Lung cancer remains the most common cause of cancer-related mortality in Scotland,
accounting for 28.9% of all cancer deaths in 2007.1 Current guidelines recommend …

Abstract The tetrazolium dye, 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide
(MTT), is reduced by live but not dead cells, and this reaction is used as the end point in a …

The frequency selectivity of the auditory system was measured by masking a sinusoidal
signal (0.5, 2.0, or 4.0 kHz) or a filtered‐speech signal with a wideband noise having a …

Objectives: The non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) meta-analysis suggested a survival
benefit for cisplatin-based chemotherapy when given in addition to surgery, radical …

The relationship between the magnitude of systemic inflammatory response and the
nutritional/functional parameters in patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer were …

Given that lung cancer is one of the common cancers world-wide, the implications of
focusing on quality of life as well as survival require to be understood. We have carried out a …

Three hundred patients with symptomatic, locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC not
requiring immediate radiotherapy were enrolled into this randomized multicentre trial …

Background: In 1995 a meta-analysis of randomised trials investigating the value of adding
chemotherapy to primary treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suggested a …

Markers of the inflammatory response, interleukin 6, C-reactive protein, albumin and full
blood count, were measured in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients (n= 21) with …

BACKGROUND Functional disability is reported frequently in fatigued cancer patients, but
little is known about the correlation between fatigue and objective physical function. In …