Remission induction in adult acute lymphocytic leukemia. Use of vincristine and prednisone alone.

abstract：:This report describes 11 adults with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who presented with symptoms caused by large mediastinal masses. Patients with lymphoblastic lymphoma were excluded from this analysis. Most of the patients were young women with localized disease at presentation. Ten tumors were diffuse large cell ("histiocyt...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Trump DL,Mann RB

更新日期：1982-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This review was done to assess the outcomes and patterns of recurrence in a group of patients with Stage III endometrial carcinoma that might help guide adjuvant therapy. METHODS:A retrospective review was performed of 105 patients treated from 1970-1990 at three institutions. All patients underwent abdomin...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Greven KM,Lanciano RM,Corn B,Case D,Randall ME

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim was to determine the long-term outcome for patients with FIGO stage IV epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) treated with intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy after second-look assessment. METHODS:By using data from a retrospective cohort of 433 patients who received IP therapy after second-look assessmen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zivanovic O,Barakat RR,Sabbatini PJ,Brown CL,Konner JA,Aghajanian CA,Abu-Rustum NR,Levine DA

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, there is very low-quality evidence available regarding benefit of surgical resection of the primary tumor (SRPT), in patients with stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC). In the absence of randomization, the reported benefit may reflect selection of younger and healthier patients with good performance s...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ahmed S,Leis A,Fields A,Chandra-Kanthan S,Haider K,Alvi R,Reeder B,Pahwa P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 702 patients with clinically positive nodes associated with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, supraglottic larynx, and hypopharynx observed from 1954 to 1968 was done. The policies of treatment for the neck were not standardized during those years. Three hundred eleven patients who s...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jesse RH,Fletcher GH

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) including polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and myelofibrosis, are faced with oppressive symptom profiles that compromise daily functioning and quality of life. Among these symptoms, sexuality-related symptoms have emerged as particularly prominen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Geyer HL,Andreasson B,Kosiorek HE,Dueck AC,Scherber RM,Martin KA,Butler KA,Harrison CN,Radia DH,Cervantes F,Kiladjian JJ,Reiter A,Birgegard G,Passamonti F,Senyak Z,Vannucchi AM,Paoli C,Xiao Z,Samuelsson J,Mesa RA

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hanford Tribal Service Program offers technical assistance and health education to American Indian tribes in an area reported to be affected by radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which was developed and operated by the United States federal government. This article describes strategies used ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jensen RA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1977, 29 patients with inoperable non-small cell lung carcinoma due to locally far-advanced disease underwent lung resection after receiving two to eight courses of chemotherapy. After the surgery was performed, three additional courses of chemotherapy were given. The overall median survival from onset of the che...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Takita H,Regal AM,Antkowiak JG,Rao UN,Botsoglou NK,Lane WW

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nineteen patients with Ewing sarcoma of bone, each younger than 3 years of age at the time of initial presentation, are reported. These children represent an unusually young age group for documented Ewing sarcoma and represent 2.6% of all patients registered in the Intergroup Ewing's Sarcoma Study (IESS). M...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Maygarden SJ,Askin FB,Siegal GP,Gilula LA,Schoppe J,Foulkes M,Kissane JM,Nesbit M

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant lymphomas with multilobated nuclei are rare, recently recognized neoplasms of the immune system initially thought to be of T-cell type. Reported is a case of large cell lymphoma with multilobated nuclei in which immunologic marker studies demonstrated that the neoplastic cells had characteristics of B-lympho...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Parfrey NA,Mann RB,Selonick SE,Beschorner WE

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite growing evidence and support for shared decision making, little is known about the experiences of parents who hold more active roles than they wish. METHODS:This was a prospective cohort study of 372 parents of children with cancer and their oncologists at 2 academic pediatric hospitals. Parents wer...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sisk BA,Kang TI,Goldstein R,DuBois JM,Mack JW

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cell DNA (ploidy) content was measured prospectively in samples from 320 patients resected for colorectal cancer with a minimum follow-up time of 2 years. All patients were followed and those with recurrence were investigated carefully. There was no correlation between tumors with an abnormal cellular DNA conten...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Armitage NC,Ballantyne KC,Sheffield JP,Clarke P,Evans DF,Hardcastle JD

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the accuracy of mammographically guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) for the diagnosis of nonpalpable breast lesions in a series of 71 patients. Each mammographically guided FNA was immediately followed by hookwire localization and open biopsy. Seven malignancies were identified cytologically, but t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Layfield LJ,Parkinson B,Wong J,Giuliano AE,Bassett LW

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female genital tract involvement by hematologic neoplasms is uncommon and is usually associated with disseminated disease. Lymphoid neoplasms, which involve the cervix and uterus primarily, are usually of either diffuse large cell or small cleaved cell type, and rarely Burkitt's (small non-cleaved) lymphoma or granulo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zutter MM,Gersell DJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To optimize the prognostic value of DNA flow cytometry in breast cancer the authors calculated several parameters from the DNA histogram, including the DNA index, the size and number of aneuploid peaks as well as S-phase and G2/M-phase cell cycle fractions. Of these, DNA index and S-phase fraction (SPF) proved to be t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kallioniemi OP,Blanco G,Alavaikko M,Hietanen T,Mattila J,Lauslahti K,Lehtinen M,Koivula T

