Abstract:
PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review is intended to highlight the clinical application of molecular pathology as a tool for diagnostic accuracy and prognostic and predictive use and finally to discover novel molecular therapeutic targets. RECENT FINDINGS:We are living an exciting era in sarcomas' therapy. This is the result of overcoming two crucial obstacles: lack of effective and specific drugs; lack of specific therapeutic regimen for distinct clinical entities. As new specific drugs have become available, it has become clear that an accurate diagnosis is the prerequisite for a specific therapy. This approach has been successfully applied to gastrointestinal stromal tumor and is now also being used in other sarcomas. The more recent findings are hereby reviewed. SUMMARY:The inclusion of the molecular pathology in the diagnostic surgical pathology is instrumental for the application of molecularly tailored therapy. However, the degree of complexity of this approach requires additional caution in the data interpretation and in the reproducibility of the results. As molecular knowledge is improving and more sophisticated and powerful techniques are going to be routinely used, the success rate in treating sarcomas is expected to significantly increase.
journal_name
Curr Opin Oncoljournal_title
Current opinion in oncologyauthors
Romeo S,Dei Tos APdoi
10.1097/CCO.0b013e328347b9besubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-07-01 00:00:00pages
379-84issue
4eissn
1040-8746issn
1531-703Xjournal_volume
23pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Breast cancer remains a worldwide public health concern despite the fact that mortality rates have been declining in some countries as a result of improvements in adjuvant therapy and screening for breast cancer. In the prevention arena, advances in our understanding of the effects of tamoxifen have led to the investi...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-200111000-00002
更新日期:2001-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The management of febrile neutropenia has evolved significantly with the development of risk stratification and recognition of the efficacy of oral antibiotics in low-risk patients. There remains uncertainty concerning the need for hospitalization and role of early hospital discharge. We review recent...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e3281214436
更新日期:2007-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Renal cell carcinoma remains a challenge for oncologists, with only 20% of patients being cured by surgical removal of the involved kidney and a handful of patients with advanced disease being cured by surgery, immunotherapy, or both. Although advances in early detection, recognition of high-risk groups, and chemother...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-199405000-00013
更新日期:1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Oral mucositis remains a frequent debilitating toxicity associated with drug and radiation regimens used to treat cancer. This review highlights the recent understanding of the biological basis, risk factors for, and management for oral mucositis. RECENT FINDINGS:Prevalence and incidence data for muc...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0000000000000180
更新日期:2015-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-199803000-00003
更新日期:1998-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0000000000000535
更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Although outcomes for patients with follicular lymphoma have improved with chemoimmunotherapy, the disease remains incurable. There is a wide variation in survival, and although the Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index helps to risk-stratify patients, there is a need for robust biomarker...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e32833d5938
更新日期:2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::During the past year there have been a number of important advances in the area of systemic therapy for breast cancer. Combined chemoendocrine therapy has been shown to be more effective than tamoxifen alone in the adjuvant therapy of node-negative estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Preliminary results of a ran...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-199811000-00007
更新日期:1998-11-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-200211000-00004
更新日期:2002-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The vast majority of adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) now achieve remission with current intensive chemotherapy regimens. Nevertheless, most adults with ALL will eventually relapse and die of their disease. Specific clinical and molecular-cytogenetic prognostic factors have been identified that are begin...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-200101000-00004
更新日期:2001-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Melanoma has proven resistant to most available chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Despite a range of different biochemical targets, most agents kill cancer cells by induction of apoptosis. RECENT FINDINGS:Investigation of this process has provided insights into the resistance mechanisms in cancer cells...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.cco.0000208794.24228.9f
更新日期:2006-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this review is to update knowledge on therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (t-MN), taking into account the new 2008 WHO classification, new genome-wide approaches for the definition of susceptibility towards t-MN and the introduction of new more aggressive treatments in cancer patients. R...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e32834bcc2a
更新日期:2011-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Vandetanib is a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor that has been recently approved as an 'orphan drug' for the treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). RECENT FINDINGS:MTC is a neuroendocrine malignancy frequently associated with m...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e32835a42b9
