Osteoporosis in women with breast cancer.

abstract：:The success of the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab, the vascular endothelial growth factor antagonist that was recently shown to significantly improve the survival of patients with metastatic colon cancer when administered in combination with conventional chemotherapy, has provided proof of principle in clinical tr...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Moses MA,Harper J,Fernández CA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric medicine is moving toward a greater appreciation that the delivery of quality medical care involves a partnership including the health care team, the child, and the family. Pediatric medicine now emphasizes the importance of information exchange among these groups. This paper discusses two models for communi...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Weidner NJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Although surgery for lung cancer was not common before the early twentieth century, it has enjoyed remarkable progress since then both in type of resection and technical approach. This has been coupled with significant technological advances. Here, we will review the history and evolution of this rela...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Abbas AE

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, the treatment options for patients with metastatic prostate cancer that progressed despite castrate levels of testosterone was limited, and no therapies provided an improvement in survival. The majority of these patients had extensive osseous disease, multiple comorbidities, and poor performance status. W...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Kelly WK,Slovin SF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in American men. Although the use of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer screening since the 1990s has led to increased early diagnoses, the most recent studies are in conflict about the risks and b...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Cook ED,Nelson AC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review describes the long scientific background followed to design guidelines and everyday clinical practice applied to melanoma patients. Surgery is the first option to cure melanoma patients (PTS) at initial diagnosis, since primary cutaneous lesions are usually easily resectable. An excisional...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Testori AAE,Blankenstein SA,van Akkooi ACJ

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Treatment failure, in the form of either persistence or local recurrence, occurs in 10 to 30% of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients after initial radiotherapy (RT). Early detection of persistent or recurrent disease aids in the recognition of tumors that can be candidates for salvage nasophayngectomy o...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Hao CY,Hao SP

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) accounts for the majority of the ovarian cancer deaths, but over the last years little improvement in overall survival has been achieved. HGSOC is a molecularly and clinically heterogeneous disease. At genomic level, it represents a C-class malignancy having frequent gene lo...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Mittempergher L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Despite recent advances in the care of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), significant morbidity and mortality remains. Symptoms caused by the cancer and its treatments can be profoundly debilitating. Palliative care aims to reduce this burden. In this review, we discuss the def...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Bhattacharya P,Dessain SK,Evans TL

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) prognosis is strictly related to the characteristics of the disease, which can range from very indolent cases to highly aggressive and refractory ones. Here we will review the current knowledge on MCL biomarkers. RECENT FINDINGS:Biomarker-informed diagnosis is essential for...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Condoluci A,Rossi D,Zucca E,Cavalli F

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The search is on for biomarkers for use in the diagnosis, staging, prognosis, and management of patients with melanoma. As with many types of cancer, the hematogenous spread of melanoma is a bad prognostic sign, and many groups have attempted to detect circulating melanoma cells in patients with different stages of me...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Kounalakis N,Goydos JS

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathways are commonly deregulated in cancers and promote cellular growth, proliferation, and survival. mTOR is part of two complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, with different biochemical structures and substrates specificity. PI3K/AKT...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Willems L,Tamburini J,Chapuis N,Lacombe C,Mayeux P,Bouscary D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of a gynecological malignancy during pregnancy is rare but not uncommon. Cancer treatment during pregnancy is possible, but both maternal and fetal interests need to be respected. Different treatment plans may be justifiable and multidisciplinary treatment is advised. Clinical trials are virtually imposs...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Han SN,Verheecke M,Vandenbroucke T,Gziri MM,Van Calsteren K,Amant F

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangements represent a seldom event in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Given the oncogene alteration, ALK targeting represents the main therapeutic strategy. Here, we review evidence regarding ALK inhibitors (ALKi): clinical activity, safety profiles, financial...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Tabbò F,Passiglia F,Novello S

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The prodrug strategy has its own particular real and theoretic obstacles. Clinical strategies and research efforts have tried to approach these problems. The bystander effect, whereby nontransduced cells are affected by simple proximity to those that have received the novel gene, has enabled many prodrug systems to be...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Smythe WR

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic data presented in this review suggest the involvement of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the patho- genesis of some histotypes of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in particular immunocytoma and lymphomas growing primarily in the liver and major salivary glands. Experimental data further support this hypothesis....