更新日期：1988-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factors that could optimize the management of pediatric spinal cord astrocytoma remain unclear and controversial. METHODS:To determine the factors that influence the prognosis of pediatric patients with spinal cord astrocytomas, a series of 73 consecutive patients at 13 French treatment centers with histolo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bouffet E,Pierre-Kahn A,Marchal JC,Jouvet A,Kalifa C,Choux M,Dhellemmes P,Guérin J,Tremoulet M,Mottolese C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progress in the treatment of pancreatic cancer in the past several decades has been very modest. Several new agents with activity against this disease have been identified. Of these, gemcitabine appears to be the most promising when used in combination with other drugs. Gemcitabine and cisplatin combinations have been...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Philip PA

更新日期：2002-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This clinicopathologic study concerns 27 cases of "dedifferentiated" soft tissue sarcoma (DSTS), including 14 liposarcomas, six leiomyosarcomas, five chondrosarcomas, and two rhabdomyosarcomas. In addition, the authors conducted an immunohistochemical survey of 23 cases and an electron microscopic examination of three...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hashimoto H,Daimaru Y,Tsuneyoshi M,Enjoji M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The measurement of estrogen receptors (ER) in breast cancer specimens has traditionally been assessed with a dextran-coated charcoal assay (DCCA). More recently the immunohistochemical staining (IHC) method has gained increasing popularity because of its ability to use fixed tissue, assess needle biopsies, a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Alberts SR,Ingle JN,Roche PR,Cha SS,Wold LE,Farr GH Jr,Krook JE,Wieand HS

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During a population-based local cancer registry, a peculiar type of T-cell lymphoma restricted to the gastrointestinal tract was found in patients living in southwestern Japan. METHODS:Five cases of gastrointestinal (GI) tract T-cell lymphoma were analyzed with immunohistologic examination, ultrastructural ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tokunaga O,Watanabe T,Shimamoto Y,Tokudome S

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) are increasingly likely to have received a novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor (NTKI) after failing imatinib mesylate. It is unknown whether the use of these NTKIs before HSCT increases transplant-rel...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jabbour E,Cortes J,Kantarjian H,Giralt S,Andersson BS,Giles F,Shpall E,Kebriaei P,Champlin R,de Lima M

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven patients with superficial spreading or nodular melanoma of the head and neck treated with irradiation are reviewed. Twenty-one patients were referred within three months of surgery. Six had an incisional biopsy followed by postoperative irradiation, 4 were locally controlled (1 dying of metastatic melanom...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Harwood AR,Dancuart F,Fitzpatrick PJ,Brown T

更新日期：1981-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A summary is presented of those organ specific enzyme assays traditionally used in evaluation of the patient with cancer. In addition, the use of certain serum enzymes such as gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, phosphohexose isomerase or 5'-nucleotidase as aids in following the course of the disease, particularly in patie...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schwartz MK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although training programs exist in both medical oncology and geriatrics (approved by the American Board of Internal Medicine), neither is adequate to ensure an appropriate supply of physicians to assume a leadership role in the treatment of the increasing number of geriatric patients who have or will develop a malign...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bennett JM,Sahasrabudhe DM,Hall WJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three adult patients (ages greater than 15 years) and 75 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia were treated with similar intensive, sequential cytotoxic protocols (L-2). The adult patients have lower remission rate (78%) than the children (98%). The duration of remission and the length of survival are also...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gee TS,Haghbin M,Dowling MD,Cunningham I,Middleman MP,Clarkson BD

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the small number of cases (five) reported between 1929 and 1969 and a significant increase reported in the decade of the 1970s, the Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry was established in 1981 to study the occurrence of familial ovarian cancer in the United States. METHODS:Any woman (with or without ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Piver MS,Baker TR,Jishi MF,Sandecki AM,Tsukada Y,Natarajan N,Mettlin CJ,Blake CA

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the characteristic histopathologic appearance of alveolar soft-part sarcoma (ASPS), its histogenesis remains unclear, and cytogenetic analysis of ASPS is limited to eight cases so far because of the extreme rarity of this disease. METHODS:The authors document a cytogenetic study of a primary case of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Joyama S,Ueda T,Shimizu K,Kudawara I,Mano M,Funai H,Takemura K,Yoshikawa H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence and staining patterns of Concanavalin A (Con A) binding histiocytes were studied in diagnostic lymph node specimens of 133 patients with Hodgkin's disease. Varying numbers of Con A binding histiocytes were present in all tumors. Two distinct cytoplasmic staining patterns of the Con A binding histiocytes...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ree HJ,Crowley JP

更新日期：1983-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) usually appears with solitary skin lesions, in a large percentage of these patients the disease progresses eventually to involve large extensive segments of the skin. In the past, the most frequently used approach is the irradiation of isolated lesions as they arose, hence the so-called ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nisce LZ,Safai B,Poussin-Rosillo H

更新日期：1981-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) plays a critical role in angiogenesis during vascular development. The authors tested the hypothesis that HIF-1 expression correlates with progression and angiogenesis in brain tumors. METHODS:The authors investigated the expression of the HIF-1alpha and HIF-1beta subunits...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zagzag D,Zhong H,Scalzitti JM,Laughner E,Simons JW,Semenza GL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00