Prognosis in Black children with neuroblastoma.

abstract：:The administration of two chemoimmunotherapy programs to 103 consecutive patients with metastatic colorectal cancer resulted in improved survival for patients who achieved either objective tumor regressions or disease stabilization for more than 8 weeks. Objective tumor regression was observed in 47% of patients treat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Valdivieso M,Bedikian A,Burgess MA,Rodriguez V,Hersh EM,Bodey GP,Mavligit GM

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African-American (AA) women have lower survival rates from cervical cancer compared with white women. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) and other variables on racial disparities in overall survival among women with invasive cervical cancer. METHODS:One th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Movva S,Noone AM,Banerjee M,Patel DA,Schwartz K,Yee CL,Simon MS

更新日期：2008-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clofarabine is a new-generation nucleoside analog that has been synthesized to combine the most favorable pharmacokinetic properties of its congeners fludarabine and cladribine. In addition to inhibition of DNA polymerases and DNA synthesis, clofarabine acts as a strong inhibitor of ribonucleotide reductase (RnR), an ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Faderl S,Gandhi V,Keating MJ,Jeha S,Plunkett W,Kantarjian HM

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the adult oncologists in the area of pediatric cancer treatment previously has been unmeasured. A questionnaire bearing regarding the practice of 447 adult oncologists was administered in June 1991. The membership list of the Association of Community Cancer Centers was used to identify contact oncologists....

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brady AM,Harvey C

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reported frequency of gastrointestinal (GI) tract involvement in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is 15-30%. However, this figure most likely is an underestimate because most patients with MCL involving the GI tract previously reported were examined endoscopically only if they had GI tract sympto...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Romaguera JE,Medeiros LJ,Hagemeister FB,Fayad LE,Rodriguez MA,Pro B,Younes A,McLaughlin P,Goy A,Sarris AH,Dang NH,Samaniego F,Brown HM,Gagneja HK,Cabanillas F

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) may progress to blast phase (BP) at the rate of 1% to 1.5% per year. With the use of single-agent tyrosine kinase inhibitors, median overall survival ranges between 7 and 11 months. METHODS:The outcome was analyzed for 42 patients with lymphoid BP-CML who were treated with hyp...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Strati P,Kantarjian H,Thomas D,O'Brien S,Konoplev S,Jorgensen JL,Luthra R,Abruzzo L,Jabbour E,Quintas-Cardama A,Borthakur G,Faderl S,Ravandi F,Cortes J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system (CNS) recurrence continues to be a significant complication in the treatment of adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Preventing CNS recurrence has been a therapeutic challenge and has not been addressed critically in many clinical trials. Adult studies modeled on childhood ALL...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jabbour E,Thomas D,Cortes J,Kantarjian HM,O'Brien S

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ureteral lesions can be difficult to diagnose. The value of ureteral biopsy in addition to ureteral washings has not been defined clearly. METHODS:All ureteral washings and biopsies with follow-up that were performed at a single institution were reviewed. RESULTS:In total, 39 patients underwent ureteral wa...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Renshaw AA

更新日期：2006-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two-thirds of cancer cases are associated with two lifestyle practices: 35% with the typical American diet, and 30% with tobacco use. In contrast to the field of tobacco control, research and resources dedicated to the field of nutrition have been limited, in part because dietary change has been considered c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bal DG,Foerster SB

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with advanced cancer often experience fatigue and other symptoms that negatively impact their quality of life. The current trial investigated the effect of melatonin on fatigue and other symptoms in patients with advanced cancer. METHODS:Patients who were aged ≥18 years, had a histologically confir...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lund Rasmussen C,Klee Olsen M,Thit Johnsen A,Petersen MA,Lindholm H,Andersen L,Villadsen B,Groenvold M,Pedersen L

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human breast cancers frequently show loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and/or amplification at specific chromosomal regions. METHODS:To investigate the roles of these genetic alterations during tumor development and/or progression, 457 cases of primary breast cancer were examined for LOH at chromosomal regions 1...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Harada Y,Katagiri T,Ito I,Akiyama F,Sakamoto G,Kasumi F,Nakamura Y,Emi M

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to assess prostate carcinoma detection and discrimination of benign from malignant prostate tissue with contrast-enhanced ultrasonography. METHODS:In all, 301 subjects referred for prostate biopsy were evaluated with contrast-enhanced sonography using continuous harmonic imagin...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Halpern EJ,Ramey JR,Strup SE,Frauscher F,McCue P,Gomella LG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have recently reported on the importance of quality of life (QOL) in predicting the survival of patients with lung carcinoma. To confirm these reports, the relationship between survival and QOL, as measured by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of L...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Herndon JE 2nd,Fleishman S,Kornblith AB,Kosty M,Green MR,Holland J

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracranial meningiomas are common and comprise 20% of all primary brain tumors. Meningiomas infrequently metastasize; however, to the authors' knowledge there are limited data regarding the spread of disease through cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). METHODS:Eight of 200 consecutive patients (4%) with meningiomas...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chamberlain MC,Glantz MJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Older age has historically been an adverse prognostic factor in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML). To the authors' knowledge, the impact of age relative to that of other prognostic factors on the outcome of patients treated in recent trials is unknown. METHODS:Clinical outcome and causes of treatment f...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rubnitz JE,Pounds S,Cao X,Jenkins L,Dahl G,Bowman WP,Taub JW,Pui CH,Ribeiro RC,Campana D,Inaba H

