Fludarabine and mitoxantrone for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The health-related functioning of patients with cancer is compromised by several factors, including the disease process, treatment, and the various symptoms that are produced by both disease and treatment. This study was designed to specify the relationship between patients' pain severity and their self-repo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wang XS,Cleeland CS,Mendoza TR,Engstrom MC,Liu S,Xu G,Hao X,Wang Y,Ren XS

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the independent activity of cisplatin, vinblastine, and dimethyl-triazeno-imidazole-carboxamide (DTIC) (CVD), a combination of these agents was used in the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma. Vinblastine was used in a dose of 1.6 mg/m2/d for 5 days, DTIC was used in a dose of 800 mg/m2 intravenously...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Legha SS,Ring S,Papadopoulos N,Plager C,Chawla S,Benjamin R

更新日期：1989-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of 567 thin-needle aspiration biopsies of head and neck lesions are reviewed. Cases included lymph nodes, salivary glands, thyroid, soft tissue and bone lesions. For the entire series, 17 patients had unsatisfactory aspirations. There were 12 false negative reports and 4 false positive reports, rates of 2.1% a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Frable WJ,Frable MA

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with colorectal carcinoma undergo attempts at curative surgery. However, some present with metastatic disease and many others ultimately relapse. Most recurrences of colorectal cancer are not resectable and require nonsurgical approaches such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy directed against local r...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vaughn DJ,Haller DG

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recommendations for pretreatment evaluation and treatment of cervical cancer have significantly evolved over the last decade because of the results of multiple randomized studies comparing the addition of platin-based chemoradiation as well as the widespread dissemination and use of imaging modalities. This ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Trimble EL,Harlan LC,Gius D,Stevens J,Schwartz SM

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High tissue concentrations of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) were revealed by radioimmunoassay in a hepatic tumor which was surgically removed from a two-year, eight-month-old boy manifesting sexual precocity. Histologically the tumor showed an embryonal type hepatoblastoma admixed with...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Morinaga S,Yamaguchi M,Watanabe I,Kasai M,Ojima M,Sasano N

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated serum lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) levels, 595 to 615 microns/ml (normal less than 225 microns/ml) with predominance of LDH isoenzymes 2 and 3 was the early and only sign of occult malignant lymphoma in three patients. In the first patient, overt lymphoma appeared clinically only 2 months after the finding of e...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rotenberg Z,Weinberger I,Fuchs Y,Erdberg A,Davidson E,Agmon J

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microsatellite instability occurs frequently in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma, in sporadic gastrointestinal carcinoma, and in other tumors. In these tumors, slippage-related frameshift mutations have been detected at coding mononucleotide repeats in genes such as those for transforming growth ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Saeki A,Tamura S,Ito N,Kiso S,Matsuda Y,Yabuuchi I,Kawata S,Matsuzawa Y

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple cell-signaling ligands and receptors-including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), insulin-like growth factor (IGF), endothelial growth factor (EGF), v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog (AKT), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and 70-kilod...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Abdeen A,Chou AJ,Healey JH,Khanna C,Osborne TS,Hewitt SM,Kim M,Wang D,Moody K,Gorlick R

更新日期：2009-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An open-label Phase II study of oxaliplatin was conducted to evaluate its safety and efficacy in children with recurrent or refractory medulloblastoma (MB), supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors (SPNET), and atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT). METHODS:Patients were stratified as follows: stra...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fouladi M,Blaney SM,Poussaint TY,Freeman BB 3rd,McLendon R,Fuller C,Adesina AM,Hancock ML,Danks MK,Stewart C,Boyett JM,Gajjar A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies regarding different ethnic populations of children with Wilms' tumor (WT) in the U. S. have shown differences between age and gender incidence and the type of its precursor lesions (nephrogenic rests). To the authors' knowledge there are few reports in the literature regarding nephrogenic rests in a ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mishra K,Mathur M,Logani KB,Kakkar N,Krishna A

更新日期：1998-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine years after biopsy and radiation therapy for an extramedullary plasmacytoma of the nasal cavity, a 64-year-old man developed locally recurrent tumor. Repeat biopsy revealed tumor identical in hematoxylin and eosin stain (H & E) appearance to that found originally, leading to the diagnosis of recurrent extramedull...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Abrams RA,Wilson JF,Komorowski RA,Collins D,Toohill RJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is controversy regarding the optimal management of thyroid cancer. The proportion of patients with low-risk thyroid cancer who received radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment increased over the last 20 years, and little is known about the role played by clinicians in hospital-level RAI use for low-risk dis...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Haymart MR,Banerjee M,Yang D,Stewart AK,Koenig RJ,Griggs JJ

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors add six patients with focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver to the increasing number reported. All had ingested hormones as contraceptives for periods of from one and one-half to seven years. In five patients, the initial manifestation was massive intraabdominal hemorrhage and hypovolemic shock. Five of t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Catalano PW,Early ME,Topolosky HW,Martin EW Jr,Carey LC

