In the result of study, for patients with breast cancer, survival following bone metastasis is affected by secondary prognostic factors such as disease-free interval and extent of metastasis besides primary prognostic factors related to the primary tumor.

In this study, tropisetron did not show any ventricular and atrial arrhythmogenic effect because of repolarization abnormalities. Only it may cause a slight decrease in heart rate.

FIF allowed more homogeneous dose distribution in the PTV and reduced the doses received by OAR. Considering the lower maximum doses in the OAR and PTV, FIF technique seems to be more advantageous than CRT during adjuvant radiotherapy for early stage endometrial cancer patients.

Hepatitis B reactivation due to chemotherapy is a cause of serious morbidity and mortality in some of the patients with cancer. In this study, we retrospectively assessed the prevalence of hepatitis B reactivation among the patients undergoing cytotoxic chemotherapy. We investigated efficacy of lamivudine prophylaxis against hepatitis B reactivation as well.

Osteopontin is a ligand for the integrin proteins, which are cell surface receptors that mediate the physical and functional interactions between a cell and the extracellular matrix. The expression of osteopontin is reportedly increased in a number of transformed cell lines and tumor tissues. Furthermore, increased expression of osteopontin results in some infiltrative features of tumors. The aim of the study is to demonstrate that expression of osteopontin in human astrocytomas correlates with histological tumor grade. The expression of osteopontin in human astrocytomas was determined with immunohistochemistry. Median osteopontin expression levels were 1%, 7.5%, 60%, and 50% in grade I, II, III, and IV tumors, respectively. Osteopontin staining was significantly higher in high grade (grade III-IV) than low grade (grade I-II) tumors. These findings indicate that osteopontin immunoreactivity in human astrocytomas may correlate with the grade of a tumor.