Relationships of nosological form of the primary and second neoplasms in oncological patients

ЗЛОКАЧЕСТВЕННЫЕ НОВООБРАЗОВАНИЯНОЗОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ФОРМЫ РАКАЗАБОЛЕВАЕМОСТЬ, ЧАСТОТА СЛУЧАЕВУКРАИНАЦель. Исследование зависимости между нозологическими формами первых и вторых раков у пациентов, которые проходили специальное лечение по поводу онкологического заболевания и у которых возникли вторые раки через 3 года и более после окончания лечения. Материал и методы. В исследовании проводилось сравнение между нозологической структурой вторых раков, которые возникли у 203 пациентов, проходивших лечение по поводу онкологической патологии, и официальными данными об удельном весе 10 основных нозологических форм злокачественных новообразований населения Украины. Статистическая значимость полученных результатов оценивалась с помощью доверительных интервалов, нормированных с учетом специфики контингента пациентов клиники, где проводилось исследование. Результаты. В соответствии с удельным весом нозологических форм первых раков, обусловленных, в первую очередь, специализацией клиники, обследуемые группы пациентов были разделены на 5 нозологических подгрупп: пациенты с раком молочной железы, щитовидной железы, тела матки, шейки матки, рак яичников и с иными формами рака. Для каждой из подгрупп была исследована нозологическая структура вторых раков и сопоставлена с общей структурой злокачественных новообразований по данным официальной статистики. Показано, что частота пяти выделенных нозологических форм, рассчитанных для клиники, достаточно хорошо соответствует популяционному среднему, при этом для двух наиболее представительных нозологических форм соответствие находится в пределах ожидаемой стохастической изменчивости. Таким образом, показано, что не существует статистически значимых различий между процентным составом 10 основных нозологических форм рака населения Украины и структурой нозологических форм вторых раков у исследуемой группы пациентов. Заключение. Нозологическая форма вторых раков не является следствием первого рака, а воспроизводит общую нозологическую структуру заболеваемости злокачественными новообразованиями.Objective. To investigate the relationship between nosological forms of the primary and second neoplasms in patients who have undergone special treatment for cancer, and who have developed second neoplasms three and more years after the end of treatment. Methods. The study has compared the nosological structure of second neoplasms that developed in 203 patients undergoing treatment for oncological pathology with the official data on the specific weight of 10 major nosological forms of malignant neoplasms in Ukraine. The statistical significance of the obtained results has been estimated using confidence intervals normalized taking into account the specificity of the patients of the clinic where the study was conducted. Results. In accordance with the specific weight of the nosological forms of the primary neoplasms, conditioned first by the specialization of the clinic, the study groups were divided into 5 nosological subgroups: patients with breast, thyroid, uterine, cervical, ovarian, and subgroup with other forms of cancer. For each of the subgroups, the nosological structure of the second neoplasms was investigated and compared with the overall structure of malignant neoplasms according to the official statistics. It is shown that the frequencies of five allocated nosological forms calculated for the clinic correspond fairly well to the population mean, while for two most representative nosological forms the correspondence is within the expected stochastic variability. Thus, it has been demonstrated that there are no statistically significant differences between the percentage composition of 10 major nosological forms of cancer in Ukraine and the structure of nosological forms of second neoplasms in the study group of patients. Conclusions. The nosological form of second neoplasms is not a consequence of the primary cancer, but reproduces the overall nosological structure of the incidence of malignant neoplasms

O(1/N_f) Corrections to the Thirring Model in 2<d<4

The Thirring model, that is, a relativistic field theory of fermions with a contact interaction between vector currents, is studied for dimensionalities 2<d<4 using the 1/N_f expansion, where N_f is the number of fermion species. The model is found to have no ultraviolet divergences at leading order provided a regularization respecting current conservation is used. Explicit O(1/N_f) corrections are computed, and the model shown to be renormalizable at this order in the massless limit; renormalizability appears to hold to all orders due to a special case of Weinberg's theorem. This implies there is a universal amplitude for four particle scattering in the asymptotic regime. Comparisons are made with both the Gross-Neveu model and QED.Comment: 22 pages in plain TeX, with 7 figs included using psfig.tex (Minor conceptual changes - algebra unaffected