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Silvestri F,Sperotto A,Fanin R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic opioid therapy (defined as greater than 3 months on opioids) is a common practice for those with non-cancer pain, cancer survivors with treatment-related pain, and individuals with cancer undergoing disease-modifying therapy with a survival that can be for a year or more. Recent studies have found unique long-...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Davis MP,Mehta Z

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflibercept (known as ziv-aflibercept in the USA and sold under the trade name Zaltrap®) is a human recombinant fusion protein with antiangiogenic effects that functions as a decoy receptor to bind vascular endothelial growth factors A and B and placental growth factor. Its unique mechanism of action with respect to o...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Ciombor KK,Berlin J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of treatment for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas have significantly improved over the last decade, especially following the discovery that anti-CD20 antibody therapy can significantly change the outlook for patients with both aggressive and indolent lymphomas. Although investigators have previously attem...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Hagemeister FB

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although gastric cancer is still a worldwide major public health concern, it remains relatively uncommon in the Western countries. Despite improvement in surgical morbidity and mortality, as well as significant advancement of chemotherapy and radiotherapy options, the survival for gastric cancer has not significantly ...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Phan AT,Ajani JA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of our ability to diagnose and classify lymphomas in an increasingly refined manner has paralleled the development of novel technologic approaches, with contemporary practice dependent upon the harnessing of a plethora of data that include microscopic, immunophenotypic, and genetic information. Although ...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Bagg A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Opioids are the only class of drug with the proven ability to control severe pain. The introduction of stringent opioid prescribing restrictions has inevitably impacted upon the ability of those prescribing opioids for advanced life-limited disease to practice as previously and could limit the supply ...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Pinkerton R,Mitchell G,Hardy J

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Concurrent radiation therapy and chemotherapy is the primary treatment for patients with squamous cell tumors of the anal canal, and is also employed in the neoadjuvant setting for patients with stage II and III adenocarcinoma of the rectum. There is constant clinical study involving modifications of chemoradiotherapy...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Meyer J,Balch G,Willett C,Czito B

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a disease associated with fusion oncoproteins invariably involving the retinoic acid receptor (Raralpha). Retinoic acid induces differentiation in APL cells and is successfully used in conjunction with chemotherapy to treat and cure a significant percentage of patients with APL. A...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Mann KK,Shao W,Miller WH Jr

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Advances in cervical cancer screening and treatment have resulted in high cure rates in developed countries for early-stage disease. Current research focuses on minimizing morbidity and maximizing quality of life. RECENT FINDINGS:Imaging has been disappointing in identifying small volume metastases. ...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Zigras T,Lennox G,Willows K,Covens A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siltuximab is a chimeric monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-6 (IL-6), which in the fall of 2014 became the first FDA-approved treatment of the rare disease idiopathic multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD). MCD is a non-clonal lymphoproliferative disorder in which common symptoms include fever, night sweats, we...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Davis CC,Shah KS,Lechowicz MJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-risk non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) of the head and neck is difficult to manage, given its propensity for regional metastasis, perineural invasion, direct parotid invasion, and bony destruction. Management of these tumors demands awareness of the characteristics contributing to their recurrence. Recent studies e...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Lai SY,Weber RS

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-(γ)-herpes virus lymphomas comprise a heterogenous group of B-cell and T-cell neoplasms most commonly associated with Epstein-Barr virus and rarely human herpes virus-8 infection. Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) is a unique disease entity caused by the human T-cell lymphotrophic virus, type 1 (HTLV-I), the...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Ramos JC,Lossos IS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The incidence of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) increases with age; more than half of newly diagnosed patients are older than 65 years. Due to age-dependent decreasing organ functions, comorbidities, functional decline, and increasing risk of social isolation, not all patients are able to tolerate stan...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Lütgendorf-Caucig C,Freyschlag C,Masel EK,Marosi C

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Management of metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancers (HNSCC) can be challenging. This review gives an insight of current treatment options for patients with synchronous metastatic HNSCC and suggests a therapeutic algorithm. RECENT FINDINGS:With the rise of novel therapeutic techniques and med...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Tang E,Lahmi L,Meillan N,Pietta G,Albert S,Maingon P

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00