Abstract:
:Although testicular cancer is currently a rare disease, the incidence is rising. The most important risk factor remains cryptorchism and there is a variable association with testicular microlithiasis. Serum tumor markers remain important for diagnosis, and they have prognostic value and can be used to monitor therapy and follow-up. Conventional imaging can only be improved in specific categories of patients with positron emission tomography scanning. The optimal therapy after orchiectomy should be individualized based on the histology of the primary specimen, the presence or absence of metastasis, and marker levels. An optimal definition of risk factors will likely spur the development of risk-adjusted treatment modalities and subsequently lead to better results and less toxicity. Extensive research into the molecular biology of testicular cancer is ongoing and will hopefully offer new targets for the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of testicular cancer in the future.
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Expert Rev Anticancer Therjournal_title
Expert review of anticancer therapyauthors
Balk C,Witjes JAdoi
10.1586/14737140.4.4.669keywords:
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2004-08-01 00:00:00pages
669-77issue
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ERA040418journal_volume
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杂志文章,评审abstract::miRNAs, which are small single-stranded RNA molecules composed of 18-23 nts, act as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes playing important roles in the processes of tumor formation, infiltration and metastasis. Lung cancer currently has the highest morbidity and mortality among all malignant tumors; yet, lack of early ...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.2013.870037
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Despite a variety of therapies for advanced metastatic colorectal cancer being available, the outcomes in this malignancy remain suboptimal. Immunotherapy has been slow to impact the management of this patient group. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as nivolumab, have had disappointing results when used broadly...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/14737140.2018.1480942
更新日期:2018-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Introduction: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most important health problems in the Western world. In order to reduce the burden of the disease, two strategies are proposed: screening and prompt detection in symptomatic patients. Although diagnosis and prevention is mainly based on colonoscopy, faecal haemoglobi...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/14737140.2021.1882858
更新日期:2021-01-28 00:00:00
abstract::Approximately 25% of breast cancer patients without lymph node metastases develop systemic relapse. A growing body of data supports the notion that hematogenous dissemination of breast cancer cells occurs independently of lymphatic spread of disease; however, current clinical practice does not involve routine analysis...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.7.10.1463
更新日期:2007-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent advances in molecular and cell biology have led to a greater understanding of the basic biology of bladder cancer. However, despite these advances, surgery remains a key component of modern bladder cancer treatment. Endoscopy is the mainstay of the diagnosis and treatment of superficial bladder cancer. Adjuvant...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.3.6.781
更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Childhood acute myeloid leukemia is rare, but accounts for a significant number of malignancy-related deaths in this age group. However, the prognosis has improved over past decades, and survival rates of 60% and above have been reported. Still, this implies that more than a third of children and adolescents die from ...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.5.5.917
更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The characterization of the mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) entity had a major impact on patient management and has played a profound role in improving therapy. Although the prognosis is improving in MCL, there is no definitive proof that the therapies currently available will lead to cure. Few randomized studies have been...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/era.12.99
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The incidence of renal cell cancer is increasing and surgery is the only curative treatment for patients presenting with localized disease at diagnosis. The treatment of metastatic renal cell cancer is palliative and, until recently, immunotherapy has been the standard treatment approach with response rates between 10...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.7.1.57
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Patients with unilateral breast cancer are at increased risk of developing a second cancer in the contralateral breast. Some women choose contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) to prevent cancer in the contralateral breast. Several studies have demonstrated that CPM significantly decreases the occurrence of contr...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.7.8.1117
更新日期:2007-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Endometrial cancer is a common gynecologic malignancy in the United States, and the recurrence rate depends on the disease stage at diagnosis. Recurrence can affect several areas and follow different patterns. AREAS COVERED:The role of surgery at the time of recurrence is not clearly defined. In this revi...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/14737140.2016.1190650
更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Advanced transitional-cell carcinoma of the bladder is the most common cancer of the urinary tract, with a high mortality rate. Cisplatin-based chemotherapy has demonstrated prolonged survival of these patients and is considered the standard of care. Nevertheless, 40-50% of patients have impaired renal function that p...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/era.10.197
更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Testicular germ cell tumors are the most frequent solid tumor to affect young adult males and are increasing in incidence for reasons that are poorly understood. Increasingly, patients present with localized disease where disease-specific survival approaches 100%. Even in the presence of metastatic disease, the majori...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.9.2.223
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:The treatment landscape of metastatic prostate cancer has changed dramatically over the past five years. As new discoveries are made and further novel therapies become available, there is a heightened urgency to develop biomarkers that can guide prognoses and predict therapy responses. Circulating tumor ce...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/14737140.2017.1359544