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After 12 cycles of MOPP therapy for Hodgkin's Disease, an adolescent black male developed hemorrhagic cystitis, which clinically and histologically was similar to that induced by cyclophosphamide. At that time he had a normal platelet count and had never been irradiated below the diaphram. The markedly contracted blad...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Royal JE,Seeler RA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rational treatment of pediatric malignancies requires a detailed knowledge of the clinical pharmacology of those antineoplastic agents used therapeutically. A number of different agents are administered by the oral route. Recently, the clinical pharmacology of 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) and methotrexate (MTX), the two ag...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Poplack DG,Balis FM,Zimm S

更新日期：1986-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Total body irradiation (TBI) is commonly used with autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for treatment of hematologic malignancies. Pulmonary complications of TBI can cause long-term morbidity and mortality. The authors have compared the pulmonary toxicity and efficacy of two different TBI fractionati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gopal R,Ha CS,Tucker SL,Khouri IF,Giralt SA,Gajewski JL,Andersson BS,Cox JD,Champlin RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic significance of ploidy level was studied in prostatic carcinoma and compared with the prognostic significance of morphologic grade and clinical stage. A nonselected group of 145 patients was studied in whom prostatic carcinoma was diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration biopsy at the Karolinska Hospital in ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Forsslund G,Esposti PL,Nilsson B,Zetterberg A

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Male patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer are known to have high risk of concomitant esophageal cancer developing. Thus, mass screening programs are pursued to detect such esophageal cancer early, and in a mass screening trial of patients with early oral and oropharyngeal cancer, the efficacy of Lugol...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ina H,Shibuya H,Ohashi I,Kitagawa M

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The behavior of diffuse peritoneal mesotheliomas in women and the possible relation between tumor morphology and outcome are uncertain. Reported survival has ranged from < 1 month to > 14 years, and a previous study found that tumor morphology could not be used reliably for predicting outcome. The authors ex...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kerrigan SA,Turnnir RT,Clement PB,Young RH,Churg A

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recurrent central neurocytoma is very rare and to the authors' knowledge data regarding its response to chemotherapy currently are not available. METHODS:Three patients with progressive neurocytoma received chemotherapy after their informed consent was obtained. Disease recurred in two patients after surger...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brandes AA,Amistà P,Gardiman M,Volpin L,Danieli D,Guglielmi B,Carollo C,Pinna G,Turazzi S,Monfardini S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to divide subsets of patients with glial neoplasms into prognostic groups currently is limited because only a few clinical and pathologic variables are available. The goal of this investigation was to identify biologic factors of potential prognostic value in patients with cerebral gliomas. METH...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ganju V,Jenkins RB,O'Fallon JR,Scheithauer BW,Ransom DT,Katzmann JA,Kimmel DW

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol study (SWOG-7431) combining adriamycin and methyl CCNU (MAD) for metastatic sarcomas was initially used on patients who were refractory to cytoxan, vincristine, and/or actinomycin-D. After the initial good results, the study was expanded to include any untreated patients with metastatic sarcoma. The init...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rivkin SE,Gottlieb JA,Thigpen T,El Mawla NG,Saiki J,Dixon DO

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous data from the National Cancer Data Base have examined time trends in stage of disease, treatment patterns, and survival for selected cancers. The most current (1993) data for breast carcinoma are described here. METHODS:Five Calls for Data have yielded a total of 508,724 breast cancer cases diagnos...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Winchester DP,Osteen RT,Menck HR

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of 99mTc-pertechnetate thyroid imaging in the preoperative assessment of patients with single palpable thyroid nodules was evaluated. The frequency of cancer in hypofunctional nodules was similar to that found in previous studies with 131I. The 99mTc-pertechnetate image allowed a reliable separation of pathol...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Alderson PO,Sumner HW,Siegel BA

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current results of trials testing combined surgery and chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer is reviewed. Information concerning eight trials utilizing nine single-agent regimens was obtained. The results at this time are conflicting. There appear to be differences among the regimens utilized in the various ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tormey DC

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To identify potential genetic markers for severe oxaliplatin-induced chronic peripheral neuropathy (OXCPN), the authors performed a genome-wide association analysis of patients with colon cancer who received oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy. METHODS:This was a prospective study in which DNA was purified in pe...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Won HH,Lee J,Park JO,Park YS,Lim HY,Kang WK,Kim JW,Lee SY,Park SH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To clarify the differences in angiogenesis between benign and malignant ovarian tumors, the authors examined the immunohistochemical characteristics and the density of tumor vessels in both tumor groups. Intratumoral vascularization was observed preoperatively by transvaginal color Doppler ultrasound. METHO...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Emoto M,Iwasaki H,Mimura K,Kawarabayashi T,Kikuchi M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although pediatric cancer mortality and survival have improved in the United States over the past 40 years, differences exist by age, race/ethnicity, cancer site, and economic status. To assess progress, this study examined recent mortality and survival data for individuals younger than 20 years. METHODS:Ag...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Siegel DA,Richardson LC,Henley SJ,Wilson RJ,Dowling NF,Weir HK,Tai EW,Buchanan Lunsford N

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An intensive in-patient Phase II study of continuous infusion recombinant human interleukin-2 (rhIL-2) 3 X 10(6) Roche units (9 MIU/m2)/day plus intramuscular injection of interferon-alpha-2a (rIFN-alpha-2a) 5 x 10(6) U/m2/day, four consecutive days per week, was performed to determine whether four consecuti...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Eton O,Talpaz M,Lee KH,Rothberg JM,Brell JM,Benjamin RS

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00