Comparison of ureteral washing and biopsy specimens in the community setting.

abstract：:The effects of radiotherapy on immune status in patients with localized carcinoma of the cervix have been assessed serially up to 5 years remission by a wide range of methods. Neutrophil function and serum immunoglobulins were essentially normal throughout. Peripheral blood neutrophil and lymphocyte counts and the pro...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hancock BW,Bruce L,Whitham MD,Ward AM

更新日期：1984-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) becomes a standard of treatment for men with recurrent or metastatic prostate cancer, evaluation of adverse effects associated with this treatment is needed. In this study, the authors evaluated the effect of ADT administered as monotherapy and in combination with local ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sadetsky N,Greene K,Cooperberg MR,Hubbard A,Carroll PR,Satariano W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the relationship between histologic findings and clinical behavior in angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy (AILD), 44 patients with AILD were reviewed. These patients comprised 24 men and 20 women with age range from 25 to 84 years of age (median, 64 years). Lymphadenopathy was observed in all pa...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Aozasa K,Ohsawa M,Fujita MQ,Kanayama Y,Tominaga N,Yonezawa T,Matsubuchi T,Hirata M,Uda H,Kanamaru A

更新日期：1989-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of fatal acute hepatic vein thrombosis occurred during treatment for Hodgkin's disease. At necropsy no evidence of Hodgkin's disease or obliterative venoocclusive disease of the liver was found. We speculate that Adriamycin, DTIC and/or vinblastine may have been responsible for this unusual disorder. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Houghton AN,Shafi N,Rickles FR

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) may be the most frequent form of hereditary cancer. Genetic counseling and testing for heritable CRC is a promising approach for reducing the high incidence and mortality rates associated with the disease. Patients with CRC or those with at least one family member with the disease ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kinney AY,DeVellis BM,Skrzynia C,Millikan R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a modified Feulgen hydrolysis procedure and integrating microdensitometry, the acid-labile nuclear DNA in exfoliated cervical epithelial cells was quantified in a range of histologically confirmed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), invasive cancer, and normal controls. The mean relative optical densities ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Partington CK,Sincock AM,Steele SJ

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck cancer (H&N CA) patients have known depression of cell-mediated immunity. There is suggestive evidence that prostaglandin (PGE2)-secreting cells may be a major factor. The authors have sought to determine the role of PGE2-releasing monocytes-macrophages in this immune depression by determining the effect...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wanebo HJ,Riley T,Katz D,Pace RC,Johns ME,Cantrell RW

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The management of children with hypothalamic (H) and/or chiasmatic (C) tumors remains controversial. We evaluated the impact of clinical and neuroimaging parameters and primary therapy on overall (OS) and progression-free (PFS) survival and on neuroendocrine and neurocognitive outcome in children with H and/...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fouladi M,Wallace D,Langston JW,Mulhern R,Rose SR,Gajjar A,Sanford RA,Merchant TE,Jenkins JJ,Kun LE,Heideman RL

更新日期：2003-02-15 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：:The platinum-free interval is the most important predictive factor of a response to subsequent lines of chemotherapy and the most important prognostic factor for progression-free and overall survival in patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer. A nonplatinum regimen is generally considered the most appropriat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tomao F,D'Incalci M,Biagioli E,Peccatori FA,Colombo N

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) can be treated effectively with tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy directed at BCR-ABL, but access to care, medication cost, and adherence may be barriers to treatment. This study was designed to determine whether the insurance status at diagnosis influences CML patient outcomes...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Perry AM,Brunner AM,Zou T,McGregor KL,Amrein PC,Hobbs GS,Ballen KK,Neuberg DS,Fathi AT

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been evaluated in liver specimens from 11 children with primary liver tumors and negative results of serologic testing for HBV markers. HBV-DNA sequences were detected by the polymerase chain reaction procedure, using different sets of oligonucleotide primers from highly con...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pontisso P,Morsica G,Ruvoletto MG,Barzon M,Perilongo G,Basso G,Cecchetto G,Chemello L,Alberti A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from 133 patients with cancer and suspected compression of the spinal cord or cauda equina was reviewed. Although there were differences in presenting symptoms and signs between the group of 62 patients with compression and the 71 without, no single symptom or sign discriminated adequately between the two groups....

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bernat JL,Greenberg ER,Barrett J

更新日期：1983-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A Phase I/II accelerated fractionation study for high-grade cerebral astrocytomas began in October 1987. Forty-two patients, 25 men and 17 women, were entered in the study. Median age was 58.5 years of age (range, 32 to 78 years). Performance status was 0, 1, 2, and 3 on Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scale...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Shenouda G,Souhami L,Freeman CR,Hazel J,Lehnert S,Joseph L

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Western countries, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is usually advanced at presentation and is rarely diagnosed in situ. The authors studied an in situ squamous cell carcinoma that occupied the entire mucosa of a 9 cm length of esophagus, causing dysphagia for solid food in a woman aged 68 years. METHO...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chu P,Stagias J,West AB,Traube M

