Using Information Technology in the Assessment and Monitoring of Geriatric Oncology Patients.

abstract：:Cancer risk has become a significant research topic due to an increase in statistical risk models built to predict cancer incidence or mortality. Over the past 3 years, 15 models on the development of different types of cancer, including breast, colorectal, prostate, gastric, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, testicular, and...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Johnson CM,Smolenski D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review briefly summarizes the results of previous systemic (chemotherapy) and local (surgery and radiotherapy) treatment attempted to date for malignant mesothelioma. The prospects for newer modalities, ie molecular and biologic therapies, are also highlighted, including results of both preclinical and early clin...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Smythe WR

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Malignant gliomas result in disproportionately high morbidity and mortality compared with other primary tumors, and progression of disease is inevitable. Novel therapies to improve outcomes are needed and immune checkpoint inhibitors hold significant promise. RECENT FINDINGS:A limited body of preclin...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Tan AC,Heimberger AB,Khasraw M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric medicine is moving toward a greater appreciation that the delivery of quality medical care involves a partnership including the health care team, the child, and the family. Pediatric medicine now emphasizes the importance of information exchange among these groups. This paper discusses two models for communi...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Weidner NJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-(γ)-herpes virus lymphomas comprise a heterogenous group of B-cell and T-cell neoplasms most commonly associated with Epstein-Barr virus and rarely human herpes virus-8 infection. Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) is a unique disease entity caused by the human T-cell lymphotrophic virus, type 1 (HTLV-I), the...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Ramos JC,Lossos IS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) has unique physical properties (e.g., Bragg Peak) that limit the amount of normal tissue irradiated in the head and neck region while maximizing the radiation delivered to the tumor. Radiation therapy is commonly used in both the primary and adjuvant setting for many head and neck ...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Frank SJ,Selek U

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain metastases seem to be an almost inevitable complication in patients with metastatic melanoma. Except for the rare patients who can undergo successful surgical resection of brain metastases, current management strategies do not appear adequate and result in a poor outcome (median survival, 2-4 months). In recent ...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Majer M,Samlowski WE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is the next evolutionary step of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3-DCRT). IMRT plans are generated with computer-optimized nonuniform radiation beam intensities incident on a target or patient. The dose distributions in IMRT show significantly higher conformality compa...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Peñagarícano JA,Papanikolaou N

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflibercept (known as ziv-aflibercept in the USA and sold under the trade name Zaltrap®) is a human recombinant fusion protein with antiangiogenic effects that functions as a decoy receptor to bind vascular endothelial growth factors A and B and placental growth factor. Its unique mechanism of action with respect to o...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Ciombor KK,Berlin J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia are diagnosed at an early stage, when traditional staging systems fail to distinguish those with an aggressive disease course from those with an excellent prognosis. This failure underscores the need for better prognostic markers. Although many markers have been explored...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Jain N,Lamanna N

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has changed dramatically since the introduction of rituximab, a monoclonal antibody that binds to the B-cell transmembrane protein CD20 and causes lysis of the lymphoma cells. Since then, a number of additional antibodies have been tested against other B-cell targets, result...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Sikder MA,Friedberg JW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of patients given neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by fertility-sparing surgery in cervical cancer is still scarce. Only a few centres perform these procedures, and thus, such procedures remain largely in the experimental stage. Patients that do not fulfil the criteria for standard fertility-sparing ...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Robova H,Rob L,Halaska MJ,Pluta M,Skapa P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The calculation of noncancer-specific life expectancy can guide shared decision-making and avoid over- and undertreatment in older adults with cancer. Several factors determine life expectancy, including socio-demographic background, comorbidities, physical performance, and geriatric assessment variab...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Verduzco-Aguirre HC,Gomez-Moreno C,Chavarri-Guerra Y,Soto-Perez-de-Celis E

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Colon cancer remains the third most common cancer, and cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Greater public awareness and acceptance of screening programs have contributed significantly to increasingly earlier detection of colon cancer and decreased mortality. Advances made in the understanding of this d...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Kumar SK,Goldberg RM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The result of a lung cancer screening program should be fewer lung cancer-specific deaths in the screened population. Studies evaluating chest imaging as a screening tool for lung cancer have not shown a reduction in lung cancer-specific mortality to date. The ability of institutions using chest imaging to meet the cr...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Mazzone PJ,Mekhail T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Over the past two decades, advances have been made in understanding the pathophysiology of cancer-associated weight loss, termed "cachexia." To date, there is no proven effective intervention to completely reverse cachexia and there are no approved drug therapies to treat it. This paper will review re...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Reid J,McKeaveney C,Martin P

