Pembrolizumab Therapy Leading to Complete Remission for Recurrence of Pulmonary Metastases after their Resection and Radical Cystectomy following Gemcitabine and Cisplatin Therapy by Kyohei Ishida, Go Hasegawa, Takehisa Hashimoto, Yohei Ikeda, Noboru Hara, Tsutomu Nishiyama

“…He underwent lung metastasectomy and radical cystoprostatectomy, with not only primary lesions but also metastatic lesions showing a complete response. …”
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Cystatin C as a predictor of acute renal damage after radical surgical treatment in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer by A. I. Tarasenko, V. N. Pavlov, I. R. Kabirov, A. V. Alekseev, M. F. Urmantsev

“…To assess the clinical and prognostic significance of serum and urinary cystatin C (uCys-C and sCys-C) in patients undergoing radical cystectomy (RC) in relation to AKI.Patients and methods. …”
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Risk factors for lymphatic leakage following radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer by Zixuan Xue, Ye Yan, Huiying Chen, Hai Mao, Tianwu Ma, Guoliang Wang, Hongxian Zhang, Lulin Ma, Jianfei Ye, Kai Hong, Fan Zhang, Shudong Zhang

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The Effect of a Combined Modified Pectoral and Stellate Ganglion Block on Stress and Inflammatory Response in Patients Undergoing Modified Radical Mastectomy by Jun Geng, Jing Wang, Yaowen Zhang, Wenxiang Song, Junjia Zhu, Jianqing Chen, Zhen Wu

“…We evaluated whether a combination of a pectoral nerve block (PNB) and stellate ganglion block (SGB) is more effective than a PNB alone in reducing these responses in women undergoing modified radical mastectomy (MRM). Methods. This is a prospective randomized controlled trial. …”
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Molecular dynamics-guided reaction discovery reveals endoperoxide-to-alkoxy radical isomerization as key branching point in α-pinene ozonolysis by Huan Yang, Umberto Raucci, Siddharth Iyer, Galib Hasan, Thomas Golin Almeida, Shawon Barua, Anni Savolainen, Juha Kangasluoma, Matti Rissanen, Hanna Vehkamäki, Theo Kurtén

“…In particular, we unveil a key branching point that leads to the rapid formation of alkoxy radicals, whose high and diverse reactivity help to explain hitherto unexplained oxidation pathways suggested by mass spectral peaks observed in α-pinene ozonolysis experiments. …”
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Metastatic Small Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder That Recurred in the Vagina 6 Years after Radical Cystectomy: A Case Report by Makoto Isono, Keiichi Ito, Shinsuke Hamada, Masahiro Takahashi, Hidenori Sasa, Hideyuki Shimazaki, Tomohiko Asano

“…Herein, we report a patient with recurrent SCC of the urinary bladder who experienced an unusually long-term disease-free duration after radical cystectomy. The patient was a 60-year-old woman who had undergone transurethral resection followed by radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (high-grade urothelial carcinoma with adenocarcinomatous differentiation) 6 years prior; the surgical specimen had a negative surgical margin. …”
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Genetic and biochemical characterization of a radical SAM enzyme required for post-translational glutamine methylation of methyl-coenzyme M reductase by Roy J. Rodriguez Carrero, Cody T. Lloyd, Janhavi Borkar, Shounak Nath, Liviu M. Mirica, Satish Nair, Squire J. Booker, William Metcalf

“…In vitro data show that a B12-dependent radical SAM (rSAM) enzyme, designated MgmA, is responsible for this post-translational modification (PTM). …”
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Anesthesia for Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: A Comparison between Combined Spinal Epidural Anesthesia and Combined General Epidural Anesthesia by O. Kofler, S. Prueckner, E. Weninger, R. Tomasi, A. Karl, S. Niedermayer, A. Jovanovic, H. H. Müller, C. Stief, B. Zwissler, V. von Dossow

“…All patients underwent open radical retropubic prostatectomy from 01/2008 to 08/2011 and met the study criteria. …”
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Clinicopathological Features of 166 Cases of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma and Effect of Primary Tumor Location on Prognosis after Modified Radical Mastectomy by Shiman Chen, Liang Yang, Yaqiong Li

“…To investigate the clinicopathological features of 166 cases of invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) of the breast and to analyze the effect of the location of the primary tumor on the prognosis of modified radical mastectomy. Materials and Methods. The clinical data of 166 patients with IDC who underwent modified radical mastectomy in our hospital from May 2015 to May 2017 were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Correlation between Preoperative Platelet Count/(Lymphocyte Count × Prealbumin Count) Ratio and the Prognosis of Patients with Gastric Cancer Undergoing Radical Operation by Yi Liu, Yanguang Yang, Guomei Tai, Feng Ni, Cenming Yu, Wenjing Zhao, Ding Wang

