Recent perspectives in the role of chemotherapy in the management of advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

abstract：:Complete spontaneous regression of high-grade malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is extremely unusual. In this report the authors describe a complete spontaneous remission after surgical excisional biopsy of a small noncleaved cell malignant lymphoma (non-Burkitt's lymphoblastic lymphoma) of the tonsil in a 12-year-old ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Poppema S,Postma L,Brinker M,de Jong B

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reliability of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of breast masses in males could be compromised by lack of experience because breast carcinoma is rare in males and FNAC is not often used. In addition, FNAC of the more often encountered gynecomastia may lead to overdiagnosis. Therefore, in the curren...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Westenend PJ,Jobse C

更新日期：2002-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow biopsies (BMB) were performed on 622 women with a history of primary or metastatic breast cancer. In 332 of the patients bone scintigraphy (BSC) was also carried out at the time of initial diagnosis or during follow-up. The BMB revealed metastases in 22/88 patients (25%) in Stage I--III with positive BSC a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Landys K

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between July 1951 and January 1984, 14 female patients (11 black and three white; average age, 58 years) were treated for primary urethral carcinoma. Five patients had radical surgery, six received preoperative radiotherapy (2000 cGy in five fractions) followed by anterior exenteration, and three had definitive radiot...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Moinuddin Ali M,Klein FA,Hazra TA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During recent years there has been a growing awareness among both the oncologic and nutrition communities about an association between nutrition and cancer causation with the practical implication of manipulating nutrition as a means of preventing cancer. Epidemiologic correlations, prospective studies of selected pop...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Newell GR

更新日期：1983-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective immunocytochemical study of prolactin, growth hormone, ACTH, TSH and gonadotropins was performed on 150 pituitary adenomas from 142 patients and the results were correlated with clinical manifestations. There were 60 prolactin-positive tumors, 13 growth hormone-positive tumors, nine ACTH-positive tumors ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mukai K

更新日期：1983-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular genetic alterations in colorectal carcinoma are among the best understood of any common human cancer. Identified abnormalities include both dominant-acting oncogenes (ras, myc, src) and suppressor genes which undergo inactivation or deletion (deleted in colorectal carcinoma gene [DCC], p53, adenomatous p...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hamilton SR

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast reconstruction is performed with increasing frequency and has become important in the treatment of mastectomy patients. METHODS:The development of recurrent carcinoma after a mastectomy and transverse rectus abdominus myocutaneous (TRAM) flap procedure is described. RESULTS:The lesion was nonpalpabl...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mund DF,Wolfson P,Gorczyca DP,Fu YS,Love SM,Bassett LW

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the case of a 40-year-old white man with an obstructing laryngeal mass. Despite considerable tumor size, results of repeated biopsies revealed widespread carcinoma in situ with chronic inflammation within the subcutaneous tissues, and only after extensive endoscopic "debulking" of the mass was a sm...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Eskinazi DP,Mihail R,Dichtel WG

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cyclophosphamide (CY) on ovarian function was studied in patients with breast cancer receiving prolonged daily administration of this agent (100 mg/day) after radical surgery. Out of 18 premenopausal patients that received 8.4-39.9 g CY, 15 developed permanent amenorrhea. The average dose given before th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Koyama H,Wada T,Nishizawa Y,Iwanaga T,Aoki Y

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) at an early disease stage is important for successful treatment and improving the outcome of patients. The use of serum protein profiles and a classification tree algorithm were explored to distinguish NPC from noncancer. METHODS:Serum samples were applied to meta...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ho DW,Yang ZF,Wong BY,Kwong DL,Sham JS,Wei WI,Yuen AP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irreversible and progressive renal parenchymal damage and functional impairment occurred in the majority of patients receiving at least six courses (200 mg/m2 of BCNU and/or methyl CCNU at eight-week intervals) of nitrosoureas for therapy of malignant brain tumors. Seventeen of 18 patients who received at least six co...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schacht RG,Feiner HD,Gallo GR,Lieberman A,Baldwin DS

更新日期：1981-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary lymphomas of the uterus or cervix are so rare that treatment series of single institutions consist of very small numbers of patients, making standard treatment difficult to define. The outcome of patients treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy was analyzed for all but patien...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Stroh EL,Besa PC,Cox JD,Fuller LM,Cabanillas FF

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of patients with breast carcinoma with > or = 10 metastatic axillary lymph nodes (ALNs) develop recurrent disease within 5 years from diagnosis. The purpose of the current study, performed retrospectively, was to characterize the natural history of this subset of patients, both before and after ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Montero AJ,Rouzier R,Lluch A,Theriault RL,Buzdar AU,Delaloge S,Bermejo B,Le M,Kau SW,Dunant A,Arriagada R,Spielmann M,Garcia-Conde J,Sahin AA,Singletary SE,Hortobagyi GN,Valero V

更新日期：2005-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ribonucleotide reductase M1 (RRM1) is an important molecule in different types of cancer. The objective of this study was to evaluate the predictive roles of RRM1 in the survival of patients with resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma who received treatment with gemcitabine or nongemcitabine adjuvant therapy. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Xie H,Jiang W,Jiang J,Wang Y,Kim R,Liu X,Liu X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atypical and anaplastic meningiomas tend to recur and to invade adjacent brain, bone, and skin. They also can metastasize to extracranial organs such as the lung, liver, or bone, causing death. Recent reports have indicated that allelic deletion of chromosome 1p is associated with malignant progression of me...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ishino S,Hashimoto N,Fushiki S,Date K,Mori T,Fujimoto M,Nakagawa Y,Ueda S,Abe T,Inazawa J