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common soft tissue sarcoma, and most feature abnormalities in two genes encoding the receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), KIT, and PDGFRA. The RTK inhibitor imatinib revolutionized treatment in GIST; however, drug resistance remains a challenge. Constitutive autophosph...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Patel S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no clear consensus regarding the most effective management of poor responders to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Intensifying or changing primary systemic treatment has not been shown to offer any benefit. There is a paucity of trials testing the utility of adjuvant chemotherapy in this setting. Adjuvant hormonal t...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Wesolowski R,Budd GT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siltuximab is a chimeric monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-6 (IL-6), which in the fall of 2014 became the first FDA-approved treatment of the rare disease idiopathic multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD). MCD is a non-clonal lymphoproliferative disorder in which common symptoms include fever, night sweats, we...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Davis CC,Shah KS,Lechowicz MJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic data sharing is a critical, but underappreciated, requirement for modern medical informatics systems. This capability is facilitated by acquisition of structured clinical data, but optimized only if this data is stored and transmitted using standardized representations. Most electronic medical record and cl...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Jones RB,Reeves D,Martinez CS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of non-surgical stage III and stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, we review emerging data on the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in the setting of earlier stage surgically resectable lung cancer. RECENT FINDI...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Gentzler RD,Riley DO,Martin LW

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Hodgkin's disease (HD) is strictly dependent on stage. Historically, early-stage HD included the limited stages I, II, and IIIA (according to the Cotswolds modification of the Ann Arbor classsification), whereas advanced HD included stage III with B symptoms and stage IV. It was then observed that early-s...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Josting A,Diehl V

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HER2 is a member of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family of tyrosine kinases and is involved in the growth, invasion, metastasis, and prognosis of breast cancer. The rationale for prospective trials evaluating the role of anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody therapy for patients with high-risk HER2-positive res...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Perez EA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy was traditionally perceived to be ineffective for prostate cancer and was only administered to patients with symptomatic hormone-refractory disease. Although previous reviews have confirmed this belief, recent studies have demonstrated significant antitumor activity with chemotherapy regimens. This articl...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Petrylak DP

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) consist of a heterogeneous group of rare malignancies arising from mesenchymal origin. While surgical resection is the primary treatment for STS, the use of radiotherapy (RT) as an adjunctive modality has been shown to improve oncologic outcomes. Technologic improvements, such as image guida...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Blumenfeld P,Sen N,Abrams R,Wang D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) accounts for the majority of the ovarian cancer deaths, but over the last years little improvement in overall survival has been achieved. HGSOC is a molecularly and clinically heterogeneous disease. At genomic level, it represents a C-class malignancy having frequent gene lo...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Mittempergher L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The topoisomerase I inhibitors such as irinotecan and topotecan are active agents against small-cell lung cancer that are effective in treating not only chemotherapy-naïve tumors but also progressed-stage tumors after treatment with cisplatin-based regimens, because their mechanism of antitumor activity differs from t...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Ohe Y,Saijo N

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The concept of value-based health care (VBHC) was articulated more than a decade ago. However, its clinical implementation remains an on-going process and a particularly demanding one for the domain of head and neck cancer (HNC). These cancers often present with fast growing tumors in functionally and...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Takes RP,Halmos GB,Ridge JA,Bossi P,Merkx MAW,Rinaldo A,Sanabria A,Smeele LE,Mäkitie AA,Ferlito A

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a leading cause of cancer mortality in western countries with a uniformly poor prognosis. Unfortunately, there has been little in the way of novel therapeutics for this malignancy over the last several decades. Derangements in metabolic circuitry favoring excess glycolysis...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Hosein AN,Beg MS

更新日期：2018-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The search is on for biomarkers for use in the diagnosis, staging, prognosis, and management of patients with melanoma. As with many types of cancer, the hematogenous spread of melanoma is a bad prognostic sign, and many groups have attempted to detect circulating melanoma cells in patients with different stages of me...

journal_title：Current oncology reports

authors： Kounalakis N,Goydos JS

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00