Advances in medical imaging for cancer diagnosis and treatment.

abstract：:The activity of the alpha interferons against AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) has been demonstrated in numerous clinical trials. Unfortunately, most reports have involved small patient cohorts and a variety of dosages and schedules of administration. We report here a series of Phase II trials with interferon alfa-2...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Volberding PA,Mitsuyasu RT,Golando JP,Spiegel RJ

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was conducted to assess the risk factors associated with the development of a contralateral primary breast cancer among women who had had a first primary breast cancer. Hospital records were reviewed for 292 women with an incident contralateral breast cancer, diagnosed in one of eight hospitals be...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Horn PL,Thompson WD

更新日期：1988-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although ascites cytology is important for therapeutic strategies, it is difficult to distinguish cancer infiltration from reactive mesothelial proliferation in some patients. In this study, the authors applied CDX2 immunocytochemistry to improve diagnostic accuracy. METHODS:The authors examined the distrib...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kobayashi M,Ueyama Y,Nakanishi H,Ishida H,Takahashi E,Nakamura S,Koshikawa T,Yatabe Y

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid radiofrequency heating system previously reported to produce highly focused heating patterns at less than or equal to 10 cm depth in phantom models was utilized to selectively heat hypervascular, heat resistant rabbit V-2 tumors implanted in the left hindlimb. Spheroidal heating patterns 3 to 4 cm in diameter...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Boddie AW Jr,Merritt DR,Yamanashi W,Frazer JW,McBride CM,Martin RG

更新日期：1985-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health insurance is a key mediator of health care disparities. Outcomes in bladder cancer, one of the costliest diseases to treat, may be especially sensitive to a patient's insurance status. METHODS:The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry and the National Cancer Data Base were used to iden...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fletcher SA,Cole AP,Lu C,Marchese M,Krimphove MJ,Friedlander DF,Mossanen M,Kilbridge KL,Kibel AS,Trinh QD

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether fatherhood status affects prostate cancer risk remains controversial. Recently, it was proposed that childless men are at lower prostate cancer risk than men with children and that men with sons may be at lower risk than men with daughters only. METHODS:National population-based register data were u...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jørgensen KT,Pedersen BV,Johansen C,Frisch M

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein that maintains telomeric base pair repeats at the ends of mammalian chromosomes during DNA replication. Telomerase is expressed in various human tumors, some normal tissues, and immortalized cell lines. The assay of telomerase activity has potential as an adjunct for cancer ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mu XC,Brien TP,Ross JS,Lowry CV,McKenna BJ

更新日期：1999-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quantified, human hemoglobin (Hb)-specific, immunochemical fecal occult blood test (IFOBT) measurements are now used for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. The objective was to evaluate sensitivity and specificity for CRC and advanced adenomatous polyps (APs) by the fecal Hb threshold used to determine a pos...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rozen P,Comaneshter D,Levi Z,Hazazi R,Vilkin A,Maoz E,Birkenfeld S,Niv Y

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant who presented with a thigh mass and coagulopathy was found to have a hemangioendothelioma. The tumor rapidly enlarged despite accepted therapeutic modalities, and the child died after a sudden cardiac arrest. Postmortem examination revealed a highly invasive tumor mass that had infiltrated the bowel and invo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Weinblatt ME,Kahn E,Kochen JA

更新日期：1984-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with advanced head and neck squamous carcinoma, the National Cancer Institute initiated a multi-institutional, prospective randomized trial termed the Head and Neck Contracts Program. Between 1978 and 1982, 462 patients with resectable Stage III or IV canc...

journal_title：Cancer

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更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with ER positive primary tumors usually have initial metastases at the more favorable sites. Twelve out of 14 patients with ER positive had first site of metastases in either bone or soft tissue. In contrast, 13 of 17 patients with negative ER developed first metastases in viscera. ER positive patients respon...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Singhakowinta A,Saunders DE,Brooks SC,Samal B,Vaitkevicius VK

更新日期：1980-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of assay for estrogen receptor (ER) in the tumor cytosol and thymidine labeling indices (TLI) of 63 primary invasive carcinomas of the breast were analyzed. The ER assay was performed by using dextran-charcoal to adsorb unbound tritiated estradiol-17beta (E2) in cytosol. The TLI was measured as the number ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Meyer JS,Rao BR,Stevens SC,White WL

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although primary gastric lymphoma is the most common extranodal lymphoma, no specific staging system exists. METHODS:The authors reviewed 98 cases histologically classified according to the Working Formulation, including low grade B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue type. Survival rates wer...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Shimodaira M,Tsukamoto Y,Niwa Y,Goto H,Hase S,Hayakawa T,Nagasaka T

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative analysis on glycosaminoglycan (GAG) in the tumor tissues of five patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma and in the pleural fluid of two patients was performed with the use of biochemical methods. In the tumor tissues, it was found that the average of the total amount of GAG was more than 7.9 tim...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nakano T,Fujii J,Tamura S,Amuro Y,Nabeshima K,Horai T,Hada T,Higashino K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors purpose in this study was to clarify the difference in terms of clinicopathologic features between gastric cancer (GC) with high numbers of DNA methylated genes and CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP)-positive GC as originally defined. METHODS:We analyzed DNA methylation of 12 tumor-related g...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Oue N,Mitani Y,Motoshita J,Matsumura S,Yoshida K,Kuniyasu H,Nakayama H,Yasui W

