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Among Women across Worlds
In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement. Asian women, especially communists, are often depicted as victims of a patriarchal state. Kim challenges this view through extensive archival research, revealing that North Korean women asserted themselves from the late 1940s to 1975, before the Korean War began and up to the UN's International Women's Year. Kim centers on North Korea and the \"East\" to present a new genealogy of the global women's movement. Women of the Korean Democratic Women's Union (KDWU), part of the global left women's movement led by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), argued that family and domestic issues should be central to both national and international debates. They highlighted the connections between race, nationality, sex, and class in systems of exploitation. Their intersectional program proclaimed \"no peace without justice,\" \"the personal is the political,\" and \"women's rights are human rights,\" long before Western activists adopted these ideas. Among Women across Worlds uncovers movements and ideas foundational to today's era.
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Positive Psychology Interventions in Practice
\"This book presents recent advancements in positive psychology, specifically its application across broad areas of current interest. Chapters include submissions from various international authors in the field and cover discussion and presentation of relevant research, theories, and applications. The volume covers topics such as CBT, Psychotherapy, Coaching, Workplaces, Aging, Education, Leadership, Emotion, Interventions, Measurement, Technology, Design, Health, Relationships, Experiences, Communities. With the growing interest in the applications of positive psychology across diverse fields within psychology and beyond, this book will make a worthwhile contribution to the field. It will also fill the current need for a volume that highlights specifically the various recent advancements in positive psychology into diverse fields and as such will be of benefit to a wide range of professionals, including psychologists, educators, clinicians, therapists, and many others.\" -- Publisher's website.
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New brain metastases after whole-brain radiotherapy of initial brain metastases in breast cancer patients: the significance of molecular subtypes (KROG 16-12)
PurposeTo identify the risk factors leading to new brain metastases (BM) following brain-directed treatment for initial BM resulting from breast cancer (BC).MethodsIn this multi-institutional study, 538 BC patients with available follow-up imaging after brain-directed treatment for initial BM were analyzed. Tumor molecular subtypes were classified as follows: hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HR+/HER2−, n = 136), HER2-positive (HER2+, n = 253), or triple-negative BC (TNBC, n = 149).ResultsIn 37.4% of patients, new BM emerged at a median of 10.5 months after brain-directed treatment for initial BM. The 1-year actuarial rate of new BM for HR+/HER2−, HER2+, and TNBC were 51.9%, 44.0%, and 69.6%, respectively (p = 0.008). Initial whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) reduced new BM rates (22.5% reduction at 1 year, p < 0.001) according to molecular subtype (HR+/HER2−, 42% reduction at 1 year, p < 0.001; HER2+, 18.5%, p = 0.004; TNBC, 16.9%, p = 0.071). Multivariate analysis revealed an increased risk of new BM for the following factors: shorter intervals between primary BC diagnoses and BM (p = 0.031); TNBC (relative to HR+/HER2−) (p = 0.016); presence of extracranial metastases (p = 0.019); number of BM (>4) (p < 0.001); and BM in both tentorial regions (p = 0.045). Anti-HER2 therapy in HER2+ patients (p = 0.013) and initial use of WBRT (p < 0.001) significantly lowered new BM development.ConclusionsTumor molecular subtypes were associated with both rates of new BM development and the effectiveness of initial WBRT. Anti-HER2 therapy in HER2+ patients significantly lowered new BM occurrence.
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Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950
During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life. InEveryday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950, Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people's lives in the development of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea insists on setting its own course.
Kim's innovative use of documents seized by U.S. military forces during the Korean War and now stored in the National Archives-personnel files, autobiographies, minutes of organizational meetings, educational materials, women's magazines, and court documents-together with oral histories allows her to present the first social history of North Korea during its formative years. In an account that makes clear the leading role of women in these efforts, Kim examines how villagers experienced, understood, and later remembered such events as the first land reform and modern elections in Korea's history, as well as practices in literacy schools, communal halls, mass organizations, and study sessions that transformed daily routine.
