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abstract：:A case of thymoma in a 12-year-old boy is presented. The patient had a history of thymic irradiation in infancy, and a family history of leukemia. The mass was readily resected and the patient is well 10 years later. The tumor contained an unusual admixture of normal thymic tissue with the neoplastic epithelial elemen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chatten J,Katz SM

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A distinctive glycopeptide, which acts as an acceptor for a cancer-associated galactosyltransferase, has been detected in sera and effusions of patients with extensive carcinoma. Cancer-associated galactosyltransferase acceptor (CAGA) purified from human malignant effusions was tested for its effects on cell growth in...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Podolsky DK,Isselbacher KJ

更新日期：1980-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1, 1980, and July 31, 1985, 168 patients were treated at our institution for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Splenectomy was performed on 32 (23 men and 9 women). The mean age of these surgical patients was 59.4 years (range, 43-75). Twenty-four patients had received chemotherapy and/or corticother...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Delpero JR,Gastaut JA,Letreut YP,Caamano A,Mathieu-Tubiana N,Maraninchi D,Simon-Lejeune C,Mascret B,Blanc AP,Sebahoun G

更新日期：1987-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadal dosimetry and spermatogenic activity was monitored in patients given radiation therapy (RT) after unilateral orchiectomy for seminoma. The RT given was, with minor variations, 3200 rad in 16 fractions in four weeks to the para-aortic and ipsilateral pelvic inguinal lymphatics in order to include the orchiectom...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hahn EW,Feingold SM,Simpson L,Batata M

更新日期：1982-07-15 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: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：BACKGROUND:This retrospective study evaluated the benefit of using tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and melphalan administered via an isolated limb perfusion (ILP) in a series of patients with metastatic melanoma who failed initial ILP with chemotherapeutics. METHODS:Seventeen patients with extremity melanoma who underwent...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bartlett DL,Ma G,Alexander HR,Libutti SK,Fraker DL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing scientific attention is focused on the gut-brain axis, including the ability of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to modulate central nervous system function. Changes in the intestinal microbiome can influence affective-like behavior, cognitive performance, fatigue, and sleep in rodents and humans. Patients w...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jordan KR,Loman BR,Bailey MT,Pyter LM

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pleomorphic liposarcoma (PLS) is a rare high-grade sarcoma that has lipoblastic differentiation. In this study, the authors evaluated PLS natural history, patient outcomes, and commonly deregulated protein biomarkers. METHODS:Medical records from patients (n = 155) who had PLS from 1993 to 2010 were reviewe...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ghadimi MP,Liu P,Peng T,Bolshakov S,Young ED,Torres KE,Colombo C,Hoffman A,Broccoli D,Hornick JL,Lazar AJ,Pisters P,Pollock RE,Lev D

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all patients with prostatic cancer will eventually escape the control of the first-line endocrine therapy and relapse. This escape is attributed to selecting and/or cloning preexisting or de novo appearing hormone-independent or resistant cell lines and occurs in most patients after a median time of 12 to 18 mo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mahler C,Denis L

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To the authors' knowledge, comprehensive human pathologic investigations that explore fundamental radiosurgical effects on metastatic brain tumors are sparse in the literature. The objective of this study was to analyze histopathologic findings in a set of clinically recurrent cerebral metastases after patie...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Szeifert GT,Atteberry DS,Kondziolka D,Levivier M,Lunsford LD

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The techniques of self breast examination and the clinical examination of the breasts are described briefly. The potential value and the limitations of these tests in screening for breast cancer are reviewed. In a Cancer Society Monograph in 1958, Haagensen said, "It is probable that, from the point of view of the gre...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Venet L

更新日期：1980-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neopterin, a pyrazinopyrimidine compound, is a marker of activation of cell-mediated immunity. Urinary neopterin concentrations were measured in a total of 44 patients with uterine sarcomas. Pretherapeutic neopterin excretions were elevated in 78% (14/18). The mean neopterin concentration of patients with sarcomas was...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fuith LC,Fuchs D,Hausen A,Hetzel H,Reibnegger G,Werner ER,Wachter H

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors studied the benefit of performing histopathologic grading and DNA ploidy characterization with respect to patient survival in a series of 206 astrocytomas (AST) for which they obtained 134 complete clinical follow-ups. METHODS:The material analyzed came from archival material, i.e., formalin-fix...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Salmon I,Kiss R,Dewitte O,Gras T,Pasteels JL,Brotchi J,Flament-Durand J

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastric carcinoma with lymphoid stroma (GCLS) has been reported to have a more favorable prognosis than ordinary gastric carcinoma, however, the precise mechanism of the pathogenesis for GCLS remains unclear. METHODS:The authors analyzed 99 GCLS in 94 patients for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) sequences using po...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nakamura S,Ueki T,Yao T,Ueyama T,Tsuneyoshi M