更新日期：1998-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reliable predictive biomarkers are required to address the challenge of disease recurrence after thyroid cancer surgery. For this study, the authors assessed the association of cellular-based and serum-based immunologic mediators with thyroid cancer recurrence. METHODS:Leukocyte subset counts and immune reg...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Owonikoko TK,Hossain MS,Bhimani C,Chen Z,Kim S,Ramalingam SS,Sun SY,Shin DM,Waller EK,Khuri FR

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine cases identified as acinic cell adenocarcinoma of minor salivary glands from the files of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Department of Pathology, Temple University School of Dentistry were studied to determine the clinical and histomorphologic parameters of this lesion. One case was examined ultr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chen SY,Brannon RB,Miller AS,White DK,Hooker SP

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overall survival (OS) is considered the gold standard for determining treatment efficacy in oncology trials, but the relation between treatment and OS can be challenging to assess because of long study durations and the impact of subsequent therapies on outcome. Using OS can be particularly difficult for new...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Smith BD,DeZern AE,Bastian AW,Durie BGM

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the size and characteristics of the decision-support networks of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer and whether their involvement improves breast cancer treatment decisions. METHODS:A population-based sample of patients newly diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 and 2015, as repo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wallner LP,Li Y,McLeod MC,Hamilton AS,Ward KC,Veenstra CM,An LC,Janz NK,Katz SJ,Hawley ST

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A low-dose maintenance schedule of Adriamycin was evaluated in six children whose metastatic solid tumors regressed following toxic induction therapy with Adriamycin. Three of these children are now disease-free more than one year following discontinuation of therapy. Adriamycin can be given on a low-dose maintenance ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hvizdala EV,Komp DM,Arnold JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of the current analysis was to evaluate the impact of local recurrence (LR) on the development of distant metastases (DM), overall survival (OS), and cause specific survival (CSS) in patients with early-stage breast carcinoma who underwent conservative surgery (CS) and received postoperative radi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vicini FA,Kestin L,Huang R,Martinez A

更新日期：2003-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to confirm whether black and white women with endometrial cancer are equally tolerant of chemotherapy and identify factors that impact survival. METHODS:A retrospective review of 169 black women and 982 white women with the International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetri...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Farley JH,Tian C,Rose GS,Brown CL,Birrer M,Risinger JI,Thigpen JT,Fleming GF,Gallion HH,Maxwell GL

更新日期：2010-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carcinoid tumors are unusual and most reports are anecdotal or limited in number. A series of 2837 cases was published in 1975. No recent large series is available. METHODS:The authors evaluated 5468 cases identified by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer In...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Modlin IM,Sandor A

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this Phase II study was to evaluate the concept of sequential chemotherapy in the treatment of patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) by the administration of carboplatin plus gemcitabine followed by of paclitaxel. METHODS:Patients with Stage IIIB (pleural effusion) or ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Edelman MJ,Gandara DR,Lau DH,Lara P,Lauder IJ,Tracy D

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In preclinical Ewing sarcoma (ES) models, poly(adenosine diphosphate ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors were identified as a potential therapeutic strategy with synergy in combination with cytotoxic agents. This study evaluated the safety and dosing of the PARP1/2 inhibitor niraparib (NIR) with temozolomid...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chugh R,Ballman KV,Helman LJ,Patel S,Whelan JS,Widemann B,Lu Y,Hawkins DS,Mascarenhas L,Glod JW,Ji J,Zhang Y,Reinke D,Strauss SJ

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chordoma and chondrosarcoma of the skull base are frequently amalgamated because of similar anatomic location, clinical presentation, and radiologic findings. The chondroid chordoma variant has been reported to carry a better prognosis. The objective of the current study was to investigate the distinctions b...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Almefty K,Pravdenkova S,Colli BO,Al-Mefty O,Gokden M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the current study, the authors focused on determinants influencing the quality of care and variations in the actual quality of integrated care for patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to estimate whether there is room for improvement. METHODS:The authors tested the quality of integrated care f...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ouwens MM,Hermens RR,Termeer RA,Vonk-Okhuijsen SY,Tjan-Heijnen VC,Verhagen AF,Hulscher MM,Marres HA,Wollersheim HC,Grol RP

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of hyperthermic isolation perfusion in the treatment of advanced melanoma of the limbs is clearly important. However, attention has in the past been focussed mainly on surgical aspects of the procedure. Whereas, equivalent interest in chemotherapy considerations has been lacking. A group of 15 patients have b...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Klein ES,Ben-Ari GY

更新日期：1987-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognostic factors for patients with stage III melanoma are still controversial. METHODS:Two hundred eighty-six patients with solitary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the skin in Stage III (International Union Against Cancer [UICC]) were followed up for as long as 11 years. RESULTS:Patients in risk group p...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Drepper H,Biess B,Hofherr B,Hundeiker M,Lippold A,Otto F,Padberg G,Peters A,Wiebelt H

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00