“…The clinical data of 238 patients receiving radical operations for gastric cancer were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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The preoperative neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio is not a marker of prostate cancer characteristics but is an independent predictor of biochemical recurrence in patients receiving radical prostatectomy by Zhi Cao, Jin Ji, Chao Zhang, Fubo Wang, Huan Xu, Yongwei Yu, Yinghao Sun

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Asymmetric Three-Component Radical Cascade Reactions Enabled by Synergistic Photoredox/Brønsted Acid Catalysis: Access to α‑Amino Acid Derivatives by Chao Che, Yi-Nan Lu, Ting Fang, Guang-Jin Zhen, Xiaotian Qi, Chun-Jiang Wang

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Bioactive Molecules from the Invasive Blue Crab <i>Callinectes sapidus</i> Exoskeleton: Evaluation of Reducing, Radical Scavenging, and Antitumor Activities by Francesco Longo, Alessandro Attanzio, Laura Marretta, Claudio Luparello, Serena Indelicato, David Bongiorno, Giampaolo Barone, Luisa Tesoriere, Ilenia Concetta Giardina, Giulia Abruscato, Manuela Perlotti, Lucie Branwen Hornsby, Vincenzo Arizza, Mirella Vazzana, Aiti Vizzini, Chiara Martino, Angelica Listro, Vinicius Queiroz, Antonio Fabbrizio, Paolo Salvatore Francesco Ciaccio, Stella Maria Cascioferro, Francesca Di Gaudio, Manuela Mauro

“…These biomolecules were evaluated for their reducing, radical scavenging, and antitumor activity. The ferric ion reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and the free radical scavenging activity against radical 2,2-Diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) were significantly higher for chitosan (3.16 ± 0.10 mg AAE/g and 8.1 ± 0.10 µmol TE/g). …”
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Characterisation of environmentally persistent free radicals and their contributions to oxidative potential and reactive oxygen species in sea spray and size-resolved ambient particles by Xinji Zhang, Fanyi Wei, Haiyan Fu, Huibin Guo

“…The interaction between sea spray and water mainly generated hydroxyl free radicals (54 ± 3%), whereas the size-resolved PM mainly generated organic free radicals (64 ± 5%). …”
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Degradation of Toxic Dye Using Phytomediated Copper Nanoparticles and Its Free-Radical Scavenging Potential and Antimicrobial Activity against Environmental Pathogens by S. Rajeshkumar, M. Vanaja, Arunachalam Kalirajan

“…The antioxidant activity showed the excellent reduction of DPPH free radicals by nanoparticles. These results confirmed that copper nanoparticles serve as an alternative therapeutic agent over conventional drugs. …”
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Impact of Centralisation of Radical Prostatectomy Driven by the Introduction of Robotic Systems on Positive Surgical Margin and Biochemical Recurrence in pT2 Prostate Cancer by Ibrahim Ibrahim, Omar Kouli, Sanjana Ilangovan, Melanie Sneddon, Sarika Nalagatla, Carol Marshall, Lorenzo Dutto, Hing Y. Leung, Imran Ahmad

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Long-Term (10-Year) Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary Toxicity after Treatment with External Beam Radiotherapy, Radical Prostatectomy, or Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer by Grant K. Hunter, Chandana A. Reddy, Eric A. Klein, Patrick Kupelian, Kenneth Angermeier, James Ulchaker, Nabil Chehade, Andrew Altman, Jay P. Ciezki

“…Objective.To examine gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) toxicity profiles of patients treated in 1999 with external beam radiotherapy (RT), prostate interstitial brachytherapy (PI) or radical prostatectomy (RP). Methods. TThe records of 525 patients treated in 1999 were reviewed to evaluate toxicity. …”
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Synthesis of Well-Defined Three-Arm Star-Branched Polystyrene through Arm-First Coupling Approach by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization by Syed Shahabuddin, Fatem Hamime Ismail, Sharifah Mohamad, Norazilawati Muhamad Sarih

“…Here we describe a simple route to synthesize three-arm star-branched polystyrene. Atom transfer radical polymerization technique has been utilized to yield branched polystyrene involving Williamson coupling strategy. …”
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Dorsal venous complex ligation‐free and parietal endopelvic fascia preserving in laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: A prospective study of single centre by Zhong‐Hua Yang, Yong‐Zhi Wang, Tao Liu, Hang Zheng, Xing‐Huan Wang

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