Temozolomide for recurrent low-grade spinal cord gliomas in adults.

abstract：:Despite the fact that expression of Fas ligand (FasL) in cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and in natural killer (NK) cells plays an important role in Fas-mediated tumor killing, During tumor progression FasL-expressing tumor cells are involved in counterattacking to kill tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Soluble Fa...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kim R,Emi M,Tanabe K,Uchida Y,Toge T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While using the natural killer (NK) cell-associated HNK-1 antibody in a panel of hematopoietic cell markers, the authors found that metastatic tumor cells in the bone marrow of a patient with disseminated prostatic carcinoma stained strongly with this antibody using an indirect immunofluorescence technique. More than ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rusthoven JJ,Robinson JB,Kolin A,Pinkerton PH

更新日期：1985-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirty-five hepatocellular carcinomas were examined for the presence of antigenic tumor markers by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method. Ninety-seven were from the US and 38 came from Argentina. The following markers were tested: alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT), hepatitis B surfac...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chedid A,Chejfec G,Eichorst M,Villamil F,Terg R,Telenta M,Hojman R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The demonstration of the monoclonality of immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene rearrangement is an indispensable method for the diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma as well as histocytochemical analysis. For the detection of IgH gene rearrangement, the extraction of DNA from a homogenous cell population is necessar...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Orba Y,Tanaka S,Nishihara H,Kawamura N,Itoh T,Shimizu M,Sawa H,Nagashima K

更新日期：2003-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen patients with carcinoma confined to the pancreas and the peripancreatic area received preoperative radiation therapy in an attempt to increase the resectability rate and to reduce the incidence of recurrence. The tumors were considered either unresectable or of borderline resectability. The radiation dose ra...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pilepich MV,Miller HH

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PC-SPES is an herbal supplement whose mechanisms of action are poorly understood, but may be estrogenic. The objective of the current report is to describe the effects of discontinuing PC-SPES treatment in four patients with androgen-independent prostate carcinoma. METHODS:Patient charts were retrospectivel...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Oh WK,George DJ,Kantoff PW

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-related oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) have improved survival when compared with those with HPV-negative OPC. Unfortunately, the American Joint Committee on Cancer seventh edition (AJCC-7ed) staging system does not account for the prognostic advantage observed with HPV-po...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Malm IJ,Fan CJ,Yin LX,Li DX,Koch WM,Gourin CG,Pitman KT,Richmon JD,Westra WH,Kang H,Quon H,Eisele DW,Fakhry C

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to present planning, feasibility, toxicity, and outcome of helical tomotherapy for spinal cord-sparing reirradiation of spinal metastases and tumors. METHODS:Thirty-six patients with spinal metastases and tumors who had undergone previous radiotherapy were reirradiated with hel...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sterzing F,Hauswald H,Uhl M,Herm H,Wiener A,Herfarth K,Debus J,Krempien R

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this retrospective study, the degree of differentiation of atypical lymphoid cells was assessed in pretreatment cutaneous biopsy specimens from 248 patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome) and the findings were correlated with the subsequent therapeutic results. Overall, pati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vonderheid EC,Tam DW,Johnson WC,Van Scott EJ,Wallner PE

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute non-lymphocytic leukemia occurred in eight women following long-term treatment with Treosulfan (= dihydroxybusulfan) for ovarian carcinoma. The leukemia developed from 21 to 58 months (median 50 months) after the institution of chemotherapy. At the time when the leukemia appeared seven of the patients were in co...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pedersen-Bjergaard J,Nissen NI,Sørensen HM,Hou-Jensen K,Larsen MS,Ernst P,Ersbøl J,Knudtzon S,Rose C

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three leukemic children were studied prospectively to detect chronic effects of therapy. All patients received CNS prophylaxis, including 2400 R cranial irradiation, and intermittent maintenance therapy with intravenous methotrexate, cyclophosphamide and cytosine arabinoside. Neurologic symptoms were observed i...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： McIntosh S,Klatskin EH,O'Brien RT,Aspnes GT,Kammerer BL,Snead C,Kalavsky SM,Pearson HA

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only three previous reports on the ultrastructural appearance of tibial adamantinoma have been found among some 120 cases of this tumor reported in the literature. The tumor in our case is less differentiated than the cases previously reported. We believe it is of epithelial character and the possibilities of its hist...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yoneyama T,Winter WG,Milsow L

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In less than a century, lung cancer has progressed from a medical curiosity to the most deadly of all malignant diseases on our planet. Because cigarette smoking is responsible for the existing global lung cancer epidemic, policy initiatives have focused almost exclusively on primary prevention. There is no ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Strauss GM,Dominioni L

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:In January, 1972, the Southwest Oncology Group initiated two randomized studies for patients with advanced breast cancer. The study for patients with prior chemotherapy showed a 33% response rate with adriamycin. The study for patients without previous chemotherapy consisted of three treatment regimens; a weekly repea...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hoogstraten B,George SL,Samal B,Rivkin SE,Costanzi JJ,Bonnet JD,Thigpen T,Braine H

