Abstract：
:The term Unfit refers to older cancer patients not amenable with standard treatment and needing therefore a modified or attenuated treatment or also not deserving an active therapeutic approach. To determine whether an old patient is Unfit a Multidimensional Geriatric Evaluation is needed, but to spare time, shortened tools of evaluation are now in a phase of development. Most of the available data on older cancer patients derive from clinical prospective studies carried out in a selected population, with the exclusion then of Unfit patients. The challenge of this special issue of CTR is that of providing a clinically useful information on the basis of the results of the available studies and expert opinion in the main tumor types.
journal_name
Cancer Treat Revjournal_title
Cancer treatment reviewsauthors
Monfardini Sdoi
10.1016/j.ctrv.2009.04.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-10-01 00:00:00pages
485-6issue
6eissn
0305-7372issn
1532-1967pii
S0305-7372(09)00055-3journal_volume
35pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Prostate cancer (CaP) is one of the most common malignancies in men, with an increasing incidence. Despite significant advances in surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat CaP, many patients unfortunately succumb to secondary disease (metastases). The invasive ability of tumour cells plays a key role in CaP met...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2007.06.003
更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Patients with malignant disease may need hormonal therapy as primary or adjuvant treatment or for palliation. Oestrogens usually decrease serum levels of total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), increase high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) concentration, but induce an elevation ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2008.09.007
更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The use of megestrol acetate in treatment of malignancy (endometrial carcinoma, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, renal cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma), endometrial hyperplasia, benign prostatic hypertrophy, contraception, anorexia, cachexia and weight loss is reviewed, concluding with a toxicity pro...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0305-7372(89)90004-2
更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cancer is increasingly being viewed as a chronic illness requiring long-term management, and there is a growing need for evidence-based rehabilitation interventions for cancer survivors. Previous reviews have evaluated the benefits of exercise interventions for patients undergoing cancer treatment and long...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2009.11.003
更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The effects of cancer and treatment have severe and long lasting negative impacts on quality of life. Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) have high survival rates but may not reach their full life potential because of these consequences. This review aims to identify, appraise and synthesise the effects of hea...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2017.02.011
更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The use of endocrine therapy is well established as a primary treatment for locally advanced breast cancer. However, despite the current popularity of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for operable tumours, there is relatively little published evidence for pre-operative endocrine therapy in operable disease, particularly outsi...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2006.10.003
更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:At diagnosis, 25-40% of patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) are 70 years of age or older, and many of them have been undertreated because of fear of excessive toxicity associated with chemotherapy. Papers retrieved by a Medline search using the key words "elderly or older" and "small cell lung cancer" and by a...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2003.12.006
更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Biliary tract cancers (BTCs) are a group of invasive neoplasms, with increasing incidence and dismal prognosis. In advanced disease, the standard of care is represented by first-line chemotherapy with cisplatin and gemcitabine. In subsequent lines, no clear recommendations are currently available, highlighting the nee...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2018.11.001
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment of relapsed hematological malignancies after an allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant (SCT) is challenging. Donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) from the stem cell donor is an attractive clinical option to salvage this group of patients. METHODS:We reviewed the important studies looking at d...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2010.03.004
更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for >80% of lung cancer cases and currently has an overall five-year survival rate of only 15%. Patients presenting with advanced stage NSCLC die within 18-months of diagnosis. Metastatic spread accounts for >70% of these deaths. Thus elucidation of the mechanistic basis of ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2013.10.001
更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The role of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with stage III colon cancer is now well established and 5-FU/LV should be the reference regimen to which new drugs are tested against in the adjuvant setting. In stage II colon cancer, because the risk of recurrence is lower, any absolute benefit of chemotherapy is likely ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0305-7372(02)00047-6
更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An increasing number of women are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy and lactation. Women are usually advised to interrupt breastfeeding during systemic anticancer treatment for fear of serious adverse effects to the nursed infant. However, the issue is poorly addressed in the literature and very few studies have ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.10.002
更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Despite the initially high response rate to standard front-line debulking surgery followed by platinum-based chemotherapy, the relapse rate in ovarian cancer is high and many patients will recur within 6 months of completing platinum based treatment. These patients may still require further chemotherapy despite being ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.04.004
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The use of oral anticancer drugs has increased in modern oncology treatment. The move from intravenous treatments towards oral anticancer drugs has increased the patients' own responsibility to take oral anticancer drugs as being prescribed. High rates of non-adherence to oral anticancer drugs have ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.12.014
