Extragonadal germ cell tumors in Taiwan: an analysis of treatment results of 59 patients.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the attempt to characterize the genetic bases of recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) after radiotherapy (RT), the authors compared the molecular profiles of primary tumors and recurrences. METHODS:TP53 gene status and instability at 10 microsatellite markers were determined in pre-RT ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Deganello A,Franchi A,Sardi I,Pignataro L,Leemans CR,Gallo O

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the existence of subclinical Pneumocystis carinii infection in pediatric patients with solid tumors or hematologic malignancies has been documented, similar data are lacking in adults. In addition, data are needed to define the epidemiology of this agent in adult malignancies to assess the validity of the met...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Robert NJ,Pifer LL,Niell HB,Woods DR,Neely CL,Miller JH,Churchill H

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early stage lung cancer has a variable prognosis, and there are currently no markers that predict which patients will recur. This study examined the relation between tumor-regulatory T (Treg) cells and total tumor-infiltrating T-cell lymphocytes (TIL) to determine whether they correlated with recurrence. ME...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Petersen RP,Campa MJ,Sperlazza J,Conlon D,Joshi MB,Harpole DH Jr,Patz EF Jr

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on Church records for 15,500 California Mormons during 1968 to 1975 and for 55,000 Utah Mormons during 1970 and 1975, the ratio of age-adjusted death rates for religiously active Mormon males compared with U.S. white males is 38% for ages 35 to 64 years and 50% for ages 35 years and above. The remaining life exp...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Enstrom JE

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large amount of interindividual variability exists in the occurrence of symptoms in patients receiving chemotherapy (CTX). The purposes of the current study, which was performed in a sample of 582 oncology outpatients who were receiving CTX, were to identify subgroups of patients based on their distinct ex...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Miaskowski C,Cooper BA,Melisko M,Chen LM,Mastick J,West C,Paul SM,Dunn LB,Schmidt BL,Hammer M,Cartwright F,Wright F,Langford DJ,Lee K,Aouizerat BE

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Workload is extensively regulated and often used as a measure of quality in gynecologic cytology. Whether workload correlates with the sensitivity of screening in gynecologic cytology is not known. METHODS:The sensitivity of gynecologic cytology screening was measured over an 8-month period using the result...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Deschenes M,Renshaw AA,Auger M

更新日期：2008-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aims of this study were to compare human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) results between immunohistochemistry (IHC) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and to investigate the clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes according to their results. METHODS:Using consecutive tissu...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Park S,Park HS,Koo JS,Yang WI,Kim SI,Park BW

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic and laboratory data suggest that cervical cancer typically arises from a series of causal steps. Each step can be studied separately in the hope of better etiologic understanding and improved cancer prevention. The earliest identified etiologic step is infection of young women with specific types of vene...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schiffman MH,Brinton LA

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circulating immune complexes (CIC) have been implicated as a cause of malignancy-associated immunosuppression and disease progression. Previous attempts to remove CIC by pheresis or immunoadsorption over a Staphylococcus aureus protein A column have resulted in a few clinical responses, however the relations...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fennelly DW,Norton L,Sznol M,Hakes TB

更新日期：1995-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty-six evaluable patients with metastatic breast cancer were treated with vincristine, Adriamycin and cyclophosphamide alternating at fixed intervals with 5-FU and methotrexate. Immunotherapy with BCG or MER-BCG was administered to all patients in two consecutive treatment programs. Overall objective re...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Blumenschein GR,Hortobagyi GN,Richman SP,Gutterman JU,Tashima CK,Buzdar AU,Burgess MA,Livingston RB,Hersh EM

更新日期：1980-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytopathologists recognize that certain Pap smear findings are suspicious for endometrial pathology in menopausal women. To study their prognostic importance in the directed cervical smear, six parameters were used to evaluate smears for evidence of an endometrial lesion: the presence of (1) histiocytes, (2) multinucl...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zucker PK,Kasdon EJ,Feldstein ML

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The degree of response and the duration of survival of patients treated with mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitors are highly variable. Whether baseline clinicopathologic factors can predict the clinical course with treatment is largely unknown. METHODS:For 142 consecutive immunotherapy- and MA...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Menzies AM,Wilmott JS,Drummond M,Lo S,Lyle M,Chan MM,Thompson JF,Guminski A,Carlino MS,Scolyer RA,Kefford RF,Long GV

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preoperative chemoradiation improves survival in esophageal and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer. We evaluated irinotecan and cisplatin as induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiation in esophageal cancer. METHODS:Patients with uT1N1M0 or uT2-4NanyM0 resectable squamous cancer or adeno...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ilson DH,Minsky BD,Ku GY,Rusch V,Rizk N,Shah M,Kelsen DP,Capanu M,Tang L,Campbell J,Bains M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) quantitation by a whole-cell assay and/or cytosol technique and the in vitro sensitivity to steroids have been assessed in peripheral blood cells from normal donors and patients with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), lymphosarcoma cell leukemia (LSCL...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nanni P,Nicoletti G,Prodi G,Galli MC,De Giovanni C,Grilli S,Lollini PL,Gobbi M,Cavo M,Tura S

更新日期：1982-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) in a defined population is unknown. METHODS:The incidence of histologically diagnosed cases of BCC in a defined population of a city in southern Sweden was studied. Four 2-year periods were examined from 1970 to 1986. Cases from 1970 and 1980 were reexamined micro...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dahl E,Aberg M,Rausing A,Rausing EL

