Patient issues in breast reconstruction.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Fuhrman grading system is an established predictor of survival in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The predictive accuracy of various Fuhrman grading schemes was tested with the intent of improving the prediction of RCC-specific survival (RCC-SS). METHODS:The analyses targeted 5453 patients fro...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rioux-Leclercq N,Karakiewicz PI,Trinh QD,Ficarra V,Cindolo L,de la Taille A,Tostain J,Zigeuner R,Mejean A,Patard JJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several pathologic staging systems for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) have been published, but none of them provide optimal survival stratification or stage distribution among patients treated with surgery. Interpretation of prior studies that correlate pathologic factors with outcome has been confound...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Richards WG,Godleski JJ,Yeap BY,Corson JM,Chirieac LR,Zellos L,Mujoomdar A,Jaklitsch MT,Bueno R,Sugarbaker DJ

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirty patients with histologically verified primary fibrosarcoma of bone, unassociated with any pre-existent benign bone condition, were treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center between 1918 and 1973. This series of cases represents approximately 5% of primary malignant bone tumors treated in our...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Huvos AG,Higinbotham NL

更新日期：1975-03-01 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：:Pulmonary fibrosis is a well-recognized complication of bleomycin therapy. Detection of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis by computed axial tomographic scanning (CT) has not been reported. We report on a patient in whom the development of lesions on chest CT scan following cessation of chemotherapy (including bleom...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nachman JB,Baum ES,White H,Cruissi FG

更新日期：1981-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize the clinical features of laboratory-confirmed influenza in 20 children and young adults with cancer who were receiving immunosuppressive therapy. Viruses isolated from pharyngeal and nasopharyngeal cultures were identified as the A/Hong Kong/1/68 strain or one of its varia...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Feldman S,Webster RG,Sugg M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study assessed the impact of surgical, histopathologic and patient-related factors on the risks of local and distant recurrence and overall survival for patients with stages I through IIIA nonsmall cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) undergoing definitive resection with or without adjuvant chemotherapy. METHOD...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Varlotto JM,Recht A,Flickinger JC,Medford-Davis LN,Dyer AM,Decamp MM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trimetrexate is an antifol that differs from methotrexate in ways that may be clinically important. Because methotrexate has activity in advanced bladder cancer, this trial was initiated. METHODS:Ambulatory patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma were treated with the nonclassic antifol trimetrexate at ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Witte RS,Elson P,Khandakar J,Trump DL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) experience higher morbidity and mortality from primary liver cancer than other United States (US) populations, but racial misclassification in medical records results in underestimates of disease burden. METHODS:To reduce misclassification, National Program of Can...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jim MA,Perdue DG,Richardson LC,Espey DK,Redd JT,Martin HJ,Kwong SL,Kelly JJ,Henderson JA,Ahmed F

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is sensitive to white matter changes in children receiving cranial radiation of 3000 cGy or greater. The current study used MRI to investigate the integrity of white matter in children receiving 1800 to 2400 cGy of cranial radiation. Ten survivors of ac...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kramer JH,Norman D,Brant-Zawadzki M,Ablin A,Moore IM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking and alcoholic beverage drinking habits as well as a family history of cancer are well known risk factors for the multifocal occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus and the head and neck region. However, the role of these risk factors in multiple gastric carcinoma remains to be clarifie...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Morita M,Kuwano H,Baba H,Taketomi A,Kohnoe S,Tomoda H,Araki K,Saeki H,Kitamura K,Sugimachi K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:: Survival rates for gastrointestinal (GI) and bronchopulmonary (BP) neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have not altered significantly (5-year survival rate: GI NETs, 64.1%; BP NETs, 87%-89%) in 30 years (from 1973 to 2004). No effective or specific antineoplastic agents are available to date, although somatostati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Drozdov I,Kidd M,Gustafsson BI,Svejda B,Joseph R,Pfragner R,Modlin IM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 273 unselected patients with bronchial carcinoma, comprising a total prospective 5-year study from a Swedish county with an observed 5-year survival of 7.0%, is presented. The autopsy rate in deceased patients was 94%. All diagnoses were histologically or cytologically verified. The 5-year survival rates f...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nõu E

更新日期：1984-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with ALL having poor prognostic features developed clinical and laboratory evidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Two developed a bleeding diathesis associated temporally with a rapid drop in blast cell counts during induction therapy with L-asparaginase, prednisone, and vincristine. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Champion LA,Luddy RE,Schwartz AD

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data are frequently used to examine receipt of adjuvant radiotherapy (RT), but to the authors' knowledge the accuracy of data regarding second-course treatments is unknown. METHODS:Using SEER-Medicare-linked data, the authors identified a cohort of men who ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wang K,Sheets NC,Basak R,Chen RC

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-year Memorial Hospital experience with 146 patients with malignant mixed tumor is reviewed. These comprised 5% of 2,743 patients who were treated for salivary neoplasms from 1939 through 1968. The tumors arose in the parotid gland in 108 patients, submaxillary gland in 23 patients, mucus or so-called minor saliva...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Spiro RH,Huvos AG,Strong EW

