Myelodysplastic syndromes: a review of therapeutic progress over the past 10 years.

abstract：:The characterization of the mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) entity had a major impact on patient management and has played a profound role in improving therapy. Although the prognosis is improving in MCL, there is no definitive proof that the therapies currently available will lead to cure. Few randomized studies have been...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Camara-Clayette V,Hermine O,Ribrag V

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer immunotherapy aims at eliciting an immune response directed against tumor antigens to help fight off residual tumor cells and, thereby, improve the survival and quality of life of cancer patients. Different immunotherapeutic approaches share the use of dendritic cells (DCs) to present tumor-associated antigens ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Tyagi RK,Mangal S,Garg N,Sharma PK

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) involves delivery of image-guided, ablative radiation doses to planning treatment volume(s) using sophisticated dosimetric planning and target localization. Early on, clinical investigators pursued SBRT for the treatment of early stage non-small-cell lung cancer, lung and liv...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Mayr NA,Huang Z,Sohn JW,Lo SS,Teh BS,Lu JJ,Grecula JC,Kunos C

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sophia Maprayil, Commissioning Editor for Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy, talks to Dr Iain Frame, Director of Research for Prostate Cancer UK. Iain is Prostate Cancer UK's first Director of Research, responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the charity's ambitious new research strategy. He...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Frame I,Maprayil S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymph node dissection in bladder cancer is an integral part of radical cystectomy. It allows for accurate staging of the patient and will, therefore, serve to dictate additional treatment and add prognostic information. The issue of what is an adequate lymphadenectomy as to the extent and boundaries of the operation, ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Ghavamian R,Hakimi AA

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Dietary factors and other naturally occurring substances may emerge as potent therapeutic or preventative agents in the battle against prostate cancer. Much of the current support for these agents is epidemiologically based, but new prospective studies are now underway which may support their use in conventional medic...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Ward JF,Blute ML

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, in particular filgrastim, in clinical use more than 10 years ago made a significant impact on the management of neutropenia and its complications. More recently, the application of pegylation technology has created a second-generation molecule, pegfilgrastim, with s...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Ng R,Green MD

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer frequently presents late, when chances for long-term survival are poor. The increased survival advantage for patients diagnosed with early-stage ovarian cancer suggests that screening to detect early-stage disease might have an impact on disease mortality. Attempts are being made to develop effective sc...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Lewis S,Menon U

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) are advanced radiotherapy delivery techniques that allow for the delivery of high-dose per fraction radiation. Advances in imaging technology and intensity modulation have allowed SRS and SBRT to be used for the treatment of tumors in close prox...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Jain AK,Yamada YJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The year 2006 will mark a turning point in the daily management of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. The impact of immunotherapy with interferon-alpha or interleukin-2 has been shown to be restricted to a minority of patients. The growing understanding of molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Pouessel D,Culine S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of colorectal cancers is rising worldwide and pulmonary metastases were seen in approximately 10-15% of all patients. Surgical metastasectomy is a widely accepted procedure in selected patients and is considered as the only curative option in patients with secondary pulmonary malignancy. But surgical res...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Limmer S,Unger L

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the advent of rationally designed targeted antineoplastic therapies, cladribine was identified as a lymphocyte-specific cytotoxic agent. Cladribine is a purine nucleoside analogue that is resistant to cellular catabolism. Through diverse mechanisms, cladribine is equally toxic to dividing and nondividing cells,...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Sigal DS,Saven A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced gastric cancer (GC) is a dreadful disease with a poor prognosis and the majority of patients die within 1 year of diagnosis. In the past decade, important signaling pathways promoting tumor proliferation and aggressiveness have been evaluated; the hepatocyte growth factor/mesenchymal epithelial transition (ME...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Abdel-Rahman O

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens are involved in numerous physiological processes and have crucial roles in certain disease states, such as mammary carcinomas. Estradiol, the most potent endogenous estrogen, is biosynthesized from androgens by the cytochrome P450 enzyme complex called aromatase. Aromatase is found in breast tissue and the i...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Brueggemeier RW

