Radiation-related myocardial injury. Management of two cases.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sixty percent of patients with stage IV melanoma may develop brain metastases, which result in significantly increased morbidity and a poor overall prognosis. Phase 3 studies of melanoma usually exclude patients with untreated brain metastases; therefore, clinical data for intracranial responses to treatment...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Holbrook K,Lutzky J,Davies MA,Davis JM,Glitza IC,Amaria RN,Diab A,Patel SP,Amin A,Tawbi H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about genetic aberrations associated with development and progression of biliary tract carcinomas. METHODS:To study chromosomal aberrations associated with development and progression of biliary tract carcinomas, the authors used comparative genomic hybridization to examine 50 such carcinoma...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Shiraishi K,Okita K,Harada T,Kusano N,Furui T,Kondoh S,Oga A,Kawauchi S,Fukumoto Y,Sasaki K

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Religion and spirituality (R/S) play an important role in the daily lives of many cancer patients. There has been great interest in determining whether R/S factors are related to clinically relevant health outcomes. In this meta-analytic review, the authors examined associations between dimensions of R/S and social he...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sherman AC,Merluzzi TV,Pustejovsky JE,Park CL,George L,Fitchett G,Jim HS,Munoz AR,Danhauer SC,Snyder MA,Salsman JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past 2 decades, significant progress has been made in the field of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) regarding new imaging techniques, surgical interventions, and systemic therapy. It is not known whether the benefit from these interventions has extended overall survival (OS) within the general mC...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Golan T,Urban D,Berger R,Lawrence YR

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression profiling (GEP) has been rapidly adopted for early breast cancer and can aid in chemotherapy decision making. Study results regarding racial disparities in testing are conflicting, and may reflect different care settings. To the authors' knowledge, data regarding the influence of provider fac...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Reeder-Hayes KE,Wheeler SB,Baggett CD,Zhou X,Meng K,Roberts MC,Carey LA,Meyer AM

更新日期：2018-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytogenetics and multicolor flow cytometry (MFC) are useful tools for monitoring outcome of treatment in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, no data are available regarding the meaning of results when the 2 tests do not agree. METHODS:The authors of this report analyzed 1464 pairs of concurrent cytogenet...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fang M,Storer B,Wood B,Gyurkocza B,Sandmaier BM,Appelbaum FR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In multidisciplinary assessment clinics for screen-detected breast lesions, onsite cytopathologists provide immediate results of fine-needle aspiration biopsies (FNABs) and this information is used for patient counseling and treatment planning. Such consultation is not possible for the increasing proportion ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Farshid G,Pieterse S

更新日期：2006-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:High dose methotrexate followed by citrovorum factor reversal has been utilized in twenty-six patients with advanced cancer. Four of 10 patients with head and neck cancer had an objective response. One of 7 patients with metastatic osteosarcoma to the lungs had stabilization with twenty treatments over 23 months. One ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ambinder EP,Perloff M,Ohnuma T,Biller HF,Holland JF

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aprotinin has been used to decrease blood loss with complicated cardiac surgery but has not been investigated in extrapleural pneumonectomy, an operation that does not use cardiopulmonary bypass. In this prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial, the authors investigated whether aprotin...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Norman PH,Thall PF,Purugganan RV,Riedel BJ,Thakar DR,Rice DC,Huynh L,Qiao W,Wen S,Smythe WR

更新日期：2009-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ependymomas account for 2% of all intracranial tumors in adults. Supratentorial ependymomas are less common than their infratentorial counterparts. To the authors' knowledge to date, the predictive values of surgery, histology, and patient-related prognostic factors for these tumors remain unresolved. The au...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Metellus P,Figarella-Branger D,Guyotat J,Barrie M,Giorgi R,Jouvet A,Chinot O,Club de Neuro-Oncologie de la Société Française de Neurochirurgie and the Association des Neuro-Oncologues d'Expression Française.

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old white woman with refractory anemia subsequently developed acute myelomonocytic leukemia with paraproteinemia 12 months later. The paraprotein was characterized as immunoglobulin G, type kappa, and the Bence Jones protein as free kappa chains. Further studies, including electron microscopy, cytochemistry,...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Law IP,Koch FJ,Cannon GB,Herberman RB,Oldham RK

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the records of 104 patients with Stage T1NO or Stage T2NO epidermoid carcinoma of the supraglottic larynx treated between 1965 and 1979. In 79 patients, surgery was the only type of initial treatment. These 79 patients are the subjects of this report. Forty-eight (61%) of these patients were treated by tot...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Levendag P,Sessions R,Vikram B,Strong EW,Shah JP,Spiro R,Gerold F

更新日期：1989-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual tracer scintigraphy (DTS) (technetium 99m [99mTc] sulfur colloid and gallium 67 citrate [67 gallium citrate]) of the liver and computer subtraction studies (SS) were performed in 26 patients subsequently proven to have hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and 32 patients with cirrhosis and focal defects on the colloid ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sostre S,Villagra D,Morales NE,Rivera JV

更新日期：1988-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-nine colorectal carcinomas of patients with verified cancer family syndrome (CFS) were analyzed for DNA ploidy using flow cytometry. Sixty-eight percent of the tumors were diploid, and 32% were aneuploid. The aneuploid tumors had a median DNA index of 1.24 (range, 1.12-1.97). In 90% of all tumors the DNA index w...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kouri M,Laasonen A,Mecklin JP,Järvinen H,Franssila K,Pyrhönen S

