The Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI: 2) is a generic multiattribute, preference-based
system for assessing health-related quality of life. Health Utilities Index Mark 2 consists of two …

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) Consortium
Protocol 91-01 was designed to improve the outcome of children with newly diagnosed ALL …

This paper reviews the Health Utilities Index (HUI? systems as means to describe health status
and obtain utility scores reflecting health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The HUI Mark 2 (…

Background Doxorubicin chemotherapy is very effective in children with acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (ALL) but also injures myocardial cells. Dexrazoxane, a free-radical scavenger, …

One explanation for the relative lack of progress in treating cancer in adolescents and young
adults is that the biology of malignant diseases in this age group is different than in younger …

The crying pattern of normal infants in industrialized societies is characterized by an overall
increase until 6 weeks of age followed by a decline until 4 months of age with a …

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there is an age-specific incidence of hospitalized cases
of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) that has similar properties to the previously reported “…

Prenatal maternal stress has been shown to impair functioning in nonhuman primate
offspring. Little is known about the effects of prenatal stress on intellectual and language …

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) includes many subtypes with widely varying
clinical behaviors, ranging from indolent to aggressive tumors with significant metastatic …

Microcystic adnexal carcinoma is an unusual locally aggressive neoplasm that is important
to recognize since it may be confused with benign adnexal neoplasms, particularly …