Background Platinum-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy is the standard of care for patients
with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Additional gemcitabine and …

Background The effect of the addition of adjuvant chemotherapy to concurrent chemoradiotherapy
in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma is unclear. We aimed to …

Vascular calcification (VC), which is closely associated with significant mortality in cardiovascular
disease, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and/or diabetes mellitus, is characterized by …

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of β-glucan supplementation
on pig performance and immune function. In Exp. 1, 100 weaned pigs (8.65 ± 0.42 kg of BW …

Importance Concurrent chemoradiotherapy has been the standard treatment for stage II
nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) based on data using 2-dimensional conventional …

Aim of the study Previous results from our trial showed that adjuvant cisplatin and fluorouracil
chemotherapy did not significantly improve survival after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (…

Atherosclerosis (AS), a chronic arterial disease, is characterized by endothelial dysfunction,
inflammatory reactions and lipid accumulation in parallel with aberrant angiogenesis and …

Clinical trials frequently include multiple end points that mature at different times. The initial
report, typically on the based on the primary end point, may be published when key planned …

Coal face spalling is a major issue affecting the safety of a large-cutting-height mining face,
especially in deep mining. In order to analyze failure mechanisms and propose …

This paper proposes a novel multidimensional composite periodic foundation for seismic
isolation. The composite periodic foundation achieves multidimensional attenuation by …