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An assessment of quality of life for early phase after adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer survivors: a Korean multicenter survey (KROG 14–09)
Backgrounds
Quality of life (QoL) has become a major concern as the survival time of breast cancer increases. We investigated the changes in QoL through comprehensive categorical analysis, for the first three years after breast cancer treatment including radiotherapy.
Methods
A total of 1156 patients were enrolled from 17 institutions. All survivors were grouped according to a surveillance period of 9–15 months (first year), 21–27 months (second year), and 33–39 months (third year) from the end of radiotherapy. The 5-dimensional questionnaire by the EuroQol group (EQ-5D) and the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire; breast cancer specific module (QLQ-BR23) were checked by self-administrated method.
Results
First, second and third year groups comprised 51.0, 28.9, and 21.0%. In EQ-5D-3 L (3-Likert scale) analysis, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression categories showed lower QoL. In multivariate analyses of EQ-5D-VAS (visual-analogue scale), categories of pain/discomfort and self-care were improved with time; axillary dissection was a significant clinical factor deteriorates pain/discomfort, self-care and usual activities. In QLQ-BR23 analysis, the lowest scored category was sexual activity, followed by sexual enjoyment, future perspective, and hair loss, and the best scored category was breast symptoms. In multivariate analyses, arm symptoms, breast symptoms and body image were improved with time.
Conclusions
Categories of pain/discomfort and self-care in EQ-5D-VAS, arm/breast symptoms and body image in QLQ-BR23 were improved, while categories of anxiety/depression and future perspective BR23 were not, suggesting necessity of psychosocial support. This research provides comprehensive information on the categorical aspects of QoL and changes during early follow-up after breast cancer treatment.
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Prognostic significance of breast cancer subtype and p53 overexpression in patients with locally advanced or high-risk breast cancer treated using upfront modified radical mastectomy with or without post-mastectomy radiation therapy
Background
Although post-mastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) has shown benefits, its effects in patient subpopulations remain uncertain. Therefore, we assessed whether breast cancer subtype and p53 overexpression were associated with outcome after modified radical mastectomy (MRM), with or without PMRT.
Methods
We retrospectively analyzed the records of patients who underwent MRM, with or without PMRT, between January 1991 and December 2008. Patients were considered eligible if they had T3 or T4 stage disease; any T stage with N2 or N3 stage; any T or N stage with positive, close (<1 mm) resection margins; or skin, nipple, or pectoral muscle invasion. We used immunohistochemistry and/or fluorescent in situ hybridization to determine breast cancer subtypes and p53 overexpression status.
Results
We found that 104 patients were eligible, including 59 (56.7%) who underwent PMRT and 45 (43.3%) who did not. Median follow-up duration was 61.3 months (range 16.1–232.7). Overall survival (OS) was significantly longer in patients who underwent PMRT (
P
= 0.029). This trend was evident in the subgroup of luminal type A breast cancer (
P
= 0.017) and non-p53 overexpression (
P
= 0.026) patients. However, there was no significant survival benefit from PMRT in the subgroup of triple negative (TN) breast cancer (
P
= 0.528) and p53 overexpression (
P
= 0.189) patients.
Conclusions
The benefit of PMRT differed among subgroups with different breast cancer subtype and p53 overexpression. More efficacious systemic treatment strategies are needed, especially in patients at high risk for distant metastasis, to obtain optimal therapeutic gain.
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Beyond Cold War Women
The Cold War is conventionally thought to be long over. Whatever legacies of it remain in East Asia, such as the continued division of the Korean Peninsula and strained relations between Taiwan and China, are regarded as mere relics of a bygone era. When the Cold War in its conventional periodization was entering its last decade, the famed historian of the English working class and longtime peace activist E.P. Thompson delivered a prescient lecture in 1981 about going beyond the Cold War. This statement has come to resonate far beyond its original context, for it is now clear that the Cold War never ended. This essay traces the puzzling history of the peace versus freedom debate in order to show more concretely how such abstract notions as peace and freedom take on gendered meaning with dire political implications. I begin with a brief historical account to situate women in this debate, showing how the bifurcation of peace and freedom affected women peacemakers during the Cold War, that is, as Cold War women.
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