Ultrafast nonlocal control of spontaneous emission

Solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics systems will form scalable nodes of future quantum networks, allowing the storage, processing and retrieval of quantum bits, where a real-time control of the radiative interaction in the cavity is required to achieve high efficiency. We demonstrate here the dynamic molding of the vacuum field in a coupled-cavity system to achieve the ultrafast nonlocal modulation of spontaneous emission of quantum dots in photonic crystal cavities, on a timescale of ~200 ps, much faster than their natural radiative lifetimes. This opens the way to the ultrafast control of semiconductor-based cavity quantum electrodynamics systems for application in quantum interfaces and to a new class of ultrafast lasers based on nano-photonic cavities.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure

High frequency ESR investigation on dynamical charge disproportionation and spin gap excitation in NaV_2O_5

A significant frequency dependence of the ESR line width is found in NaV_2O_5 between 34-100 K and the line width increases as the resonance frequency is increased from 95 GHz to 760 GHz. The observed frequency dependence is qualitatively explained in terms of the dynamical charge disproportionation. The present results show the essential role of the internal charge degree of freedom in a V-O-V bond. We have also proposed the existence of the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction in the low temperature charge ordered phase considering the breaking of the selection rule of ESR realized as the direct observation of the spin gap excitation.Comment: 9 figures submitted to J. Phys.Soc. Jp

Enhancement of the Thermal Conductivity in gapped Quantum Spin Chains

We study mechanism of magnetic energy transport, motivated by recent measurements of the thermal conductivity in low dimensional quantum magnets. We point out a possible mechanism of enhancement of the thermal conductivity in gapped magnetic system, where the magnetic energy transport plays a crucial role. This mechanism gives an interpretation for the recent experiment of CuGeO_3, where the thermal conductivity depends on the crystal direction.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

Strong damping of phononic heat current by magnetic excitations in SrCu_2(BO_3)_2

Measurements of the thermal conductivity as a function of temperature and magnetic field in the 2D dimer spin system SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ are presented. In zero magnetic field the thermal conductivity along and perpendicular to the magnetic planes shows a pronounced double-peak structure as a function of temperature. The low-temperature maximum is drastically suppressed with increasing magnetic field. Our quantitative analysis reveals that the heat current is due to phonons and that the double-peak structure arises from pronounced resonant scattering of phonons by magnetic excitations.Comment: a bit more than 4 pages, 2 figures included; minor changes to improve the clarity of the presentatio

Heavy-Mass Behavior of Ordered Perovskites ACu3Ru4O12 (A = Na, Ca, La)

We synthesized ACu3Ru4O12 (A = Na, Na0.5Ca0.5, Ca, Ca0.5La0.5, La) and measured their DC magnetization, AC susceptibility, specific heat, and resistivity, in order to investigate the effects of the hetero-valent substitution. A broad peak in the DC magnetization around 200 K was observed only in CaCu3Ru4O12, suggesting the Kondo effect due to localized Cu2+ ions. However, the electronic specific heat coefficients exhibit large values not only for CaCu3Ru4O12 but also for all the other samples. Moreover, the Wilson ratio and the Kadowaki-Woods ratio of our samples are all similar to the values of other heavy-fermion compounds. These results question the Kondo effect as the dominant origin of the mass enhancement, and rather indicate the importance of correlations among itinerant Ru electrons.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jp

Theory of Two-Dimensional Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnets with a Nearly Critical Ground State

We present the general theory of clean, two-dimensional, quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets which are close to the zero-temperature quantum transition between ground states with and without long-range N\'{e}el order. For N\'{e}el-ordered states, `nearly-critical' means that the ground state spin-stiffness, $\rho_s$, satisfies $\rho_s \ll J$, where $J$ is the nearest-neighbor exchange constant, while `nearly-critical' quantum-disordered ground states have a energy-gap, $\Delta$, towards excitations with spin-1, which satisfies $\Delta \ll J$. Under these circumstances, we show that the wavevector/frequency-dependent uniform and staggered spin susceptibilities, and the specific heat, are completely universal functions of just three thermodynamic parameters. Explicit results for the universal scaling functions are obtained by a $1/N$ expansion on the $O(N)$ quantum non-linear sigma model, and by Monte Carlo simulations. These calculations lead to a variety of testable predictions for neutron scattering, NMR, and magnetization measurements. Our results are in good agreement with a number of numerical simulations and experiments on undoped and lightly-doped $La_{2-\delta} Sr_{\delta}Cu O_4$.Comment: 81 pages, REVTEX 3.0, smaller updated version, YCTP-xxx