Therapy for small cell and non-small cell lung cancer.

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Immunotherapy of HPV-induced premalignant anogenital lesions and cervical cancer has made impressive progress. HPV as causative agent is targeted by prophylactic and therapeutic vaccination strategies. Preclinical and clinical studies have shown induction of natural and/or vaccine-induced immune respo...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Schreckenberger C,Kaufmann AM

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Chemotherapy is a cornerstone treatment in patients with early breast cancer. Although some cancer cell-related predictors are emerging, the indications of chemotherapy and the choice of chemotherapy regimen are not individualized enough, emphasizing the need for new predictors. This review will summa...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Andre F,Berrada N,Desmedt C

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) constitute a diverse group of neoplasms arising from the diffuse neuroendocrine cell system. During the last 2 years a new classification system, the WHO 2010, has come into clinical practice together with Tumor Nodes Metastases (TNM) staging and...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Oberg K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the recent literature about liver cancers shows the increasing role of hepatitis C as a risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. A new discussion has arisen with regard to the association between the use of oral contraceptives and hepatocellular carcinoma. Patients at risk for developin...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Weimann A,Oldhafer KJ,Pichlmayr R

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment options for patients with recurrent head and neck malignancies arising in a previously irradiated field are limited. Surgical salvage is feasible in a minority of patients. The majority are referred for palliative chemotherapy with no realistic chance for cure. Data are accumulating to support reirradiat...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Garofalo MC,Haraf DJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The mesenchymal-epidermal transition (c-MET) receptor tyrosine kinase has a central role in the cancer cell's survival. MET and its ligand, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), have recently been identified as promising targets in solid tumors, including nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). RECENT FINDINGS:...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Landi L,Minuti G,D'Incecco A,Cappuzzo F

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enormous progress has been made in the last several years in delineating signal transduction pathways associated with cell proliferation and apoptosis. The components of these pathways, which include both oncogenes and tumor suppressors, may provide viable targets for therapeutic intervention for the treatment of canc...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Huang PS,Heimbrook DC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and variety of solid tumors reported among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals are increasing. Among the most common of these tumors are anogenital malignant and premalignant tumors associated with human papillomavirus infection. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia is one such human pa...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Palefsky JM

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The growing awareness that the immune system is a key player in the antitumoral response and the excellent clinical results achieved in some settings with anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD1)/programmed death ligand 1 (PDL1) and anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA4) drugs has led to t...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Anciaux M,Vandeputte C,Hendlisz A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To highlight the most recent advances in the imaging of gliomas with a focus on high-grade gliomas. In the last several years, MRI and PET imaging of the brain have moved beyond anatomic imaging and are now capable of probing different aspects of tumor biology and response to treatment. These new tech...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Gerstner ER,Batchelor TT

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a hematologic malignancy characterized by an initial chronic phase of expanded clonal myelopoiesis followed by inevitable progression to accelerated phase and finally to fatal blast crisis. Although interferon therapy results in hematologic control of disease in most patients and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Enright H,McGlave P

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Significant advances have been made in the treatment of younger patients with acute myeloid leukemia over the past 3 decades, but prognosis in the elderly has remained dismal, with median survival times of only a few months. Although a small percentage of older patients may be cured by standard chemot...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Amadori S,Del Principe MI,Venditti A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper covers the outcome of previously conducted clinical trials on chemotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma and presents data from recent phase II and phase III trials. In contrast to conventional cytotoxic drugs, which have barely produced response rates exceeding 30%, recently introduced chemotherapeuti...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Tomek S,Manegold C

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:As the number and uses for targeted therapies such as epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors (EGFRIs) increase, so does the need to recognize and treat the dermatologic side-effects of these agents. Although agents such as gefitinib, erlotinib, cetuximab, lapatinib, and panitumumab have less syst...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Wu PA,Balagula Y,Lacouture ME,Anadkat MJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biologic and clinical heterogeneity of lymphomas represents the major obstacle to their diagnosis. Because histologic analysis, which is the initial diagnostic approach, has been demonstrated to be insufficient in the definition of certain types of lymphomas, molecular and immunologic techniques have been increasi...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Veronese ML,Schichman SA,Croce CM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：KEY POINTS:(1) Surgery is the standard primary treatment for early stage endometrial cancer, with local adjuvant therapies such as pelvic radiotherapy and vaginal brachytherapy most often used in patients with high risk of recurrence. (2) There are currently very few well designed studies evaluating local therapies in ...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Deeks E

