Initiatives that rely upon the contributions of volunteers to reach a specific goal are growing more and more with the success of Web 2.0–interactive *** scientific projects are testing and exploiting volunteers’col...
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Initiatives that rely upon the contributions of volunteers to reach a specific goal are growing more and more with the success of Web 2.0–interactive *** scientific projects are testing and exploiting volunteers’collaboration,but the quality of information obtained with this approach is often *** paper offers a rich overview of many scientific projects where geographic contributions are committed to volunteers,to the aim of defining strategies to improve information *** describing real examples of Volunteer Geographic Information(VGI),the contribution establishes a categorization based on the characteristics of the information,tasks,and scopes of the *** a discussion on the relationships of categories and VGI quality,the paper analyses techniques to improve the quality of volunteered information according to the moment of its assessment(i.e.,ex ante,ex post,or both with respect to information creation).The paper outlines the main limitations of the different approaches and indicates some guidelines for future developments.
BACKGROUND Several studies report the useful therapeutic results of regional hyperthermia in association with chemotherapy(CHT) and radiotherapy for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Modulated electrohyperthermia(mE...
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BACKGROUND Several studies report the useful therapeutic results of regional hyperthermia in association with chemotherapy(CHT) and radiotherapy for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Modulated electrohyperthermia(mEHT) is a new hyperthermia technique that induces immunogenic death or apoptosis of pancreatic cancer cells in laboratory experiments and increases tumor response rate and survival in pancreatic cancer patients, offering beneficial therapeutic effects against this severe type of *** To assess survival, tumor response and toxicity of mEHT alone or combined with CHT compared with CHT for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic *** This was a retrospective data collection on patients affected by locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer(stage Ⅲ and IV) performed in 9 Italian centers, members of International Clinical Hyperthermia Society-Italian Network. This study included 217 patients, 128(59%) of them were treated with CHT(no-mEHT) and 89(41%) patients received mEHT alone or in association with CHT. mEHT treatments were performed applying a power of 60-150 watts for 40-90 min, simultaneously or within 72 h of administration of *** Median patients’ age was 67 years(range 31-92 years). mEHT group had a median overall survival greater than non-mEHT group(20 mo, range 1.6-24, vs 9 mo, range 0.4-56.25, P < 0.001). mEHT group showed a higher number of partial responses(45% vs 24%, P = 0.0018) and a lower number of progressions(4% vs 31%, P < 0.001) than the no-mEHT group, at the three months follow-up. Adverse events were observed as mild skin burns in 2.6% of mEHT *** mEHT seems safe and has beneficial effects on survival and tumor response of stage Ⅲ-IV pancreatic tumor treatment. Further randomized studies are warranted to confirm or not these results.
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