Abstract:
:We report the long-term results of a series of patients affected by advanced epithelial ovarian cancer treated with the PEC combination (cisplatin 60 mg/m2, epirubicin 60 mg/m2 and cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m2, all at day 1, every 21 days). Response was evaluated after three cycles, and treatment continued in responsive patients. A total of 80 patients with a median follow-up of 55 months were studied. Fifty-eight patients with stage III ovarian cancer and 22 patients with stage IV received PEC as primary treatment (41 patients), or for residual disease after surgery (37 patients), or for relapsed disease after primary surgery (2 patients). The overall response rate was 67.5% (20.0% complete response, 47.5% partial response), with 22.5% stable disease and 3.7% progressive disease. Median progression free survival was 13.0 months, and median survival was 25 months. Grade III-IV toxicity was moderate: leukopenia 20.0% of patients, thrombocytopenia 5.0%, anemia 16.2%. No cardiac toxicity was observed. In conclusion, the PEC combination, an anthracycline-containing platinum-based regimen, proved to be effective in advanced ovarian cancer, in terms of response rate and overall survival. The regimen was devoid of significant toxicity and in particular of cardiac toxicity.
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Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CRauthors
Massacesi C,Bascioni R,Cellerino R,Scartozzi M,Bracci R,Alessandroni P,Antognoli S,Ciavattini A,De Nictolis M,Piga Akeywords:
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杂志文章abstract:INTRODUCTION:Women with ductal hyperplasia including usual ductal hyperplasia (UDH) and atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) have an increased risk of developing invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) of breast. The importance of several molecular markers in breast cancer has been of considerable interest during recent years suc...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/1756-9966-29-112
更新日期:2010-08-16 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-018-0813-4
更新日期:2018-07-18 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Metastasis in breast cancer is a vital concern in treatment because most women with primary breast cancer have micrometastases to distant sites at diagnosis. As a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family, survivin has been proposed as an attractive target for new anticancer interventions. In...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/1756-9966-27-46
更新日期:2008-09-25 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Growing evidences indicate that circular RNAs (circRNAs) play an important role in the regulation of biological behavior of tumor. We aim to explore the role of circRNA in glioma and elucidate how circRNA acts. METHODS:Real-time PCR was used to examine the expression of circPTN in glioma tissues and normal ...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-019-1376-8
更新日期:2019-09-11 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-019-1278-9
更新日期:2019-07-09 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1186/s13046-019-1172-5
更新日期:2019-04-23 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1186/s13046-020-01721-9
更新日期:2020-11-09 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-016-0285-3
更新日期:2016-01-12 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Next generation sequencing (NGS) is being increasingly applied for assisting cancer molecular diagnosis. However, it is still needed to validate NGS accuracy on detection of DNA alternations based on a large number of clinical samples, especially for DNA rearrangements and copy number variations (CNVs). This...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-017-0591-4
更新日期:2017-09-07 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-018-0740-4
更新日期:2018-03-27 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-020-01704-w
更新日期:2020-10-28 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Viscum album L. extracts (VAE, European mistletoe) are a widely used medicinal plant extract in gynaecological and breast-cancer treatment. METHODS:Systematic review to evaluate clinical studies and preclinical research on the therapeutic effectiveness and biological effects of VAE on gynaecological and bre...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1186/1756-9966-28-79
更新日期:2009-06-11 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-016-0366-3
更新日期:2016-06-03 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-018-0943-8
更新日期:2018-11-28 00:00:00
abstract::Colorectal cancers are significant causes of morbidity and mortality and existing therapies often perform poorly for individuals afflicted with advanced disease. Oncolytic virotherapy is an emerging therapeutic modality with great promise for addressing this medical need. Herein we describe the in vivo testing of reco...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-015-0131-z
更新日期:2015-02-19 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (Rig-I) is an intracellular viral RNA receptor, which specifically recognizes double-stranded viral RNA initiating antiviral innate immunity. Increasing evidences showed that Rig-I had broader roles in antibacterial immunity and cancer protection. However, the potential roles a...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-016-0471-3
更新日期:2017-01-05 00:00:00
abstract::The heterogeneous tumor microenvironment (TME) is highly complex and not entirely understood. These complex configurations lead to the generation of oxygen-deprived conditions within the tumor niche, which modulate several intrinsic TME elements to promote immunosuppressive outcomes. Decoding these communications is n...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1186/s13046-020-01583-1
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Radionuclide therapy with bone seeking radiopharmaceuticals is one of the oldest interventions in nuclear medicine and has been now in use for many years as an effective method of palliating painful bone metastases. Clinical indications have slowly but progressively increased starting from end-stage prostate cancer wi...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The mechanism behind poor survival of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients with 1-barabinofuranosylcytosine (Ara-C) based treatment remains unclear. This study aimed to assess the pharmacogenomic effects of Ara-C metabolic pathway in patients with AML. METHODS:The genotypes of 19 single nucleotide polymorp...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1186/s13046-014-0090-9
更新日期:2014-11-15 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The transcription factor HOXD9 is one of the members of the HOX family, which plays an important role in neoplastic processes. However, the role of HOXD9 in the growth and metastasis of gastric cancer (GC) remains to be elucidated. METHODS:In vitro functional role of HOXD9 and RURY3 in GC cells was determin...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-019-1399-1
更新日期:2019-09-23 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The identification of novel targets for recovering sorafenib resistance is pivotal for Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. Mitophagy is the programmed degradation of mitochondria, and is likely involved in drug resistance of cancer cells. Here, we identified hyperactivated mitophagy is essential for sor...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-020-01768-8
更新日期:2020-12-07 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Metastasis via the lymphatic system is promoted by lymphangiogenesis. Alterations of the lymphatic channels during the progression of metastasis to regional lymph nodes (LNs) remain unexplored. To examine whether tumor-induced LN lymphangiogenesis controls metastasis to regional LNs, we investigated cervical...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/1756-9966-31-83
更新日期:2012-10-02 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Osteosarcoma (OS) is a high-grade bone sarcoma with early metastasis potential, and the clinical chemotherapy drugs that are currently used for its treatment have some limitations. Recently, several studies have reported the selective antitumor effect of oleandrin on various tumor cells. In this study, we ai...
journal_title:Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s13046-015-0232-8
更新日期:2015-10-06 00:00:00