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional diagnostic imaging technique that provides very different information from that obtainable with other imaging modalities. The most widely used radiotracer is F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), which is an analog of glucose. The FDG uptake in cells is directly propor...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Kumar R,Chauhan A,Vellimana AK,Chawla M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-related anorexia/cachexia syndrome is a complex phenomenon in which metabolic abnormalities, proinflammatory cytokines produced by the host immune system, circulating tumor-derived catabolic factors, decreased food intake and probably additional unknown factors all play different roles. This review examines the...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Mantovani G,Macciò A,Madeddu C,Massa E

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic viruses are novel anticancer agents, currently under investigation in Phase I-III clinical trials. Until recently, most studies have focused on the direct antitumor properties of these viruses, although there is now an increasing body of evidence that the host immune response may be critical to the efficacy ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Prestwich RJ,Harrington KJ,Pandha HS,Vile RG,Melcher AA,Errington F

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In the majority of cases, multiple myeloma is a disease occurring in elderly patients. In the last decades, a major improvement in myeloma patients' outcome has been achieved with the introduction of several new drugs. However, this positive outcome was less likely to occur in elderly patients. Areas cover...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Salvini M,D'Agostino M,Bonello F,Boccadoro M,Bringhen S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia is a common and potentially debilitating complication of cancer. Darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp, Amgen) has been in routine clinical use for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia since 2002. The extended half-life of darbepoetin alfa permits less frequent and consequently more flexible dosing than other eryth...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Pirker R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) has been used in the intravesical treatment of urothelial bladder cancer (UBC) for three decades. Despite its efficacy, intravesical BCG therapy is associated with some limitations such as side effects and BCG failure, which have inspired multiple ways to improve it. Recent advances have...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Wang Y,Yang M,Yu Q,Yu L,Shao S,Wang X

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several nanoformulated anti-cancer substances are currently commercialized or under development. Pre-clinical and clinical results have revealed better properties, that is, larger efficacy and lower toxicity for these substances than for conventional anti-cancer treatments. Here, we review the development of several o...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Alphandéry E,Grand-Dewyse P,Lefèvre R,Mandawala C,Durand-Dubief M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse brain stem glioma is the most devastating of pediatric malignancies. Virtually all children with this disease die within 1-2 years of diagnosis. After three decades of exhaustive research, the key to controlling this malignancy still eludes us. Attempts to improve survival using radiation, chemotherapy and bio...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Korones DN

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although testicular cancer is currently a rare disease, the incidence is rising. The most important risk factor remains cryptorchism and there is a variable association with testicular microlithiasis. Serum tumor markers remain important for diagnosis, and they have prognostic value and can be used to monitor therapy ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Balk C,Witjes JA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, cytokine therapy has been the only validated option for patients with advanced renal cancer. IFN-alpha is one of very few treatments that have demonstrated improved median survival compared with the appropriate control. In patients with synchronous metastases at diagnosis, debulking nephrectomy prior t...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Coppin C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Metastatic prostate cancer is a life-threatening disease and an important public health concern with prevalence rates varying drastically between high- and low-income countries. Androgen-deprivation therapy alone has been the first-line treatment option for decades, temporarily controlling disease until in...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Manceau C,Mourey L,Pouessel D,Ploussard G

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 25 years, the combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone (CHOP) was considered the 'gold standard' for the treatment of aggressive lymphomas, 90% of which are diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs). After the demonstration of rituximab's single-agent activity in DLBCL, a pi...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Murawski N,Zwick C,Pfreundschuh M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current targeted strategies for cancer focus on the blockade of growth factor receptors and the inhibition of angiogenesis. The VEGF pathway has become an attractive target in multiple malignancies, including lung cancer. Bevacizumab, a monoclonal antibody against VEGF, increased survival in non-small-cell lung cancer...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Planchard D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Published data concerning primary mediastinal sarcomas are limited to small-sized retrospective series.  This study reviewed the clinical outcomes of these cases from the SEER (surveillance, epidemiology and end results) database. METHODS:Primary mediastinal sarcomas (1988 - 2013) were assembled from the SE...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Abdel-Rahman O

更新日期：2017-11-01 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