evaluate surgical skills and laypersoninitiated CPR were only from high-income *** studies examined crowdsourcing to inform artificial intelligence projects,most often related to annotation of medical *** was evaluated using different outcomes,limiting the extent to which studies could be ***:Crowdsourcing has been used to improve health in many *** crowds
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