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Children of different racial/ethnic backgrounds have varying risks of cancer. However, to the authors' knowledge, few studies to date have examined cancer occurrence in children of mixed ancestry. METHODS:This population-based case-control study examined cancer among children aged <15 years using linked can...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chow EJ,Puumala SE,Mueller BA,Carozza SE,Fox EE,Horel S,Johnson KJ,McLaughlin CC,Reynolds P,Von Behren J,Spector LG

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of resistance to purine analogs defines a poor-risk subset of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Although in recent years chemoimmunotherapeutic combinations such as fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab have induced response rates of 95% in previously untreated patients and incre...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tsimberidou AM,Keating MJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The altered expression of the human retinoblastoma (RB) gene has been demonstrated to play an important role in the pathogenesis of RB and other tumors. To determine whether the RB gene might be involved in the pathogenesis of human ovarian and endometrial cancer, DNA from 24 human ovarian tumors, 3 normal ovaries, 3 ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sasano H,Comerford J,Silverberg SG,Garrett CT

更新日期：1990-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although protein expressions of glucocorticoid receptor (GR), estrogen receptors (ERα and ERβ), progesterone receptor A (PgR-A), and androgen receptor (AR) were shown to play roles in the growth and differentiation of normal thymus and thymic tumors, to the authors' knowledge their association with patient c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mimae T,Tsuta K,Takahashi F,Yoshida A,Kondo T,Murakami Y,Okada M,Takeuchi M,Asamura H,Tsuda H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) antigen was determined by radioimmunoassay in the serum of 40 untreated patients with SCC of the oromaxillofacial region. The mean (+/- SEM) serum concentration for these patients (3.8 +/- 0.8 ng/ml) was significantly higher than that of 52 disease-free patients coming to routine post...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fischbach W,Meyer T,Barthel K

更新日期：1990-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The data of an epidemiologic study of multiple primary malignant neoplasms in breast cancer patients in Israel are presented. During the 18-year period of the study 12,302 cases of breast carcinoma were diagnosed, and, of these, 984 patients (8%) had multiple primary malignant tumors. Forty-seven of these patients dev...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schenker JG,Levinsky R,Ohel G

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical guidelines recommend against routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for older men and for those with lower life expectancies. The authors of this report examined providers' decision-making regarding discontinuing PSA screening. METHODS:A survey of primary providers from a large, universi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pollack CE,Platz EA,Bhavsar NA,Noronha G,Green GE,Chen S,Carter HB

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite improvements in survival rates, cancer treatments have significant side effects that affect the quality of life of children and their families. When an ill child cannot self-report symptoms (eg, he or she is too ill), caregiver (parent) reporting becomes critical. This study evaluates the validity an...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Reeve BB,McFatrich M,Lin L,Lucas NR,Mack JW,Jacobs SS,Withycombe JS,Baker JN,Freyer DR,Hinds PS

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactivity of serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) from 20 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with immobilized lentil lectin was examined and found to be significantly greater (39% +/- 18%) than that of the same protein from seven patients with chronic liver disease (CLD, 11.2% +/- 3.3%), seven with fulminant h...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Du MQ,Hutchinson WL,Johnson PJ,Williams R

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant schwannomas with rhabdomyoblastic differentiation have been termed malignant "Triton" tumors (MTT). To define the natural history of MTT, we have analyzed our experience (9 cases, the largest series reported) in combination with the 27 previously described in the literature (total 36 cases). This study was i...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brooks JS,Freeman M,Enterline HT

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ependymomas originating in the sacrum or extraspinal parasacral soft tissues are rare tumors. The majority are of the myxopapillary type and may be locally destructive. Even though metastases are not uncommon in retrosacral ependymomas, they have been rarely described in intrasacral locations. A case is reported of a ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Miralbell R,Louis DN,O'Keeffe D,Rosenberg AE,Suit HD

更新日期：1990-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraneoplastic nervous system syndromes are being identified with increasing frequency because of greater physician awareness and the availability of serodiagnostic tests for some syndromes. Frequently, paraneoplastic syndromes develop in the setting of an indolent, limited stage, or otherwise occult malignancy. As a ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Glantz MJ,Biran H,Myers ME,Gockerman JP,Friedberg MH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in skeletal muscle mass of 14 children with newly diagnosed acute leukemia were studied during the first 24 weeks of antileukemia therapy. A muscle index was calculated from the femoral quadriceps muscle thickness, measured by using an ultrasound method, and from the body surface area. Serum albumin concen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Koskelo EK,Saarinen UM,Siimes MA

更新日期：1990-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer rates in immigrant populations are frequently found to be intermediate between the country of origin and the adopted country. Such observations play an important role in establishing the environmental origin of cancer. Chinese now constitute the third largest group immigrating to New York City. METHO...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Stellman SD,Wang QS

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00