Midwestern Section ASAS 1987 Younger Animal Scientist Award — Research Sponsor: Roche Chemical Division, Hoffman-LaRoche

1987 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 1868-1868
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (6_suppl) ◽  
pp. 445-445
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Makrakis ◽  
Leonidas Nikolaos Diamantopoulos ◽  
Vadim S Koshkin ◽  
Ajjai Shivaram Alva ◽  
Mehmet Asim Bilen ◽  
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445 Background: Different metastatic sites have variable prognostic implications in aUC. However, details on response and outcomes with ICI for particular mets is still unknown. We hypothesized that bone and liver mets would have poor response and outcomes with ICIs. Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study in patients (pts) with aUC who received ICI. We compared overall response rate (ORR) and overall survival (OS) between pts with different mets at ICI initiation. We developed 4 different models: 1) lymph node (LN) only vs other; 2) visceral mets (bone, lung, liver) vs other; 3) bone + liver mets vs bone without liver vs liver without bone vs neither and 4) 6 factor model: a. LN +/- soft tissue/locoregional recurrence b. lung +/- (a) c. bone +/- (b) d. liver +/- (c) e. central nervous system (CNS) +/- (d) and f. other. ORR and OS were compared among groups using multivariable (adjusting for ECOG PS and hemoglobin<10g/dl) logistic regression and cox regression, respectively. Results: We identified 984 pts (24 institutions); 703 and 696 were included in OS and ORR analyses, respectively. Median age at ICI start was 71 (range 32-93), 77% white race, 74% men, 67% ever smokers, 72% pure UC, 18% upper tract UC, 55% extirpative surgery. Prevalence of LN, lung, bone and liver mets at ICI start was 74%, 32%, 27% and 21%, respectively. LN-only mets had significantly higher ORR (44% vs 22%, OR 2.6, p<0.05) and longer mOS (22 vs 8 months, HR 0.5, p<0.05) vs other mets. Visceral mets had significantly lower ORR (21% vs 35%, OR 0.5, p<0.05) and shorter mOS (7 vs 17 months, HR 1.8, p<0.05) vs non-visceral mets. Pts with bone and liver mets had significantly lower ORR and shorter OS vs those with bone or liver mets, which both had significantly lower ORR and shorter OS vs those with neither and with LN +/- local recurrence (Table). Conclusions: In the context of ICI treatment, bone, liver, lung or CNS mets were associated with lower ORR and/or shorter OS, and bone and liver mets were particularly associated with low ORR and short OS. LN-only mets were associated with higher ORR and longer OS. Further work is needed to interrogate site-specific tumor-host immune interactions and identify biomarkers. Research Sponsor: None[Table: see text]


1971 ◽  
Vol 43 (13) ◽  
pp. 21A-21A
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PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 924-924
Author(s):  
CHARLES U. LOWE ◽  
DAVID B. COURSIN ◽  
FELIX P. HEALD ◽  
ROBERT KAYE ◽  
DONOUGH O'BRIEN ◽  
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WITH A note of sadness, the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics wishes to call to the attention of the membership the death of Robert Ramapatnam Williams. A noted chemist and scientist, Dr. Williams obtained world renown for his work on the isolation, identification, and synthesis of vitamin B1. He died at his home in Summit, New Jersey, in October 1965. Born in Nellore, India, February 16, 1886, of American missionary parents, he began teaching in the Philippines in 1908 and considered the Islands his second home. Williams never found time to earn a doctorate, although he attended Ottawa University (Kansas) and the University of Chicago for undergraduate and postgraduate work. He earned a B.S. in 1907 and an M.S. in 1908 and received honorary LL.D. and D.Sc. degrees from numerous universities. The story of his work with beriberi is one of the most exciting in the field of nutrition. While working in the Philippines in 1910 with the Chemical Division of the Bureau of Science, he became interested in the disease. He assisted in treating an infant dying of beriberi with brown-rice bran syrup. The child's dramatic recovery stirred the synthesis of thiamine chloride. His work culminated in extensive field trials, again in the Philippines, shortly after World War I. For this study, the Bataan peninsula was divided into two parts. In the western area the inhabitants ate plain white rice; those in the eastern area received plain white rice enriched with rice coated with vitamin B1, concentrate. Within weeks the death rate from beriberi dropped dramatically in the eastern area. It remained high in the western area until smugglers began "running in" the treated rice.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 100606
Author(s):  
Teresa Swezey ◽  
F. Hunter McGuire ◽  
Patricia Hurley ◽  
Janette Panhuis ◽  
Kathy Goldstein ◽  
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