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite few effective therapies, only a small percentage of patients diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in the United States are enrolled in prospective, interventional clinical trials. MDS-specific barriers to trial accrual include a high frequency of elderly patients with comorbid conditions, atypical di...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Steensma DP,Brunner AM,DeZern AE,Garcia-Manero G,Komrokji RS,Odenike OS,Roboz GJ,Savona MR,Stone RM,Sekeres MA

更新日期：2018-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic medullary carcinoma of the breast is unusual. This report describes five patients with medullary carcinoma who presented clinically with a breast cyst. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (NAB) was performed as part of the initial physical examination and the retrieved cyst fluid was examined cytologically. Four of t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Howell LP,Kline TS

更新日期：1990-01-15 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:Increasingly, the quality of life (QOL) of women diagnosed with breast carcinoma is being studied. However, there is little information regarding long term survivors among ethnic minority women. The purpose of this study was to describe the QOL of long term breast carcinoma survivors (BCS) and to examine the...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ashing-Giwa K,Ganz PA,Petersen L

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lack of comparable metrics to evaluate prevention and early detection patient navigation programs impeded the ability to identify best practices. METHODS:The Prevention and Early Detection Workgroup of the Patient Navigation Leadership Summit was charged with making recommendations for common clinical m...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Battaglia TA,Burhansstipanov L,Murrell SS,Dwyer AJ,Caron SE,Prevention and Early Detection Workgroup, National Patient Navigation Leadership Summit.

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with a localized primary liposarcoma of the extremity who were treated in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center between 1968 and 1978 were studied. The prognosis of patients with extremity liposarcoma was analyzed according to histopathologic subtypes. A system of five subtypes was used; well-differentiated,...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chang HR,Hajdu SI,Collin C,Brennan MF

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resistance to apoptosis is 1 of the key events that confer chemoresistance and is mediated by the overexpression of antiapoptotic proteins, which inhibit caspase activation. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the activation of an alternative, caspase-independent cell death pathway could prom...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Alvero AB,Montagna MK,Chen R,Kim KH,Kyungjin K,Visintin I,Fu HH,Brown D,Mor G

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Massachusetts vital event data for 1969--1972 were used to develop correlations between mortality rates for malignant diseases and other causes of death over the 34 health planning subdivisions of the state. A significant correlation was found between the mortality rates for cancer of the colon and rectum and ischemic...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lipworth LL,Rice CA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors observed the clinical course of 24 women with surgically removed prolactinomas for a mean postoperative interval of 62 months. The frequency of late tumor recurrence and probable factors responsible for the recurrence were investigated. Hyperprolactinemia recurred in 4 of 13 patients with microadenomas (31...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Parl FF,Cruz VE,Cobb CA,Bradley CA,Aleshire SL

更新日期：1986-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colonoscopy is the most widely used colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test in the United States. Through the detection and removal of potentially precancerous polyps, it can prevent CRC. However, CRC screening remains low among adults who are recommended for screening. The New Hampshire Colorectal Cancer Scr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rice K,Sharma K,Li C,Butterly L,Gersten J,DeGroff A

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite relatively high response rates to chemotherapy for ovarian carcinoma, most patients eventually will have progressive disease that will require additional therapy. Most efforts to study such second-line or "salvage" chemotherapy have been single-arm trials of small numbers of patients, which report widely varia...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Thigpen JT,Vance RB,Khansur T

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, new cytotoxic treatments and targeted therapies have altered treatment paradigms for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We sought to analyze the impact of histology and biomarker selection criteria on outcomes of clinical trials in metastatic NSCLC reported over the last...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gentzler RD,Yentz SE,Johnson ML,Rademaker AW,Patel JD

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostatic cancer is an unusual malignancy because, commonly, it is slowly progressive and occurs at an age where the patient's life expectancy is short as a result of considerable competing mortality rates from other diseases. In addition, the place of radical surgery, i.e., radical prostatectomy is still no...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Smith PH,Parmar MK

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1963 an electron beam became available, making irradiation of the chest wall technically easy. In addition to peripheral lymphatic irradiation in patients with positive axillary nodes and/or the tumor in the inner quadrants or centrally located, patients with tumor larger than 5 cm or with grave signs and/or a sign...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tapley ND,Spanos WJ Jr,Fletcher GH,Montague ED,Schell S,Oswald MJ

更新日期：1982-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 25 patients with head and neck cancer who had severe pain, the type and cause of the pain were analyzed. There were two types of pain: nociceptive and non-nociceptive. Nineteen (76%) patients had nociceptive pain that could be subdivided into actual nociceptive pain (9 patients), nociceptive nerve pain ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vecht CJ,Hoff AM,Kansen PJ,de Boer MF,Bosch DA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00