Immunotherapy for renal cell cancer in the era of targeted therapy.

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

authors： Zanfagnin V,Ferrero A,Biglia N,Aletti G,Gill SE,Makdisi PB,Multinu F,Mariani A

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma historically has a poor prognosis and the mortality rate has remained unchanged for over a decade. Common treatment options for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer include chemoradiation and/or chemotherapy. Single-agent gemcitabine has been considered the standard of care since...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Warsame R,Grothey A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal neoplasms exhibit a wide spectrum of molecular characteristics that are closely associated with their diverse morphologic manifestations and clinical behaviors. A wealth of information has been garnered via methodology ranging from classical cytogenetics to FISH and gene expression profiling; however, the exact ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Cheng L,Williamson SR,Zhang S,Maclennan GT,Montironi R,Lopez-Beltran A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) recommendations on the management of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) have recently been updated. Imatinib 400 mg/day remains the standard first-line treatment for patients with metastatic GIST. Mutational analysis has received a strong recommendation for diagnosti...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Blay JY,Reichardt P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its introduction almost 40 years ago, intravesical BCG for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer remains one of the most successful cancer immunotherapies. However, up to 40% of patients will progress after BCG therapy and develop invasive bladder cancer. Despite its extensive clinical use, we are only beginning to...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Wu Y,Enting D,Rudman S,Chowdhury S

更新日期：2015-05-01 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

authors： Cuzick J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurocognitive function (NCF) impairment is an important component of primary and metastatic brain tumors and their therapeutic interventions. As a result, modern clinical trials of cranial irradiation for adult cancer patients have incorporated NCF testing as a primary or secondary end point. In doing so, these clini...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Caine C,Mehta MP,Laack NN,Gondi V

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the introduction of orally-active, potent and selective third-generation aromatase inhibitors and inactivators--anastrozole, letrozole and exemestane--approaches to the treatment of advanced breast cancer are undergoing re-evaluation. In advanced breast cancer, aromatase inhibitors and inactivators are likely to ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Dixon JM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain tumors are the most common cause of cancer-related death and the second most common form of cancer in pediatric patients. Many of these tumors are treated primarily with surgery, either alone or in combination with radiation or chemotherapy. Recent advances have lead to greater survival and decreased morbidities...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Heuer GG,Jackson EM,Magge SN,Storm PB

更新日期：2007-12-01 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

authors： Gilbert DC,Van As NJ,Huddart RA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes the safety of sorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, focusing on the randomized, placebo-controlled, Phase III Treatment Approaches in Renal Cancer Global Evaluation Trial (TARGET) in renal cell carcinoma, which formed the basis of the approval of sorafenib. Similar to other targeted agents, ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Hutson TE

更新日期：2007-09-01 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

authors： Cohen V,Khuri FR

更新日期：2005-06-01 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

authors： Gore ME,Harrison ML,Montes A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of important studies were presented at the CNS tumors section of the 2010 American Society of Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. There was particular interest in a Phase II study showing that the mTOR inhibitor everolimus had significant activity in tuberous patients with subependymal giant cell astrocytomas. Tw...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Wen PY

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capecitabine is an oral prodrug of 5-fluorouracil. It is being increasingly used in the treatment of colorectal cancer in both the adjuvant and metastatic settings. This review aims to explore the data in relation to the pharmacology and mode of action of capecitabine, followed by an in-depth review of the available c...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Kelly C,Cassidy J

更新日期：2007-06-01 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

authors： Krikelis D,Judson I

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the association of concurrent chemotherapy, the widespread implementation of altered fractionation schedules and the use of more conformal radiotherapy techniques, the locoregional management of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck region (HNSCC) has greatly improved over the last decades. H...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Lambrecht M,Dirix P,Vandecaveye V,De Keyzer F,Hermans R,Nuyts S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The success of the immune checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma has reinvigorated the field of immunotherapy. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are now the standard of care in multiple cancer types including lung cancer, head and neck cancer, urothelial cancer and renal cell cancer. The field of immunotherapy is cu...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： O'reilly A,Larkin J