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemotherapy improves survival for patients with stage III colon cancer, but some older patients with lymph node-positive colon cancer do not see a medical oncologist and, thus, do not receive adjuvant chemotherapy. METHODS:To evaluate the role of the surgeon in determining referrals to medical oncology amo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Luo R,Giordano SH,Zhang DD,Freeman J,Goodwin JS

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bloody nipple discharge is a significant clue in the detection of ductal carcinoma of the breast. In the past, pathologic diagnoses were obtained exclusively via excision, but recently developed mammoscopic techniques have been found to yield valuable information relating to the diagnosis of intraductal lesi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Matsunaga T,Kawakami Y,Namba K,Fujii M

更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of case-control studies was conducted to investigate cancer risks among farmers. These studies were based on Missouri Cancer Registry data for 15,000 white male patients, including 1720 subjects classified as farmers, registered between 1984 and 1988. For each cancer site, all other cancer registrations forme...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brownson RC,Reif JS,Chang JC,Davis JR

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometry studies of the DNA distribution of tumor cells from 92 human breast cancers showed measurable aneuploidy (hyperploidy) in 83 cases (92%). The DNA ploidy values were unimodal in each case, but there was a bimodal distribution for the entire series. One group of tumors had a diploid or near diploid DNA di...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Olszewski W,Darzynkiewicz Z,Rosen PP,Schwartz MK,Melamed MR

更新日期：1981-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher serum iron and ferritin levels noted in hepatitis B antigen (HBAg) carriers than in noncarriers suggests that virus might actively replicate in hepatocytes, stimulate ferritin synthesis, and result in increased liver iron stores. A comparative semiquantitative study of immunohistochemical ferritin (0-12) and he...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cohen C,Berson SD,Shulman G,Budgeon LR

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histiocytic medullary reticulosis (HMR) was originally defined as a neoplastic disorder. Some cases reported as HMR have been characterized by a systemic proliferation of mature histiocytes showing hemophagocytosis, bone marrow necrosis, pancytopenia, hepatitis, and coagulopathy. Clinically, these patients have fever ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Risdall RJ,Brunning RD,Hernandez JI,Gordon DH

更新日期：1984-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) followed by irradiation was attempted to improve response to therapy by cutaneous metastases from malignant skin melanomas. Both agents were applied in low doses, known to cause minimal side effects. Nineteen patients, divided into three groups, entered the clinical trial....

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Plesnicar S,Rudolf Z

更新日期：1982-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous reports based on small patient numbers suggested that changes in serum HER-2/neu levels may predict response or lack of response to trastuzumab-based therapies in metastatic breast cancer (MBC). The objectives of this study were to pool data from 307 patients with MBC from 7 medical institutions to ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ali SM,Carney WP,Esteva FJ,Fornier M,Harris L,Köstler WJ,Lotz JP,Luftner D,Pichon MF,Lipton A,Serum HER-2\/neu Study Group.

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an analysis of 47 leukemia patients (including 9 from our own medical center) whose courses were complicated by 48 episodes of clostridial septicemia. There were 36 adults and 11 children; acute myelogenous leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia accounted for 61.7% and 14.9% of cases, respectivel...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Caya JG,Farmer SG,Ritch PS,Wollenberg NJ,Tieu TM,Oechler HW,Spivey M

更新日期：1986-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The greatest decrease in breast cancer mortality is likely to derive from applying globally existing therapies at an earlier stage. A high priority of the World Health Organization (WHO) cancer control program is the outreach approach that promotes worldwide access to cancer therapies of proven values. Therefore, the ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Koroltchouk V,Stanley K,Stjernswärd J

更新日期：1990-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tyrosine kinases, such as c-KIT, c-ABL, and platelet-derived growth factor-beta (PDGFR-beta), are important regulators of cell growth. Highly potent and selective inhibitors of tyrosine kinases are being investigated as alternatives to standard chemotherapy. One such inhibitor, imatinib mesylate, is being us...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schmandt RE,Broaddus R,Lu KH,Shvartsman H,Thornton A,Malpica A,Sun C,Bodurka DC,Gershenson DM

更新日期：2003-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research suggests that patients' end-of-life (EOL) care is determined primarily by the medical resources available, and not by patient preferences. The authors examined whether patients' desire for life-extending therapy was associated with their EOL care. METHODS:Coping with Cancer is a multisite, prospect...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wright AA,Mack JW,Kritek PA,Balboni TA,Massaro AF,Matulonis UA,Block SD,Prigerson HG

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gemcitabine-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is believed to be very rare, with an estimated incidence rate of 0.015%. Indications for gemcitabine are expanding, and comprehensive characterization of this complication is therefore important. METHODS:The authors performed a retrospective chart revi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Humphreys BD,Sharman JP,Henderson JM,Clark JW,Marks PW,Rennke HG,Zhu AX,Magee CC

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trabecular carcinoma of the skin (Merkel cell tumor), a neoplasm of putative neural origin, must be differentiated from other small cell tumors primary or metastatic to skin. In order to provide more objective diagnostic criteria, four were examined using monoclonal antibodies against neurofilament proteins (NF) and a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Leff EL,Brooks JS,Trojanowski JQ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glembatumumab vedotin is an antibody-drug conjugate that produced preliminary clinical activity against advanced melanoma in a phase 1 dose-escalation trial. The objective of the current study was to investigate further the antitumor activity of glembatumumab vedotin at the recommended phase 2 dose in heavil...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ott PA,Pavlick AC,Johnson DB,Hart LL,Infante JR,Luke JJ,Lutzky J,Rothschild NE,Spitler LE,Cowey CL,Alizadeh AR,Salama AK,He Y,Hawthorne TR,Bagley RG,Zhang J,Turner CD,Hamid O

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00