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with locoregional carcinoma of the esophagus or esophagogastric junction who underwent preoperative chemoradiation, it is unclear whether survival was better predicted by pretherapy clinical stage or by posttherapy pathologic stage. METHODS:The authors studied 235 consecutive patients with preth...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chirieac LR,Swisher SG,Ajani JA,Komaki RR,Correa AM,Morris JS,Roth JA,Rashid A,Hamilton SR,Wu TT

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral tongue cancer incidence has increased among whites in the United States; however, the cause remains unknown. If an infectious agent is implicated, then elevated risk would be expected among immunosuppressed individuals. METHODS:By using population-based registry linkage information from the US Transpla...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tota JE,Engels EA,Madeleine MM,Clarke CA,Lynch CF,Ortiz AP,Hernandez BY,Chaturvedi AK

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Questions have existed as to whether residential segregation is a mediator of racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer care and breast cancer mortality, or has a differential effect by race/ethnicity. METHODS:Data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare database on white, black, and ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Haas JS,Earle CC,Orav JE,Brawarsky P,Keohane M,Neville BA,Williams DR

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA stemline ploidy was assessed in paraffin-embedded, formalin-fixed primary tumor tissue from 68 patients with nonseminomatous germ cell cancer (NSCGT) clinical Stage I (CS I). Forty-three patients had a single aneuploid (greater than 1C) DNA stemline, whereas 24 patients had multiple aneuploid stemlines. In one...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fosså SD,Nesland JM,Waehre H,Amellem O,Pettersen EO

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although acquired somatic mutations presumably are crucial in carcinogenesis, nothing is known about the chromosome aberrations of bilateral breast carcinomas. METHODS:Eighteen specimens from 16 bilateral carcinomas were analyzed cytogenetically. The banding analysis was supplemented with fluorescence in si...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pandis N,Teixeira MR,Gerdes AM,Limon J,Bardi G,Andersen JA,Idvall I,Mandahl N,Mitelman F,Heim S

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) historically were grouped with leiomyosarcomas (LMSs) based on their morphologic similarities; however, recently, GIST was established unequivocally as a distinct type of sarcoma based on its molecular features and response to imatinib treatment. METHODS:To gain furth...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ylipää A,Hunt KK,Yang J,Lazar AJ,Torres KE,Lev DC,Nykter M,Pollock RE,Trent J,Zhang W

更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ordinary craniopharyngiomas affecting sellar regions of children and preadolescents are composed of ameloblastomatous and/or squamous constituents. The authors encountered an autopsy case of a stillborn infant with a large craniopharyngioma with unusual manifestations. METHODS:The craniopharyngioma was anal...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yamada H,Haratake J,Narasaki T,Oda T

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myoepithelial carcinoma, also know as malignant myoepithelioma, is rare in the salivary gland, and its cytologic features have rarely been reported. DESIGN:Four cases of myoepithelial carcinoma with cytology were retrieved from the archives of the Pathology Departments of two academic institutes. In three c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chhieng DC,Paulino AF

更新日期：2002-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because studies have suggested that anemia has an adverse effect on outcome for patients with cervical carcinoma who are treated with radiation, recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo) has been used increasingly to maintain hemoglobin levels in these patients. Erythropoietin may increase the risk of thromb...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wun T,Law L,Harvey D,Sieracki B,Scudder SA,Ryu JK

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) is important in colorectal cancer (CRC) progression. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), a subgroup within the TGFbeta superfamily, recently also have been implicated in CRC, but their precise role in CRC has yet to be investigated. METHODS:The authors used a tissue...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kodach LL,Bleuming SA,Musler AR,Peppelenbosch MP,Hommes DW,van den Brink GR,van Noesel CJ,Offerhaus GJ,Hardwick JC

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report four patients whose initial symptom of tumor recurrence or progression was unilateral numbness of the chin. Two patients had Hodgkin lymphoma, one had malignant melanoma, and one had prostate cancer. Physical examination was notable only for unilateral anesthesia of the chin and lower lip. Diagnosti...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Burt RK,Sharfman WH,Karp BI,Wilson WH

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonfunctioning strumal carcinoid arising in a 49-year-old woman was studied by histochemical and immunocytochemical techniques. All tumor cells, irrespective of their architectural arrangement, showed properties of neuroendocrine-programmed cells, without any evidence of thyroid follicular cell differentiation. Foci...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dayal Y,Tashjian AH Jr,Wolfe HJ

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with locoregional carcinoma of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction have a poor survival rate after surgery. Preoperative chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy has not improved the outcome for these patients. Our study was designed to assess the feasibility of preoperative induction combination ch...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ajani JA,Komaki R,Putnam JB,Walsh G,Nesbitt J,Pisters PW,Lynch PM,Vaporciyan A,Smythe R,Lahoti S,Raijman I,Swisher S,Martin FD,Roth JA

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and histologic data from 12 patients with "reticulum cell sarcoma" (large cell lymphoma) presenting in the skin were reviewed. Moreover, when appropriate material was available additional immunological, cytochemical and ultrastructural techniques were used to define the nature of the neoplastic cells. Eig...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Willemze R,Ruiter DJ,Van Vloten WA,Meijer CJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An atypical case of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) associated with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) occurred in a 46-year-old Inupiat Eskimo man with no behavioral risk factors for HTLV-I infection. The case was characterized by lack of atypical circulating lymphocytes, hypercalcemia, and opportun...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Davidson M,Braziel RM,Lairmore MD,Jacobson S,Sprott JM,Tucker SB,Levine PH,Kaplan JE

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00