更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Resistance to tyrosine-kinase inhibitors remains an open issue in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors. The complex biology of disease in the multi-resistant setting has led a progressively growing urgency and interest in development combined or integrated therapies. This mini-review outlines...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2009.10.004
更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC) is the commonest primary liver cancer (80-90%) and represents the leading cause of cancer-related death, after lung and stomach cancer. The process of neoplastic transformation proceeds through the accumulation of mutations in the genes governing cell proliferat...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2010.08.001
更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Nowadays, cancer has been a frequent disease, and the first or second most common cause of death worldwide. Despite a better understanding of the biology of cancer cells, the therapy of most cancers has not significantly changed for the past four decades. It is because conventional chemotherapies and/or radiation ther...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.10.004
更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Overall survival is considered the best endpoint for clinical trials, but it is difficult to use in phase-2 studies. Although the reduction of PSA after cytotoxic chemotherapy has been identified as a valid surrogate for overall survival, it has not proven reliable for...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.03.008
更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on the comparative efficacy of fulvestrant and other endocrine treatments are inconsistent. Clinical markers predictive of greater benefit from fulvestrant compared to the alternate endocrine agents have not been identified. METHODS:We searched the literature from inception to May 2015, using MEDLINE, ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2016.02.004
更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Metastatic breast cancer is ultimately an incurable disease, although recent data have shown that its incidence is decreasing and that patients with metastatic breast cancer live longer. This improvement in survival seems to be linked with the introduction of new therapeutic agents, novel combinations of existing ther...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2009.10.001
更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Pancreatic cancer retains a poor prognosis among the gastrointestinal cancers and remains a challenge in oncology. In 1997, gemcitabine became the standard of care in metastatic setting. In the last decades, despite a number of clinical trials assessing novel cytotoxic agents and cell signaling inhibitors, overall sur...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2008.10.002
更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for breast cancer is evolving and subsequent adjuvant systemic treatment is mainly based on the presence of the Estrogen (ER) receptor, Progesterone (PR) receptor and Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor 2 (HER2) status on the core needle biopsy prior to treatment. It is not well known...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2010.11.006
更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Immunotherapy represents a major breakthrough in cancer therapy in recent years. Immune-checkpoint blockade using PD-1 and PD-L1 antibodies appears to be one of the most promising immunotherapy approaches. Immunotherapy differs from conventional cancer treatment because of its ability to produce durable responses in s...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2015.09.004
更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Although surgery provides excellent control for localized prostate cancer, pathologic examination of more than one-third of specimens will reveal positive surgical margins, seminal vesicle invasion, and/or extracapsular extension, thus putting these patients at increased risk of cancer recurrence. "Adjuvant" radiother...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2010.07.001
更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Differentiated thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, and its incidence has been rising rapidly over the past 10 years. Although most patients with this disease have an excellent prognosis, a subset develops a more aggressive disease phenotype refractory to conventional therapies. Until recently, ther...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2015.06.002
更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastric cancer remains a major health problem worldwide. Treatment of advanced gastric cancer is controversial and there is no standard regimen for first- or second-line chemotherapy (CT). This review aims to give an overview of the hot topics concerning treatment, prognostic factors and new strategies in ad...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.09.007
更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) is an important therapeutic option for somatostatin receptor (SSTR) positive metastatic and/or inoperable neuroendocrine tumours (NETs). However, in patients with poorly controlled carcinoid syndrome, it may lead to an acute flare of carcinoid symptoms or even carcinoid cri...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2018.03.002
更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Tissue hypoxia occurs where there is an imbalance between oxygen supply and consumption. Hypoxia occurs in solid tumours as a result of an inadequate supply of oxygen, due to exponential cellular proliferation and an inefficient vascular supply. It is an adverse prognostic indicator in cancer as it is associated with ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0305-7372(03)00003-3
更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Attribution of adverse events (AEs) is critical to oncology drug development and the regulatory process. However, processes for determining the causality of AEs are often sub-optimal, unreliable, and inefficient. Thus, we conducted a toxicity-attribution workshop in Silver Springs MD to develop guidance for improving ...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2019.04.004
更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This review summarizes emerging information regarding the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway during neoplastic transformation in the gastrointestinal tract. Although there is a role for the well-established canonical pathway in which Hedgehog ligands interact with their receptor Patched, there is sufficient evidence that...
journal_title：Cancer treatment reviews
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ctrv.2013.08.003
更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00
