Abstract：
:During the last 50 years median survival for metastatic breast cancer has not varied and remains 2-3.5 years. To assess the clinical benefit of salvage systemic therapy a retrospective analysis of metastatic breast cancer patients all homogeneously treated with a commonly used first-line anthacycline-containing cytotoxic regimen (FEC) was undertaken. The 140 patients in this report were among 375 entered in two consecutive multicenter randomized trials carried out from Dec. 1983 to Jan. 1990. All patients died during follow-up. Median number of salvage therapies was 3 (range 1-7). Response rate (CR and PR) was 41% with FEC and 7%, 3%, 15%, 0%, 14%, 0%, 0% in patients receiving salvage treatment line 1 to 7, respectively. Time to treatment failure (TTF) was 7.5 months for FEC and 3.5, 2.5, 2.1, 1.6, 2.1, 1.1, 1.6 months at first to seventh salvage treatment, respectively. Only a very small fraction of patients receiving first-line FEC respond to subsequent palliative treatment. The advantages of salvage therapy are unclear and must be weighed against the inconvenience, cost and morbidity of treatment. After first salvage therapy, patients should be considered for randomized trials comparing systemic antineoplastic therapy with best palliative care. Endpoints of all future clinical trials in metastatic breast cancer should include measurement of quality of life and accurate, sequential measurement of symptom control.
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Anticancer Resjournal_title
Anticancer researchauthors
Campora E,Gardin G,Gasco M,Rosso R,Santi Lsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-07-01 00:00:00pages
3429-32issue
4Ceissn
0250-7005issn
1791-7530journal_volume
19pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:NMR spectroscopy was used to analyse perchloric acid extracts of normal human brain, murine brain cell cultures, glioblastoma tissue and the glioblastoma cell line U-87. 1H NMR spectra revealed the presence of elevated levels of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine and UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine in glioblastoma extracts and the gli...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated whether GM-CSF/IL-4 is the most efficient cytokine combination for differentiating dendritic cells (DC) in terms of its ability to elicit an antitumor immune response. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Two experimental models were examined: C57BL/6 mice bearing MC38 cells and Balb/c mice bearing cachexi...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Mouthwashes are widespread used to treat halitosis or minor oral infections. Adverse effects of mouthwashes were recognized, e.g. desquamation of the oral mucosa and stomatitis. The acute toxicity of mouthwashes was tested in an in vitro system, the pollen tube growth test (PTG-test). In the PTG-test the acute toxicit...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Using serum-free conditions, human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MoDCs) tend to mature insufficiently in a T(H)1-polarizing direction under approved and standardized clinical conditions. However, for the initiation of an efficient tumour antigen-specific cytotoxic T-cell response, the induction of a distinct T(H)1...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Plastins are members of a family of actin-binding proteins which exhibit a tissue-specific expression pattern. L-plastin, which is specifically expressed in hematopoietic cell lineage, has been proposed to be involved in the control of cell adhesion and motility. This protein is also frequently expressed in cell lines...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:The aim of the study was to evaluate the necessity of gastrectomy including endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) scar with margin-negative early gastric cancer (EGC). PATIENTS AND METHODS:We analyzed 83 patients with EGC who received additional gastrectomy after non-curative ESD and evaluated the risk...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.21873/anticanres.12855
更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Selective delivery of a high level of Mitomycin C (MMC) in intraperitoneal disseminated lesions was studied using a new dosage form of MMC, called MMC-CH. Intracavitary MMC-CH delivered a much higher level of MMC selectively to intraperitoneal tissues, with a much lower level of MMC in the whole body, in comparison wi...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This review focuses on the functional role and structural features of the genes involved in common hereditary cancers. Most of these tumors are sporadic and the genetic alterations responsible for their genesis take place over several cell generations; nevertheless, 5 to 10% of the human tumors are hereditary, with a ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Human vaginal malignant melanoma represents rare gynecological malignancies of poor prognosis. We have established a melanoma tumor line in nude mice, designated Mela-1, and have examined the histological and biological characteristics of this tumor. The Mela-1 tumor has preserved the histological, histochemical and b...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the study of 65 matched pairs of lung tumor tissue and normal lung parenchyma, cathepsin B (CB) activity was found to be increased about 4.6-fold, when regarding median levels. CB activity was found to be insignificantly higher in adenocarcinoma compared to the other histologic cell types. CB levels did not correla...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Several human and murine tumor cell lines were evaluated in an in vitro cytotoxicity assay as prescreens for fermentation extracts and pure materials subsequently tested in vivo against P388 leukemia or B16 melanoma. Each material, regardless of its in vitro cytotoxicity, was evaluated in vivo. At the criteria levels ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The chemotherapeutic agent retinoic acid (RA) inhibits the proliferation and invasion of many tumor types. RA chemotherapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) patients reduces recurrence and induces regression of premalignant lesions. The effects of RA are mediated by both cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins. ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:S-1 is a new oral formulation of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) containing 1 M tegafur and 0.4 M 5-chloro-2,4-dihydroxypyridine (CDHP) and 1 M potassium oxonate (Oxo). It has been reported to have a high antitumor activity and low gastrointestinal toxicity in rats bearing murine and human tumors. We further studied the possibl...