Adult Child Perceptions of Communication and Humor When the Parent Is Diagnosed with Cancer: A Suggestive Perspective from Communication Theory

This study examines the function of communication and humor in the older adult parent-adult child dyad when the parent has been diagnosed with cancer. Qualitative data of open-ended data from 46 adult children of a parent recently diagnosed with cancer revealed that discussing diagnosis and treatment procedures was perceived to be a satisfying conversation, whereas withholding information had an adverse affect. The discussion of the parents' feelings during the cancer period was a difficult and complex communicative experience. The Meta-Humorous Interaction Theory (MetaHIT) was used as a conceptual framework to understand the function of appropriate and inappropriate uses of humor in terms of cognitive, affective, and behavioral elements of humor. Humor was often used as a coping or relief function for discussing side effects of cancer treatment. This investigation underscores the importance of understanding how adult children use humorous communication to cope with the unknown conversational territory of a parent's cancer diagnosis.     

Each Medium Tells a Different Story: The Effect of Message Channel on Narrative Persuasion

Limited attention has been given to the medium of story presentation in this process of narrative persuasion. The present study (N = 243) fills this gap by directly comparing narrative involvement across print and audiovisual versions of the same cervical cancer-related story. The mediation analysis revealed that exposure to an audiovisual narrative was associated with higher levels of cognitive and emotional involvement than exposure to the exact same narrative in its printed form. Yet the higher levels of transportation in the audiovisual condition came at a price of enhancing psychological reactance, eliminating the relative advantage of the film narrative.     

Anonymity and Interaction in an Online Breast Cancer Social Support Group

Despite the benefits of using online social support groups, prior research does not provide a solid understanding of the online factors related to an individual’s supportive interaction. Accordingly, this study aims to explore how various aspects of anonymity predict different levels of social support engagement. The current study uncovers that visually identifiable group members are more likely to get supportive responses than are visually anonymous members. Also, when support group members are visually and discursively identifiable, they are more likely to get supportive messages than those who are visually and discursively anonymous. Additionally, the more identifiable support group members are, the more they receive positive messages. Practical implications for the role of social support group members’ anonymity/identifiability on the overall social support process are presented.     

Science Letters： Vascular architecture： is it a helpful histopathological biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma？

Hepatocellular carcinoma （HCC） remains one of the major public health problems throughout the world. Although originally associated with tumorigenic processes, liver angiogenesis has also been observed in the context of different liver inflammatory, fibrotic, and ischemic conditions. Here we investigate the fractal dimension as a quantitator of non-Euclidean two-dimensional vascular geometry in a series of paired specimens of primary HCC and surrounding non-tumoral tissue, and discuss why this parameter might provide additional information regarding cancer behavior. The application of fractal geometry to the measurement of liver vascularity and the availability of a computer-aided quantitative method can eliminate errors in visual interpretation, and make it possible to obtain closer-to-reality numerals that are compulsory for any measurement process.     

茶与人体健康：茶叶活性组分的生物医学效应和当前关注的若干问题

饮茶有益于健康的观念在我国已沿传多个世纪,并在很大程度上为全世界所接受。本文简述了茶叶的药用历史以及从中国传播到世界各地的历史进程,重点对国内外关于饮茶预防癌症、代谢综合症、心血管疾病以及神经退行性疾病等人体重要疾病的最新研究成果进行了综述。在此基础上,针对当前在动物实验和人体流行病学调查结果上存在差异的原因,特别是对茶叶中儿茶素类化合物在人体组织中生物可利用度低的问题、高剂量绿茶提取物对人体可能存在毒性等安全性问题进行了讨论。此外,还介绍了近几年在提高儿茶素类化合物生物可利用度和对癌症的预防和治疗效果上的最新进展。     

中国医学期刊的国际化之路 ——《癌症》杂志的探索

【目的】 为中国医学期刊的国际化提供借鉴。 【方法】 以《癌症》杂志为例,介绍了杂志在国际化道路上采取的一系列新举措,探索中国科技期刊特别是医学期刊的国际化之路。 【结果】 《癌症》杂志自2010年变更文种为英文出版后,通过组建国际性编委会、聘请美国编辑、主办国际性学术会议等多种举措,使杂志国际影响力不断提升,于2014年7月被SCI收录。 【结论】 在科技期刊国际化这条路上,相信没有最好的,只有最适合的。老牌的中文期刊在传承历史的前提下,也可以在国际化的道路上走得更远。     

河北省大学生弓形虫感染情况调查

目的:为了解河北省大学生弓形虫感染情况。方法:我们应用间接血凝试验(IHA)对河北北方学院1280名新生进行了弓形虫感染情况调查。结果:职业家庭同学感染率高于非职业家庭同学(P<0.05);男、女同学间感染率无显著性差异;张家口、承德、保定地区同学感染率较高;养猫狗家庭同学感染率高于无猫狗家庭同学,农村养猫狗同学感染率高于城市养猫狗同学。结论:河北省不同地区同学均有弓型虫感染,提示我们应加强饮食及个人卫生,同时应提醒广大医务人员加强对此病的认识。     

Oxidatively Damaged DNA: A Possible Antigenic Stimulus for Cancer Autoantibodies

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are cytotoxic at higher concentration resulting in cell death, mutations, chromosomal aberrations or carcinogenesis. In this study DNA was modified by singlet oxygen and superoxide anion radicals generated by illumination of riboflavin under 365 nm UV-light. The modified DNA induced high titre antibodies in experimental animals. In enzyme immunoassay, serum antibodies from cancer patients (n = 34) showed a higher recognition of the modified DNA, as compared to the native form. This was further confirmed by the gel-shift assay. Immune IgG were used as a probe to detect oxidative lesions in the DNA of cancer patients. DNA isolated from lymphocytes of cancer patients proved to be an appreciable inhibitor of the experimentally induced antibodies against the ROS-DNA. This indicates the presence of oxidative lesions in the DNA obtained from cancer patients. The results show that ROS induced oxidative damage to DNA in cancer patients generate neo-epitopes that are alien for the immune system, resulting in autoantibody formation.     

To Hope or to Know: Coping with Uncertainty and Ambivalence in Women's Magazine Breast Cancer Articles

Breast cancer is one of the most feared diseases in contemporary Western society. Popular women's magazines are important sources of information about and orientation to the disease. The current study applies problematic integration theory in an interpretive analysis of all breast cancer articles appearing in five top-circulating women's magazines between 1997 and 2002. In so doing, the study illuminates two major challenges (uncertainty and ambivalence) and several imperfect approaches to coping constructed in this discourse (simplification, information-seeking/provision, affect management, trusting intuition, sustaining hope, and metaphoric reframing). These results have several clear and important practical implications and highlight a major and largely untried direction for future research.