更新日期：1990-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In 147 cases of mammary carcinoma, 388 serial mammographies were performed before final treatment. The average retrospective observation time was 27 months with a range of two months to 11 years. The number of serial mammographies per case ranged between two and 11. The tumor volume doubling times (TV); obtained by me...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： von Fournier D,Weber E,Hoeffken W,Bauer M,Kubli F,Barth V

更新日期：1980-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Case reports have associated neuroblastoma, a cancer derived from the embryonal neural crest, with aganglionosis coli and neurofibromatosis type I. The aim of the current study was to test the hypothesis that neuroblastoma is part of a global defect in neurodevelopment. METHODS:Neuropathologic findings from...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Blatt J,Hamilton RL

更新日期：1998-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To collect an unselected total bronchial carcinoma population as a basis for randomized therapy studies during 1971-1976, 537 patients with suspected bronchial carcinoma were investigated. Of these, 109 were found to have an adenocarcinoma in the lung. Of the 109, 10 had been initially diagnosed as not having adenocar...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nõu E

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to estimate the time to treatment failure and survival rate of the three-drug combination of doxorubicin, cisplatin, and ifosfamide as primary and postoperative, adjunctive treatment for teenagers and adults with osteosarcoma (OS). METHODS:Sixty-three eligible patients with n...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zalupski MM,Rankin C,Ryan JR,Lucas DR,Muler J,Lanier KS,Budd GT,Biermann JS,Meyers FJ,Antman K

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The delivery of effective treatment for pediatric solid tumors poses a particular challenge to centers in middle-income countries (MICs) that already are vigorously addressing pediatric cancer. The objective of this study was to improve the current understanding of barriers to effective treatment of pediatri...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Friedrich P,Ortiz R,Fuentes S,Gamboa Y,Ah Chu-Sanchez MS,Arambú IC,Montero M,Báez F,Rodríguez-Galindo C,Antillón-Klussmann F,Central American Association of Pediatric Hematologists and Oncologists (AHOPCA).

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of case-control studies was conducted to investigate cancer risks among farmers. These studies were based on Missouri Cancer Registry data for 15,000 white male patients, including 1720 subjects classified as farmers, registered between 1984 and 1988. For each cancer site, all other cancer registrations forme...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brownson RC,Reif JS,Chang JC,Davis JR

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The individual medical histories in the files of the Oxford Record Linkage Study for the years 1963 to 1967 were analyzed to ascertain any previously unsuspected associations between cancers of the large bowel and other diseases in individuals, and to quantify the relative risks of disorders already known to be associ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Adelstein P,Baldwin JA,Fedrich J

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) experience higher morbidity and mortality from primary liver cancer than other United States (US) populations, but racial misclassification in medical records results in underestimates of disease burden. METHODS:To reduce misclassification, National Program of Can...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jim MA,Perdue DG,Richardson LC,Espey DK,Redd JT,Martin HJ,Kwong SL,Kelly JJ,Henderson JA,Ahmed F

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors examined the "real-world" effectiveness of rituximab (R) maintenance therapy (R-maintenance) compared with observation after R-based induction therapy in patients with previously untreated follicular lymphoma (FL) in the United States. METHODS:The National LymphoCare Study is a prospective, mult...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nastoupil LJ,Sinha R,Byrtek M,Zhou X,Taylor MD,Friedberg JW,Link BK,Cerhan JR,Dawson K,Flowers CR

更新日期：2014-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid and progesterone receptors, tyrosine aminotransferase, gamma-glutamyltransferase and alpha-fetoprotein levels were determined in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and adjacent liver tissues. Glucocorticoid receptor was present in seven of ten HCC samples, values ranged from 1.9 to 66.8 fmol/mg protei...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： P'eng FK,Lui WY,Chang TJ,Kao HL,Wu LH,Liu TY,Chi CW

更新日期：1988-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cutaneous desmoplastic malignant melanoma (DMM) has been well characterized, those arising from the oral mucosa have been less well defined. METHODS:We evaluated the clinical and pathologic features of three patients with biopsy-proven DMM examined at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital. Routine he...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kilpatrick SE,White WL,Browne JD

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of preoperative computed tomographic (CT) scans of the chest in carcinoma of the esophagus to associate preoperative staging with postoperative survival is controversial. Thirty-two patients who underwent esophagectomy and reconstruction were examined with respect to a variety of variables available on preoper...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lefor AT,Merino MM,Steinberg SM,Dwyer A,Roth JA,Flanagan M,Pass HI

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assume that the benefit of screening for breast cancer with a combination of mammography and a clinical examination is measured by comparing the five-year survival rate of women detected by screening to the five-year survival rate of women surface clinically with breast cancer, e.g., to the survival rate of women repo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Shwartz M

更新日期：1980-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of a 3-day Hemoccult II test in the diagnosis of colorectal disease in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy was studied. The influence of rehydration and nonrehydration of the slide was investigated, as well as the reproducibility of positive tests. Eight hundred forty-nine patients on anticoagulant ther...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kewenter J,Svanvik J,Svensson C,Wållgren K

更新日期：1984-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The report describes a clinical trial on conservative surgery in progress at the National Cancer Institute of Milan, Italy. The randomized clinical trial compares radical mastectomy with a more conservative procedure consisting of mammary resection plus axillary dissection plus radiotherapy. The resection comprises an...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Veronesi U,Banfi A,Saccozzi R,Salvadori B,Zucali R,Uslenghi C,Greco M,Luini A,Rilke F,Sultan L

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reports utilizing data from the Commission on Cancer's National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) have previously contained evaluations of time trends for stage of disease at diagnosis, treatment, and survival for multiple tumor sites. Data collected from 1989, 1990, 1994, and 1995 for carcinoma of the gallbladder are...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Donohue JH,Stewart AK,Menck HR

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00