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Gastric cancer is one of a few gastrointestinal malignancies in which immunotherapy has shown meaningful activity. Pembrolizumab is the first and only immune checkpoint inhibitor to be FDA-approved in gastric cancer. Areas Covered: This review summarizes the current and emerging clinical evidence for immun...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Kamath SD,Kalyan A,Benson AB 3rd

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are becoming the hormonal treatment of choice for postmenopausal women with early breast cancer. Large, well-controlled clinical studies have established the efficacy and safety of initial adjuvant therapy with letrozole or anastrozole versus the previous standard of 5 years of adjuvant tamo...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Bria E,Carlini P,Cuppone F,Vaccaro V,Milella M,Cognetti F

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant pleural mesothelioma is an aggressive fatal malignancy with a prognosis that has not significantly improved in the last decades. This review summarizes the current state of treatment and the various attempts that are made to improve overall survival for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. It also d...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Schunselaar LM,Quispel-Janssen JM,Neefjes JJ,Baas P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myelogenous leukemia represents 7-20% of all leukemia cases, with a worldwide incidence projected at less than one to two per 100,000 people. Approximately 85% of patients are diagnosed with chronic-phase chronic myelogenous leukemia and up to 40% are asymptomatic. Treatment strategies include chemotherapy, in...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Redaelli A,Bell C,Casagrande J,Stephens J,Botteman M,Laskin B,Pashos C

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia in cancer patients is frequent but often under-recognized and under-treated. This may be related to misconceptions about the impact of anemia on cancer patients and ill-defined guidelines for treatment, as well as the inadequacies of current therapy. Darbepoetin alfa, a novel erythropoiesis-stimulating protein ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Pirker R,Smith R

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer has evolved greatly in the last 15 years, involving combined chemotherapy protocols and, in more recent times, new biologic agents. Clinical benefit from the use of targeted therapy with bevacizumab, aflibercept, cetuximab, panitumumab and regorafenib in the treatment of m...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Price TJ,Segelov E,Burge M,Haller DG,Tebbutt NC,Karapetis CS,Punt CJ,Pavlakis N,Arnold D,Gibbs P,Shapiro JD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is the most common solid-organ cancer affecting the male population. Men with metastatic prostate cancer treated with androgen ablation therapy often respond rapidly, with improvement in bone pain and decreases in serum prostate-specific antigen. However, almost all patients progress to the castrate-re...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Rawlinson A,Mohammed A,Beatty J,Bell R,Miller M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the general intent of treatment for patients with recurrent ovarian cancer is palliative, and cure does not seem to be a realistic objective in this setting, median overall survival is greater than 12 months in platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer. Patients with ovarian cancer can now expect that the t...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Kose MF,Meydanli MM,Tulunay G

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonmelanoma skin cancer is the most prevalent malignant disease among light-skinned individuals in the USA, accounting for approximately 1 million new cases annually. Solar ultraviolet radiation is known to be the major cause of skin cancer. The idea that diet, particularly dietary fat, may play a role in modulating c...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Black HS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we first describe the history of transsphenoidal surgery. We further elaborate on three fundamental surgical anatomy principles of transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenomas. First, the pituitary gland and, therefore, pituitary adenomas are extra-arachnoid structures, therefore the operation should...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Ciric IS,Zhao J

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia has become increasingly difficult over the last few years since there are a variety of treatment options available. The ultimate challenge is to decide the most appropriate treatment strategy for an individual patient. To facilitate this, assessment of an individual...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Burton C,Marin D,Apperley J

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor in children and adolescents. With combined modality treatment long-term survival rate for localized disease is near 70%. Thirty percent of patients relapse with lung as the commonest site. Surgery is the treatment of choice for relapsed patients whenever pos...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Vijayamurugan N,Bakhshi S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00