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine kinase (type 1) growth factor receptors include the erbB family. These cell surface receptors were discovered in the context of cellular transformation and have subsequently been found to be overexpressed in many types of human cancer. Cumulative evidence suggests that upregulation of the most well-characteri...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Lango MN,Shin DM,Grandis JR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Sarcomas are a diverse group of rare solid tumors with limited treatment options for patients with advanced, inoperable disease. Cabozantinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor currently approved for advanced renal cell, hepatocellular, and medullary thyroid carcinoma. Cabozantinib has potent activity aga...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Schöffski P,Blay JY,Ray-Coquard I

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:In this review, we highlight key recent insights into hematopoiesis and hematological malignancies through the application of novel single-cell approaches. We particularly focus on biological insights made through the study of stem/progenitors cells in myeloid malignancy at single-cell resolution. RE...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Brierley CK,Mead AJ

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has shown that: 1) loss of transforming growth factor-beta response is associated with malignant progression, 2) maintenance of autocrine negative transforming growth factor-beta activity is a key impediment to malignant progression, and 3) the major mechanism for loss of RII expression in replication erro...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Brattain MG,Markowitz SD,Willson JK

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The mutational landscape in lung adenocarcinoma (LADC) is broadly recognized, particularly regarding the presence of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation in non-smokers. However, even in the EGFR canonical-mutant LADC, other accompanying alterations surface which may have a major impac...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Rosell R,Karachaliou N,Arrieta O

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphosphonates inhibit osteoclast-mediated bone resorption in metastatic bone disease. A wealth of preclinical data have begun to shed light on the complex mechanisms by which bisphosphonates inhibit bone resorption and interfere with the formation and growth of bone metastases. Nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates in...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Green JR

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for effective adjuvant therapy for melanoma has resulted in the testing of a remarkably broad spectrum of therapeutic agents. Until recently, there was little evidence to suggest a benefit for any adjuvant therapy. The demonstration of activity for adjuvant high-dose interferon alfa in a cooperative group t...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Sondak VK,Wolfe JA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of renal cell carcinoma remains one of the most unpredictable of the genitourinary neoplasms. Once this disease has spread beyond the confines of the kidney, it is extremely difficult to control. This year, emphasis has focused on the characteristic cytogenetic and chromosomal changes that are seen in thi...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Reese JH

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Retroperitoneal sarcoma (RPS) is a rare disease, and until recently, its natural history and outcome were poorly understood. Recently, collaborations between individual centers have led to an unprecedented collection of retrospective and prospective data and successful recruitment to the first randomi...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： van Houdt WJ,Raut CP,Bonvalot S,Swallow CJ,Haas R,Gronchi A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Evaluate the recent literature about the relation of clinical infection and colorectal cancer in terms of diagnosis of an occult infection and possible impact on oncological outcome and review the possible role of the gut microbiota in the role of colorectal cancer oncogenesis. RECENT FINDINGS:Data p...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Massaut E,Hendlisz B,Klastersky JA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The p53 tumor suppressor is a master regulator of antitumor defenses through its control of growth arrest, senescence and apoptosis. In recent years, p53 regulation was found to extend to a variety of biological processes including autophagy, fertility, metabolism and immune responses. Here, we focus ...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Menendez D,Shatz M,Resnick MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seroepidemiologic studies show that Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is more prevalent in those populations at higher risk to develop Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Anti-KSHV antibody titer is also higher in those who develop KS. KSHV is a sexually transmitted disease among homosexual men, but other routes of transmission ...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Whitby D,Boshoff C

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Childhood blastomas, unlike adult cancers, originate from developing organs in which molecular and cellular features exhibit differentiation arrest and embryonic characteristics. Conventional cancer therapies, which rely on the generalized cytotoxic effect on rapidly dividing cells, may damage delicat...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Oh L,Hafsi H,Hainaut P,Ariffin H

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease-free survival for patients with small sarcomas of bone has been impressively improved with the use of intensive combination chemotherapy and safe local control with surgery or radiation. The ability of monoclonal antibodies to recognize different antigens has allowed new insights into the histogenesis and has ...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Jürgens HF

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00