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes account for around 2-3% of breast cancer events and more than 10% of triple negative breast cancers. Olaparib (Lynparza®), an orally administered PARP inhibitor, demonstrated clinical benefit in a phase III trial for mutated BRCA-positive HER2 negative metastatic breast c...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/14737140.2018.1458613
更新日期:2018-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We performed a meta-analysis to assess whether blood can be substituted for tumor tissue in K-ras mutation testing. PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and BIOSIS databases were searched. Twenty-three studies including 1261 patients were included. The pooled overall sensitivity, specificity, and concordance rate were 0.69 (95% C...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1586/14737140.2015.1037836
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Fertility impairment due to treatments is a major concern for adolescents and young adult patients who survived cancer. Areas covered: Chemotherapy may determine a detrimental effect on ovary function, leading to infertility, and premature ovarian failure. Embryo and oocyte cryopreservation is a standard s...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/14737140.2017.1316195
更新日期:2017-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Tamoxifen has been shown to reduce the incidence of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer by approximately 50% in high-risk women. Similar results are seen for raloxifene, but it has a more favorable side-effect profile. Data on contralateral tumors from women in adjuvant trials treated with aromatase inhibitors su...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1586/14737140.8.9.1377
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:In the majority of cases, multiple myeloma is a disease occurring in elderly patients. In the last decades, a major improvement in myeloma patients' outcome has been achieved with the introduction of several new drugs. However, this positive outcome was less likely to occur in elderly patients. Areas cover...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/14737140.2018.1496823
更新日期:2018-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Soft tissue sarcomas are a diverse group of rare tumors that comprise 1% of all cancers. Few randomized trials of chemotherapy have been performed but there is a clear role for agents such as doxorubicin and ifosfamide in the palliation of advanced disease. There is uncertainty as to whether sequential single-agent tr...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/era.09.176
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Diffuse brain stem glioma is the most devastating of pediatric malignancies. Virtually all children with this disease die within 1-2 years of diagnosis. After three decades of exhaustive research, the key to controlling this malignancy still eludes us. Attempts to improve survival using radiation, chemotherapy and bio...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.7.5.663
更新日期:2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Historically, patients diagnosed with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have had poor survival rates. In recent years there have been significant advances in the treatment of CRPC. In addition to cytotoxic chemotherapy, treating physicians and their patients now have the option of several new agents that tar...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/era.12.59
更新日期:2012-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:In breast cancer, estrogen receptor (ER) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) are essential biomarkers to predict response to endocrine and anti-HER2 therapies, respectively. In metastatic breast cancer, the use of these receptors and targeted therapies present additional challenges: tempora...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/14737140.2019.1552138
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Fludarabine is a prodrug that is converted to the free nucleoside 9-beta-D-arabinosyl-2-fluoroadenine (F-ara-A), which enters cells and accumulates mainly as the 5'-triphosphate, F-ara-ATP. F-ara-ATP has multiple mechanisms of action, which are mostly directed toward DNA. Collectively, these actions affect DNA synthes...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.6.9.1141
更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A lymphocele is a cystic mass that may occur in the retroperitoneum following a systematic pelvic and/or para-aortic lymphadenectomy. Lymphoceles may be the cause of severe morbidity, or rarely mortality. Symptomatic lymphoceles manifest with pain, compression of adjacent structures, lymphoedema, deep vein thrombosis ...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.2014.866043
更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::A major issue with current cancer therapy is how to ensure the maximum benefit with minimum toxicity for individual patients. With the progress of the human genome project have come high-throughput technologies for the analysis of DNA, gene expression or tumor protein in an efficient and quantitative manner. This revi...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.2.1.113
更新日期:2002-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Most germ cell cancer patients with metastatic disease are cured by cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy. 30% of metastatic patients will develop relapse or progress despite adequate first-line treatment and will require salvage therapy, with about 10% of metastasized patients ultimately developing pla...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/14737140.2018.1450630
更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva is a rare disease, accounting for approximately 5% of cancers of the female genital tract. Standard therapy for early-stage vulvar cancer mainly comprises of surgery of the vulva and groins. In locally advanced or metastatic vulvar cancer, neoadjuvant or definitive chemoradiation i...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.2015.1037837
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:: Renal cell carcinoma is no longer considered a monolithic disease, but a group of different entities exhibiting unique molecular alterations requiring a tailored systemic approach. One of the remaining challenges is the identification of the best candidate for a particular therapeutic regimen. AREAS COV...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/14737140.2021.1878882
更新日期:2021-01-29 00:00:00
abstract::Lung cancer develops in a stepwise fashion, with an accumulation of molecular alterations progressing through preinvasive steps to invasive disease. This progression could be arrested or reversed through pharmacologic treatments, which are known as cancer chemoprevention. Preclinical and clinical findings relating to ...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/14737140.5.3.549
更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) was first approved for platinum-refractory ovarian cancer in 1999 and then received full approval for platinum-sensitive recurrent disease in 2005 by the US FDA. PLD remains an important therapeutic tool in the management of recurrent ovarian cancer in 2012. Phase-II and III clini...
journal_title:Expert review of anticancer therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1586/era.11.187
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00