What is intrathecal (IT) chemotherapy (chemo)?IT chemo is given to kill cancer cells in your cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). CSF is the fluid that surrounds your brain and spinal cord. IT chemo is also given to prevent cancer from spreading to your CSF from other places.What will my chemo ...
The first step in a PCR cycle is to heat the sample to 95°C. What is the purpose of heating the sample?A.To separate the two strands of DNAB.To allow the primer to anneal to the templateC.To produce the optimal temperature for Taq dna polymerase to workD.To produce the optim...
During PCR and cycle sequencing, the DNA is first denatured (the double-stranded DNA template becomes single-stranded DNA). A subsequent annealing step allows for hybridization of the oligonucleotide primer close to the sequence of interest. In the extensio...
IOT: the Internet of Tomatoes ADI is developing a sensing, processing and communications solution to optimize how tomatoes grow (and taste). It’s a deliciously powerful example of what Smart Agriculture can mean to products, people, and the future. ...
But the reality is you can’t avoid it irrespective of the preventive measures in place. The trick is to reduce it to a minimum and find the right customers to retain. You have to strike the right balance between acquiring and retaining customers to prevent the acquisition costs from outpacin...
The presented model is generic and claimed to be the first of its kind. Its applicability for different purposes is to be further tested and developed by future research. The model is tested using a case example of Cooperative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS). C-ITS is a concept that ...
basis every one, two, or three weeks. Sometimes,chemotherapyis delivered directly into the abdomen through a catheter that was placed under theskinduring surgery. This is called intraperitoneal chemotherapy. You also receive it about every three weeks, but it is a more complex treatment cycle. ...
The key to diagnosis and treatment of pain in the abdomen is to understand the different likely causes of pain in the various regions of the abdomen. Stomach pain is a word used loosely to describe abdominal pain by many people outside the medical field. In strict terms, it refers only ...
Here are some of the options your doctor will consider. You may also take other types of medicines to help prevent complications, such as to prevent infections while you’re going through treatment. CLL Treatments Chemotherapy for CLL These drugs disrupt the life cycle of cancer cells. They dam...
Persistent tumor 18F-FDG uptake after a few cycles of polychemotherapy is predictive of treatment failure in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Earlier evaluation after only one cycle of chemotherapy and quantitative analysis might increase the sensitivity of 18F-FDG PET is predicting treatment failure... G ...