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Phosphatases are regulatory enzymes that antagonize the action of kinases within the cell. An understanding of the contribution of kinases to cancer has emerged during the past two decades; however, our understanding of phosphatases in cancer has lagged behind. Currently, three phosphatases have been implicated in the...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-199801000-00014
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:An overview of many of the preclinical and clinical developments in germ cell tumors over the past year is presented. RECENT FINDINGS:Recent epidemiologic studies show changes in the ethnic incidence of germ cell tumors; in particular, African-Americans have seen an increase. Additionally, risk facto...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.cco.0000219257.37843.ca
更新日期:2006-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The review aims at comprehensively discussing our current knowledge on bone metastases incidence in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), their related complications as well as clinical impact in patients suffering from advanced disease. RECENT FINDINGS:After evoking the use of zoledronic acid as the e...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e32835d720b
更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this article will be to review neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) of the gynaecological tract. NETs are generally considered to be uncommon and primary tumours in the gynaecological tract on arrival rare or very rare. It is important to distinguish true primary tumours from metastatic as the...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0000000000000321
更新日期:2016-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Kaposi sarcoma (KS), an unusual tumor of vascular origin, was one of the first recognized manifestations of AIDS. In the past few years, it has become clear that human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) is critical to the development of KS in the setting of immunosuppression, such as that seen with HIV infection. Other genetic and...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-200003000-00013
更新日期:2000-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This article reviews the potential benefit of maintenance therapy for patients with follicular lymphoma. RECENT FINDINGS:Follicular lymphoma, despite substantial improvements in survival, is usually incurable. Several randomized studies have shown that the combination of anti-CD20 and chemotherapy ca...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e3283490515
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The management of tumors arising from or, by extension, involving the skull base is complex due to the density and sensitivity of nearby neurovascular structures, the proximity of these structures to the relatively contaminated spaces of the paranasal sinuses or ear and mastoid, the varied pathologic entities encounte...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-199505000-00002
更新日期:1995-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Prevention of infectious complications of chemotherapy-induced granulocytopenia is a major issue in preventive medicine, as febrile neutropenia is still associated with an overall 10% mortality and extensive morbidity and cost. RECENT FINDINGS:The prescription of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 社论,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e32832c9651
更新日期:2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Relapse has become the leading cause of death following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Despite improved understanding of the biology that underlies the graft-versus-leukemia/tumor effect the relapse rate did not decrease over the past 20 years. In general, prognosis is poor...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e328342c6c8
更新日期:2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The most common mechanism of resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is acquisition of the T790M gatekeeper mutation. Third-generation EGFR TKIs irreversibly inhibit EGFR mutants (EGFRm), especially T790M, while sparing wild-type EGFR. There are several ...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0000000000000350
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mucosal injury due to ionizing radiation or cytotoxic agents begins with damage to stem cells in the basal epithelium, progresses as these cells are depleted, and is complicated by inflammation and superimposed infection. Suppression of oral and pharyngeal infection, cytokine stimulation of neutrophils, and protection...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-199709030-00009
更新日期:1997-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this study is to update the reader on advances in postpubertal male germ cell tumours (GCTs) over the last 18 months. RECENT FINDINGS:Single nucleotide polymorphisms, including in four sex-determination genes, have been identified as additional genetic susceptibility loci to testicular...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0000000000000179
更新日期:2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The last decade has seen a paradigm change in that tumor stroma contributes to malignant tumor progression in a manner comparable to genetic and epigenetic changes within cancer cells. This review summarizes recent novel insights into how inflammatory conditions stimulate the formation and expansion o...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e32831bed7e
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Over the past year, a number of important papers have appeared in the medical literature dealing with the chemotherapeutic management of gynecologic cancers. Among these papers, several studies have again demonstrated the superiority of platinum-based chemotherapy regimens for ovarian cancer compared with non-platinum...
journal_title:Current opinion in oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-199210000-00019
更新日期:1992-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-200105000-00007
更新日期:2001-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-199701000-00015
更新日期:1997-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00001622-200205000-00013
更新日期:2002-05-01 00:00:00