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Malignant gliomas are often treated with cisplatin (cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), CDDP) and radiation but results remain unsatisfactory. To investigate whether CDDP induces radioresistance in glioma, T98G human glioblastoma cells were pretreated 5 times with 10(-6)M CDDP for 24 hours and then the sensitivity of wi...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:A woman, mother of one at the age of 19 years, was diagnosed with mammary adenocarcinoma in the right breast in 1985 at the age of 37 years. The patient underwent surgery (quadrantectomy), lymphadenectomy and radiotherapy. In 1999, an adenocarcinoma was diagnosed in the left breast, followed by adequate rese...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：UNLABELLED:In a previous report we noted that cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression in clinical colorectal cancer is closely related to liver metastasis and survival. The aim of the present study was to clarify the role of COX-2 in liver metastasis and to examine the potential for a selective COX-2 inhibitor as a novel t...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:CPT-11 is a derivative of camptothecin, a topoisomerase-I inhibitor with marked cytotoxic activity. We examined the cytotoxicity of CPT-11 and its metabolite SN-38 for primary gastrointestinal carcinoma and various recurrent carcinomas which were cultured on contact-sensitive plates (CSPs). The response rate of seven ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The in vitro antioxidative activity of benzylideneascorbate (SBA) and the in vivo effect on adriamycin (ADR)-induced cardiotoxicity in a mouse model were investigated. The radical-scavenging activity of SBA was assayed in terms of reduction of chemiluminescence induced by O2-, generated in xanthine/xanthine oxidase an...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) remains a major complication after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), and the prognosis of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) after PD is poor. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A multi-institutional retrospective study was performed in 174 patients who underwent PD ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：
更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Immunohistochemical expression of p53 protein was studied in FNA specimens of 20 breast ductal carcinomas, 20 fibroadenomas and 20 atypical ductal hyperplasia of the breast. Nine cases of breast carcinomas (45%), five fibroadenomas (25%) and four atypical ductal hyperplasia (20%) were found to be p53-immuno-positive. ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Paclitaxel pharmacokinetics were shown to be related to toxicity and survival. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We evaluated the effects of time above paclitaxel concentrations of 0.05 micromol/l (T(>0.05) and systemic exposures (AUC) to total and unbound paclitaxel (tPAC, uPAC) on response in patients with advanced ca...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：
更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Laryngeal hyperkeratotic lesions can progress to fully developed malignant carcinoma in some cases. These premalignant lesions are proliferative disorders whose potential for further tumour progression is perhaps difficult to assess by mere histology. Immunostaining with PCNA, a protein correlated with cell proliferat...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Although well-acknowledged in vivo, spontaneous death of cancer cells in vitro is less widely appreciated. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Colony formation was studied in untreated control plates of standard clonogenic assays and measurements of actual and potential doubling times performed in asynchronous cultures o...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:We have shown that either chronic nicotine (NIC) exposure or 5-aza-cytidine (AZA) augments oxidative stress-dependent injury through stimulating p66shc in renal cells. Hence, NIC could exacerbate adverse effects of AZA while antioxidants such as resveratrol (RES) could prevent it. MATERIALS AND METHODS:...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.21873/anticanres.11793
更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The recent meeting of the AGMIF (Working Group for Mistletoe Therapy and Immunological Research) held in Herdecke, Germany, on October, 3rd, 1997, covered recent developments in the field of immunological and biological properties of Viscum album L., the European mistletoe, which is used for adjuvant cancer treatment....
journal_title：Anticancer research
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doi：
更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Ascaridol is the active principle of the American wormseed Chenopodium anthelminticum L. We isolated ascaridol from a commercial preparation of Chenopodium oil and analyzed its activity against different tumor cell lines in vitro (CCRF-CEM, HL60, MDA-MB-231). Multidrug-resistant (MDR) counterparts of these cell lines ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Bone only metastasis in patients with estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer reported to have favorable response to chemotherapy, favorable prognosis, and an "indolent" course. Therefore, we assessed the ability of MG-63 osteoblast-like human osteosarcoma cells (MG-63 cells) and MG-63 conditioned media (CM) to ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：UNLABELLED:The aim this study was to assess the efficacy of cisplatin-epirubicin-vinorelbine, as primary chemotherapy, in reducing the tumour burden in T2-3 N0-2 breast carcinomas. Breast conservative surgery (BCS) rate, clinical and pathological complete response (pCR), toxicity and 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：
更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Intraosseous lipoma remains a poorly-characterized tumor. In paticular, the natural course of intracalcaneus lipoma after conservative treatment and the appropriate surgical modalities are still quite controversial. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We reviewed six symptomatic patients who underwent curettage of intraca...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Ano-genital carcinoma is a polyfactorial and polygenic disease. Certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) have been detected in a high percentage of patients. It has been suggested that p53 polymorphisms may be relevant for the interaction with viral proteins that inactivates p53. MATERIALS AND METHODS:...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00
