National Cancer Institute

The epidemiology initiative, Children’s Healthy Living program, spans twelve jurisdictions. In the Nutrition Support Shared Resource at the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, I conduct nutrition assessment on indigenous children ages two through eight afflicted by an alarmingly high incidence of obesity and metabolic syndrome. The depressing health disparity leaves some participants with diabetes before fourth…

Upon development, the nervous system wires itself completely – an impressive feat considering the millions of connections and neurons in the body. However perhaps even more impressive is the ability of the nervous system to restore neuronal connections after injury. This is particularly advanced in frogs, fish and invertebrates as once an axon is cut in the central nervous system, the regeneration allows full functional recovery whereas in the mammalian central nervous system full recovery is…

However, they are also of interest in cancer as they have been shown to affect its many aspects (Pich et al., 2013). The mechanism that underpins the effectiveness of statins for hypercholesterolemia is the inhibition of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, an enzyme that…

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1. What is the most likely diagnosis of the underlying disease in this patient (5 marks)? Follicular Lymphoma. 2. Describe the process of autologous transplantation for the treatment of this patient’s disease. (5 marks). Stem cells are removed from patient and stored in a freezer. Patient will then receive high dose chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy to get rid of circulating tumor cells in the blood. The removed stem cells are transfused, replacing the destroyed tissue and…

Imagine being completely capable of doing everything you love then one day having it all taken away the next day. Girish Gogia loved his designing job and loved to deep sea dive. All in one day he became 90% paralyzed after a deep sea diving accident. His condition has no cure and his chances of survival are slim, which made him very devastated. After months of surviving, he realized there was a reason that he was still alive, he just did not know why yet. Girish went to his doctor and said…

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People go through a lot of unnecessary pain, both physical and emotional due to illnesses. This pain could be greatly reduced by the use of one phenomenon: preventive healthcare. Preventive testing and screening is beneficial to everyone in today’s society because it allows professionals to catch and treat diseases before any symptoms are experienced. Preventive care is an important form of healthcare that is not being utilized by the vast majority of the population (“Preventive Health Care.”…

Overall survival Mean overall survival (OS) was 13.8 years (median was not reached) with 96% at 3 years, 93% at 5 years, 83% at 10 years and 64% at 15 years after RT. For low-grade meningioma survival rate was 97% at 3 years, 94% at 5 years, 85% at 10 years and 65% at 15 years, for atypical meningioma 91% at 3 years, 86% at 5 years, 62% at 10 years and 50% at 15 years. As expected OS is significantly better for low-grade meningioma (p=.034, Figure 1). Stratified by histology, we compared groups…

The identification of genes causing non-syndromic hearing impairment (ARNSHL) [http://dnalab-www.uia.ac.be/dnalab/hhh/] has partially resolved the puzzle of clinical and genetic heterogeneity of deafness (1). Among these genes the gene with the most significant impact on the population genetics and genetic counselling is the GJB2 (connexin-26) gene with the mutation c.35delG that accounts for the majority of mutations in deaf Caucasians (2, 3). Studies published so far have reported the…