更新日期：2012-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the rarity of small-bowel epithelial neoplasms as compared with the case for the large bowel, evidence for an adenoma-carcinoma sequence in the small bowel was studied based on a search for data in the medical literature for the years 1927 through 1986. Sufficiently defined data were found for comparison of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sellner F

更新日期：1990-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to noninvasively discriminate the most common types of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) based on their magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) appearances or their magnetic resonance phenotypes is achievable. Intracellular lipids, a histologic characteristic of the clear cell RCC, can be identified on chemical shift MR...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pedrosa I,Alsop DC,Rofsky NM

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of complementary methods (CMs) is widespread and increasing in the United States. Most literature on CM use among cancer survivors focuses on the treatment period, whereas only a few studies address use further along the cancer continuum. METHODS:This study analyzed the prevalence and the medical an...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gansler T,Kaw C,Crammer C,Smith T

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinicopathologic analysis of 12 cases of a morphologically distinctive non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma which appeared to arise from the mantle zones of secondary lymphoid follicles is presented. In lymph node and spleen sections, atypical small lymphoid cells with slightly irregular and indented nuclear contours p...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Weisenburger DD,Kim H,Rappaport H

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relationship between smoking and stage of colorectal cancer at diagnosis, data on 2788 current smokers and 6313 nonsmokers with known stage at diagnosis were obtained from the Massachusetts Cancer Registry. The stage at diagnosis was treated as a polytomous response variable in a logit-type, log-linear ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Longnecker MP,Clapp RW,Sheahan K

更新日期：1989-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Front loading chemotherapy using methotrexate (200 mg/m2) alone or methotrexate (200 mg/m2) with cisplatin (20 mg/m2 daily for 5 days) was used in epidermoid carcinoma of esophagus. Evaluation after two courses showed objective response of 50% or greater in 48% of patients with methotrexate alone. Response rate was in...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Advani SH,Saikia TK,Swaroop S,Ramakrishnan G,Nair CN,Dinshaw KA,Sharma S,Vyas JJ,Desai PB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown previously that invasive human transitional cell carcinoma cell line EJ, but not the noninvasive RT4 cells, can degrade basement membrane laminin and that the degradation of basement membrane laminin was a result of a redistribution of activated cysteine proteinase cathepsin B to the plasma membrane of th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Redwood SM,Liu BC,Weiss RE,Hodge DE,Droller MJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The German Society of Pediatric Oncology in 1981 initiated the Cooperative Ewing's Sarcoma Study (CESS 81) using a four-drug combination of chemotherapy prior to definitive local control with surgery and/or radiation. From January 1, 1981 until February 28, 1985, 93 patients were registered at the trial office from 54...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jürgens H,Exner U,Gadner H,Harms D,Michaelis J,Sauer R,Treuner J,Voûte T,Winkelmann W,Winkler K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors investigated the prevalence of pretreatment urinary, sexual, hormonal, and bowel dysfunction in a contemporary, population-based prostate cancer cohort. They also explored the associations between baseline function and age, comorbidity, and timing of baseline survey completion with respect to tre...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Resnick MJ,Barocas DA,Morgans AK,Phillips SE,Chen VW,Cooperberg MR,Goodman M,Greenfield S,Hamilton AS,Hoffman KE,Kaplan SH,Paddock LE,Stroup AM,Wu XC,Koyama T,Penson DF

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of many reports, it remains unclear whether the presence of tumor cells in circulating blood flow predicts a poor prognosis. METHODS:Competitive seminested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), a technique for the quantitative detection of tumor cells, was applied to detect the ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sadahiro S,Suzuki T,Tokunaga N,Yurimoto S,Yasuda S,Tajima T,Makuuchi H,Murayama C,Matsuda K

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models play a fundamental role in all sciences. Scientific theories can be understood as "intellectual models" of the relations and interrelations between the elements of the science. Such relational models consider the scientific topics as "systems," and may therefore be called "system models." The basic elements of ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brock N,Schneider B

更新日期：1984-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peritoneal metastases are one reason for the poor prognosis of scirrhous gastric cancer. However, the mechanism of peritoneal metastasis remains unclear. We therefore investigated the interaction between gastric cancer cells and peritoneal fibroblasts, in vivo and in vitro. METHODS:A human scirrhous gastric...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yashiro M,Chung YS,Nishimura S,Inoue T,Sowa M

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of metastasis to the thyroid gland in autopsy series varies from 1.25% to 24%. Metastasis to the thyroid gland is usually considered a terminal event, and the effectiveness of conventional treatment has been questioned. The authors assessed the effects of current methods of diagnosis and treatm...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nakhjavani MK,Gharib H,Goellner JR,van Heerden JA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients with metastatic breast cancer were treated with a combination of vincristine, Adriamycin and prednisolone (VAP) at four weekly intervals. Response rates of 78% for soft tissue disease, 66% for parenchymal lung disease, 67% for liver disease, and 64% for pleural effusions were seen. Only 26% of patients ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Russell JA,Baker JW,Dady PJ,Ford HT,Gazet JC,McKinna JA,Nash AG,Powles TJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with advanced head and neck cancer have significant reduction in their circulating lymphocyte mass which is reflected in decreased numbers of T cells, Fc receptor cells, and in derangements of T lymphocyte functions, i.e., decreased responsiveness to several dilutions of phytohemagglutinin and lack of develop...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zighelboim J,Dorey F,Parker NH,Calcaterra T,Ward P,Fahey JL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00