更新日期：1997-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Combined transperineal prostate brachytherapy and external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is widely used for treatment of prostate cancer. Long-term efficacy and toxicity results of a multicenter phase 2 trial assessing combination of EBRT and transperineal prostate brachytherapy boost with androgen deprivati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hurwitz MD,Halabi S,Archer L,McGinnis LS,Kuettel MR,DiBiase SJ,Small EJ

更新日期：2011-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess whether the effectiveness of a combination of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) and percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) is superior to PEI alone in the treatment of patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a randomized controlled study was performed. METHODS:Fifty-two pat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Koda M,Murawaki Y,Mitsuda A,Oyama K,Okamoto K,Idobe Y,Suou T,Kawasaki H

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A randomized, multicenter trial, double-blind for antiandrogen therapy, compared the antiandrogens bicalutamide and flutamide, each combined with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogue therapy (LHRH-A) in 813 patients with Stage D2 prostate carcinoma. An analysis of time to progression (median follow...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schellhammer PF,Sharifi R,Block NL,Soloway MS,Venner PM,Patterson AL,Sarosdy MF,Vogelzang NJ,Chen Y,Kolvenbag GJ

更新日期：1996-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recombinant tumor necrosis factor-alpha (rTNF-alpha) is a highly potential antineoplastic agent. However, its systemic administration in humans has resulted in a life-threatening septic shock-like syndrome, and its use has been abandoned. The administration of high dose rTNF-alpha and melphalan via isolated ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gutman M,Inbar M,Lev-Shlush D,Abu-Abid S,Mozes M,Chaitchik S,Meller I,Klausner JM

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical value of DNA flow cytometry of colorectal cancer is unclear. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the relationship between tumor flow cytometry, histopathologic parameters, and survival. METHODS:Flow cytometry was performed on paraffin embedded specimens from 653 patients who...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tang R,Ho YS,You YT,Hsu KC,Chen JS,Changchien CR,Wang JY

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, histological, and ultrastructural aspects of a cervical paraganglioma of the vagus nerve, in a 66-year-old white man, have been discussed in detail. Ultrastructurally, the tumor chief cells contained characteristic membrane-bound and dense-cored neurosecretory granules which ranged in size from 85 millim...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chaudhry AP,Haar JG,Koul A,Nickerson PA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment of localized prostate carcinoma (LPC) using radiotherapy (RT) can induce disturbances in a patient's quality of life (QOL) and urinary and intestinal function. Late symptoms and QOL were evaluated in a randomized trial between RT and deferred treatment (DT). METHODS:Quality of life was evaluated w...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fransson P,Damber JE,Tomic R,Modig H,Nyberg G,Widmark A

更新日期：2001-12-15 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：BACKGROUND:The authors reviewed changes in the initial clinical presentation, management techniques, and patterns of disease recurrence over time (1981-1996) in patients with breast carcinoma treated with breast-conserving therapy (BCT) at a single institution. The goals of the current study were to determine the frequ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pass H,Vicini FA,Kestin LL,Goldstein NS,Decker D,Pettinga J,Ingold J,Benitez P,Neumann K,Rebner M,Dekhne N,Martinez A

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 2b (MEN 2b) is a disorder characterized by C-cell disease of the thyroid gland (medullary carcinoma or C-cell hyperplasia, or both), pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis, and skeletal and connective tissue abnormalities. The medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is bilateral and multice...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Carney JA,Sizemore GW,Hayles AV

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tobacco smoking, alcohol abuse, and high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) are risk factors in the etiology of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs). The TP53 polymorphism, in which an arginine (R) is changed to proline (P) at codon 72, is functionally significant and could therefore be a predisposing ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Perrone F,Mariani L,Pastore E,Orsenigo M,Suardi S,Marcomini B,DaRiva L,Licitra L,Carbone A,Pierotti MA,Pilotti S

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was conducted to evaluate the long-term outcomes in patients with stage IE and IIE mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas treated with involved field radiotherapy (RT). METHODS:Between 1989 and 2004, 192 patients with stage I and II MALT lymphomas were treated. The report focuses on 1...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Goda JS,Gospodarowicz M,Pintilie M,Wells W,Hodgson DC,Sun A,Crump M,Tsang RW

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear whether palliative endourologic or percutaneous urinary diversion in the treatment of advanced cancer provides significant improvement in quality or duration of life. The purpose of this study was to evaluate survival and performance status after endourologic palliative urinary diversion in pat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Shekarriz B,Shekarriz H,Upadhyay J,Banerjee M,Becker H,Pontes JE,Wood DP Jr

更新日期：1999-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinicopathologic features and response to therapy of 28 patients with non-Ewing's flat bone sarcoma treated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, over a 25-year period were reviewed. Twenty-two patients had osteosarcoma, four malignant fibrous histiocytoma, one chondrosarcoma, and one fibr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kellie SJ,Pratt CB,Parham DM,Fleming ID,Meyer WH,Rao BN

更新日期：1990-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempted to determine the relationship of nutritional status, menopausal status, presence of breast cancer, stage of disease, and tumor estrogen receptor levels to percent non-protein-bound estradiol (%NPBE) and percent distribution of estradiol on sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and albumin in breast ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ota DM,Jones LA,Jackson GL,Jackson PM,Kemp K,Bauman D

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00