Background In 2010, overweight and obesity were estimated to cause 3·4 million deaths, 3·9%
of years of life lost, and 3·8% of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) worldwide. The rise …

PURPOSE Most patients with advanced pancreas cancer experience pain and must limit
their daily activities because of tumor-related symptoms. To date, no treatment has had a …

Background: For many years, high-dose radiation therapy was the standard treatment for
patients with locally or regionally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), despite a 5-…

Background Results from phase II studies in patients with stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer
with ipsilateral mediastinal nodal metastases (N2) have shown the feasibility of resection …

Background. For patients with locally or regionally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer
radiation is the standard treatment, but survival remains poor. We therefore conducted a …

Background and Methods. MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and
prednisone) has been the standard treatment for Hodgkin's disease for almost 20 years. In a …

Purpose Adjuvant chemotherapy for resected non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is now
accepted on the basis of several randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that demonstrated …

Polyisocyanates, long studied as theoretical models for wormlike chains in dilute solution
and liquid crystals, differ from their biological helical analogs in the absence of a …

Cooperative phenomena, described by one‐dimensional statistical physical methods, are
observed between the enantiomeric characteristics of monomeric materials and the polymers …

Background Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction
of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in …