Liquid biopsy for early detection of lung cancer.

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Early trials of high-dose therapy with autologous stem cell transplantation in mantle cell lymphoma were discouraging, with no clear survival advantage attributable to the procedure. Most early series were plagued by small numbers, retrospective designs, and short follow-up. Also, until recently, allo...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Jacobsen E,Freedman A

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:AIDS-related malignancies are an ongoing cause of mortality in individuals with HIV infection. In the HIV-negative setting, high-dose chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation is an option for patients with hematologic malignancies. Prior to the advent of effective HIV therapy, stem cell transplantati...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Krishnan A,Forman SJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bladder cancer is a common and chemotherapy-responsive tumor, related to tobacco smoking, environmental arsenic exposure, industrial dye exposure, and parasitic schistosomiasis exposure. Both reduction of carcinogen exposure and chemoprevention, possibly with cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitors, should reduce the incidence. T...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Patton SE,Hall MC,Ozen H

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Management of the epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) remains a therapeutic challenge, with continued poor overall survival (OS). Given low chemotherapy response rates for recurrent disease and short survival times, new treatment options with improved therapeutic indices for targeting cancer's vulnerabili...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Ratner ES,Sartorelli AC,Lin ZP

更新日期：2012-09-01 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

authors： Mitsuyasu RT

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of highly sensitive and specific assays to detect residual disease in patients with acute leukemia should provide a basis for optimizing therapy and maximizing each patient's chance of cure. Strategies for detecting residual disease are based on biologic properties that allow acute leukemia cells to be disting...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Baer MR

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To describe the state-of-the-art of the surgical management of stage IIIA-N2 nonsmall cell lung cancer. RECENT FINDINGS:When completely resected, occult N2 found at thoracotomy, skip metastases, and single-level N2 in selected locations are reported to portend acceptable survival rates. Conversely, p...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Rocco G

更新日期：2009-03-01 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

authors： Dees EC,Kennedy MJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The treatment of HIV infection has been transformed by the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy. For patients who respond and can tolerate lifelong therapy, HIV infection may become a chronic disease requiring long-term ambulatory care follow-up. The current management of antiretrovira...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Kalkut G

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:The preclinical and clinical investigations of therapeutic approaches to melanoma have progressed significantly in the past year. This article reviews recently published information relevant to preclinical studies of the biologic function of stromal tissue, growth factors (and receptors), interferons, cytokines, and a...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Kirkwood JM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New data continue to refine our knowledge of systemic therapy for breast cancer. These include the third Oxford Overview on adjuvant systemic therapy, a small advantage of anthracycline regimens over CMF (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil), and renewed interest in the "classic CMF" regimen. Primary ch...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Wolff AC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, recent advances in the clinical therapy of osteosarcoma, including results from the European Osteosarcoma Intergroup trial demonstrating the efficacy of a short intensive two drug protocol are discussed as well the evolving role of ifosfamide. Biologically, the area of interest on chromosome 3q, which ...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Himelstein BP

更新日期：1998-07-01 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

authors： Sun JM,Park K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:T-cell lymphomas (TCL) represent a particularly poor prognosis subgroup of lymphomas. The goal of this review is to provide emerging information on one agent demonstrating activity in these challenging diseases. Pralatrexate is a novel antifolate designed to have high affinity for the reduced folate c...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： O'Connor OA

更新日期：2006-11-01 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:In the present review, we summarize the recent developments in the management of germ cell tumors (GCTs). RECENT FINDINGS:Treatment-related acute and late-onset toxicity remains a key challenge in the management of GCTs, with recent evidence showing that the adverse health outcomes of etoposide and c...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Chahoud J,Zhang M,Shah A,Lin SH,Pisters LL,Tu SM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:A number of clinical trials are currently testing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered T cells for the treatment of haematologic malignancies and selected solid tumours, and CD19-CAR-T cells have produced impressive clinical responses in B-cell malignancies. Here, we su...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Arcangeli S,Mestermann K,Weber J,Bonini C,Casucci M,Hudecek M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past year, several research areas have been noteworthy. This article discusses several reports on psychiatric morbidity and psychological factors of breast cancer, quality-of-life issues related to breast cancer treatment, and psychological factors in breast cancer screening. An area of increasing interest in...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Stefanek ME

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which usually presents as mycosis fungoides or Sézary syndrome, remains a mostly incurable, yet highly treatable group of diseases. The myriad of active therapies continues to grow, and new insights into the mechanism of systemic and topical therapies are being elucidated. Multimodality trea...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Kaplan EH,Leslie WT

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent efforts have been directed at identifying and characterizing candidate tumor suppressor genes and the activities of oncogenes in primary brain tumors. The p53 gene mapping to region p13 of chromosome 17 has several characteristics as a tumor suppressor gene. The wild-type p53 protein, which is a transcriptional...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Steck PA,Saya H

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of prostate cancer reflects complex interactions among environmental and genetic factors. Recent advances suggest molecular mechanisms that may explain geographic and ethnic variations in prostate cancer incidence, and understanding of molecular disease progression is advancing rapidly. Clinically, th...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Small EJ,Reese DM

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of skin lesions in patients with occult or obvious malignancy may be of extreme value in the detection and management of cancer because the skin is readily accessible to examination and biopsy. Examination of the skin of our patients can provide important insights into underlying malignant processes or ...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Sabir S,James WD,Schuchter LM

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Myxoid/round cell liposarcoma (MRCL) represents about 10% of all soft-tissue sarcomas. Therapeutic options for this subgroup of tumours are limited, essentially doxorubicin-based regimens and trabectedin. Recently, the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway has been identified as a therapeutic t...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Sanfilippo R,Dei Tos AP,Casali PG

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstruction of the superior vena cava is seldom a true emergency and should not be treated without an adequate tissue diagnosis. For patients who are poor operative risks for invasive procedures, percutaneous biopsies of mediastinal masses under ultrasound guidance have resulted in a high diagnostic yield. Superior ve...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： Shepherd FA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma of the uterine corpus is the most common malignancy in the female pelvis. Surgical resection and staging are now the accepted approach to therapy, with excellent survival compared with other gynecologic malignancies. Several controversies exist, however, regarding optimal surgical management. Some of these c...

journal_title：Current opinion in oncology

authors： McAlpine JN,Spirtos NM,Chen MD

更新日期：2002-09-01 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

authors： Leone G,Fianchi L,Voso MT

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00