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, there is no gold standard for the treatment of patients with metastatic breast carcinoma who have experienced failure with anthracyclines and taxanes. A biologic rationale suggests that the mechanism of taxane resistance could be because of an excess of depolymerized tubulin that could enhance sen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zelek L,Barthier S,Riofrio M,Fizazi K,Rixe O,Delord JP,Le Cesne A,Spielmann M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A clinicopathologic evaluation of clinical Stage I and II uterine sarcoma was done by the Gynecologic Oncology Group from 1979-1988. METHODS:After all eligibility criteria were met, 453 cases were evaluable and analyzed for prognostic factors. RESULTS:Of the 301 mixed mesodermal tumors (MMT), 167 were homo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Major FJ,Blessing JA,Silverberg SG,Morrow CP,Creasman WT,Currie JL,Yordan E,Brady MF

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors are interested in identifying molecular markers that can aid in the diagnosis of adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC). The aim of this study was to identify microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) that are differentially expressed in malignant adrenocortical tumors as compared with benign tumors and assess their po...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Patterson EE,Holloway AK,Weng J,Fojo T,Kebebew E

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral tongue cancer incidence has increased among whites in the United States; however, the cause remains unknown. If an infectious agent is implicated, then elevated risk would be expected among immunosuppressed individuals. METHODS:By using population-based registry linkage information from the US Transpla...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tota JE,Engels EA,Madeleine MM,Clarke CA,Lynch CF,Ortiz AP,Hernandez BY,Chaturvedi AK

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Image-directed biopsies may be collected as histologic or cytologic specimens. METHODS:In 34 patients, the results of aspiration cytologic examination were compared prospectively with core tissue biopsy findings obtained and diagnosed independently using the same image-guided procedure. RESULTS:Cytologic e...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jonasson JG,Wang HH,Porter DH,Tyagi G,Ducatman BS

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoblasts from "null cell" acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) were analyzed for the pattern of proliferation displayed in a mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR), the presence of a B cell surface antigen, and for the presence of intracytoplasmic immunoglobulin (ICIg). "Null cell" ALL was defined by cytologic and cytochemic...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Davey FR,Dock NL,Wolos JA,Terzian JA,Gottlieb AJ

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of ligand-independent ESR1 mutations during aromatase inhibitor therapy in metastatic estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer is a common mechanism of hormonal therapy resistance. Preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that ESR1 mutations can preexist in primary tumors and can be enri...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dustin D,Gu G,Fuqua SAW

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a man with ulcerating skin nodules who was diagnosed by histologic and immunohistologic analysis of skin biopsy specimens as having lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LYG). Phenotypic studies showed the majority of the infiltrating cells to be activated CD4+ T-lymphocytes. The disease followed a rapid...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Atkinson CH,Davis AL,Colls BM,Wolever TH,Burry AF,Hart DN

更新日期：1989-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell sarcoma is an indolent tumor of uncertain histogenesis. Twenty-seven patients ranging in age from 9 to 57 years (average, 28.5 years) were followed an average of 7.0 years. Females outnumbered males by 2 to 1. Distal extremity locations predominated. At presentation, the tumor was localized in 21 patients, ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Eckardt JJ,Pritchard DJ,Soule EH

更新日期：1983-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two patients seen between 1975 and 1988 were analyzed who had surgical attempts to cure locally advanced prostate cancer by exenterative procedures or salvage surgery for radiation recurrent disease. Twelve patients (Group I) underwent either a salvage cystoprostatectomy or perineal prostatectomy for radiorecur...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Moul JW,Paulson DF

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) complete response (PSA-CR), measured at the end of external-beam radiotherapy and short-term hormone therapy, on treatment outcomes. METHODS:The phase 3 Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 9413 trial, as part of its origi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cury FL,Hunt D,Roach M 3rd,Shipley W,Gore E,Hsu IC,Krisch RE,Seider MJ,Sandler H,Lawton C

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:The reported frequency of gastrointestinal (GI) tract involvement in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is 15-30%. However, this figure most likely is an underestimate because most patients with MCL involving the GI tract previously reported were examined endoscopically only if they had GI tract sympto...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Romaguera JE,Medeiros LJ,Hagemeister FB,Fayad LE,Rodriguez MA,Pro B,Younes A,McLaughlin P,Goy A,Sarris AH,Dang NH,Samaniego F,Brown HM,Gagneja HK,Cabanillas F

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated that OK-432 is a potent biologic response modifier (BRM) and that it augments immune responses to tumor cells. We studied the direct effect of OK-432 on tumor cells. Established and freshly derived human ovarian carcinoma lines were examined for their susceptibility to OK-432 or its sub...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nio Y,Zighelboim J,Berek J,Bonavida B

更新日期：1989-07-15 00:00:00