The control of breast cancer. A World Health Organization perspective.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytogenetics and multicolor flow cytometry (MFC) are useful tools for monitoring outcome of treatment in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, no data are available regarding the meaning of results when the 2 tests do not agree. METHODS:The authors of this report analyzed 1464 pairs of concurrent cytogenet...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fang M,Storer B,Wood B,Gyurkocza B,Sandmaier BM,Appelbaum FR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteosarcomas are typically long bone tumors and rarely affect the skull, with most articles reporting single cases. As elsewhere in the body, these lesions may be classified as primary or secondary, chiefly post-Paget and post-radiation therapy. METHODS:The authors reviewed the osteosarcomas of the skull d...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Salvati M,Ciappetta P,Raco A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) was studied by analysis of eight such cases which presented over a 25-year period. Rhabdomyosarcoma was the fourth most common oral sarcoma (7.5%) from this period after osteosarcoma (32%), fibrosarcoma (19%), and chondrosarcoma (9%). In patients younger than 20 years, RMS was the second mo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Peters E,Cohen M,Altini M,Murray J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This qualitative study investigated the medical decision-making preferences of adolescent oncology patients and the parental and clinician behaviors that adolescents report to be supportive of their preferred level of decision-making involvement. METHODS:Interviews were conducted with 40 adolescents between...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Weaver MS,Baker JN,Gattuso JS,Gibson DV,Sykes AD,Hinds PS

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kaiser Permanente (KP) is a large health maintenance organization (HMO) operating in 14 states and caring for 8,000,000 members in hundreds of facilities staffed by thousands of physicians and support personnel. Cancer care is provided to these KP members as part of the health care package. METHODS:KP insur...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Glass A

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complementary medicine has become an important aspect of palliative cancer care. This overview is primarily aimed at providing guidance to clinicians regarding some commonly used complementary therapies. METHODS:Several complementary therapies were identified as particularly relevant to palliative cancer ca...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ernst E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the results of multimodality therapy in 27 patients with biopsy-proven primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma treated between 1976 and 1986. Treatment included surgical resection (15 patients), radiotherapy (27 patients), and chemotherapy (nine patients). Actuarial survival rates for the 27...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pollack IF,Lunsford LD,Flickinger JC,Dameshek HL

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy for tumors of the central nervous system has a limited efficacy presumably because of restricted blood-brain barrier permeability. The advantage of regional intra-arterial administration of anticancer drugs is an increased uptake during the first passage of the drugs through tumor capillaries. Twenty pati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Madajewicz S,Chowhan N,Iliya A,Roque C,Beaton R,Davis R,Fertman S,Meek A,Alvarez O,Pampati M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extremely high concentrations of human chorionic gonadotropin in the cerebrospinal fluid were found in a 5-year-old boy presenting sexual precocity and leg pain. An intramedullary spinal cord tumor was revealed by myelogram and metrizamide computerized tomography, and a biopsy specimen taken at laminectomy. Histologic...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hisa S,Morinaga S,Kobayashi Y,Ojima M,Chikaoka H,Sasano N

更新日期：1985-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study concerns 75 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity who were patients at the Gustave-Roussy Institute between December 1966 and July 1973. These patients were divided into two groups. The first group was comprised of 39 patients who underwent elective radical neck dissection; nodal involvem...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vandenbrouck C,Sancho-Garnier H,Chassagne D,Saravane D,Cachin Y,Micheau C

更新日期：1980-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen cases of clear cell adenocarcinoma of the cervix and vagina in young women were studied by electron microscopy and the observations were compared with the light microscopic appearance. Ultrastructurally, the neoplastic cells were found to be of the same basic type, regardless of whether light microscopy disclo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dickersin GR,Welch WR,Erlandson R,Robboy SJ

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arthralgia is common in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors (BCS) who are receiving aromatase inhibitors (AIs). The objective of this study was to evaluate the perceived onset, characteristics, and risk factors for AI-related arthralgia (AIA). METHODS:In a cross-sectional survey of postmenopausal BCS who...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mao JJ,Stricker C,Bruner D,Xie S,Bowman MA,Farrar JT,Greene BT,DeMichele A

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proficiency testing in cytopathology and in other disciplines should be based on firm statistical and scientific foundations, because test theory in general is a heavily statistical subject. Statistical considerations have demonstrated that the design of "short" proficiency tests in cytopathology, including the curren...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nagy GK,Naryshkin S

更新日期：2007-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past 30 years, changes in the treatment of children and adolescents with cancer have led to substantial improvements in survival. Although treatment-related factors have been shown to impact subsequent health status and quality of life, there is limited information on survivors who are now two or more decad...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Robison LL,Green DM,Hudson M,Meadows AT,Mertens AC,Packer RJ,Sklar CA,Strong LC,Yasui Y,Zeltzer LK

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African-American (AA) women have lower survival rates from cervical cancer compared with white women. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) and other variables on racial disparities in overall survival among women with invasive cervical cancer. METHODS:One th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Movva S,Noone AM,Banerjee M,Patel DA,Schwartz K,Yee CL,Simon MS

更新日期：2008-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It remains unclear whether health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurements from patients and staff can be combined with medical data to predict survival in patients with terminal cancer. METHODS:The correlations between survival and potential health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) prognostic variables w...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vigano A,Donaldson N,Higginson IJ,Bruera E,Mahmud S,Suarez-Almazor M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efficient quality assurance and improvement measures are essential ingredients in a well organized cytology-based program for cervical carcinoma screening. Various pap smear review procedures, aiming for optimization of accuracy, are described throughout the literature. Evaluation and synthesis of those meth...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Arbyn M,Schenck U,Ellison E,Hanselaar A

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A retrospective clinicopathologic study was performed to identify the influence of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on the outcomes of patients with the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (FVPTC). METHODS:The results of 37 patients with FVPTC were compared with those of 37 randomly selec...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tielens ET,Sherman SI,Hruban RH,Ladenson PW

更新日期：1994-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1968 and 1985, 28 patients with recurrent gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) were treated at the Southeastern Regional Trophoblastic Disease Center. Sixteen patients received primary therapy at this center and had recurrence diagnosed by re-elevation of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) levels after thre...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mutch DG,Soper JT,Babcock CJ,Clarke-Pearson DL,Hammond CB

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic and laboratory data suggest that cervical cancer typically arises from a series of causal steps. Each step can be studied separately in the hope of better etiologic understanding and improved cancer prevention. The earliest identified etiologic step is infection of young women with specific types of vene...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schiffman MH,Brinton LA

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression of neuroectodermal markers is a key feature of small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC). Although immune responses against a number of these proteins have been associated with paraneoplastic neuronal disease (PND), most patients with SCLC have anti-neuroectodermal antibodies in the absence of PND. Whether...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vural B,Chen LC,Saip P,Chen YT,Ustuner Z,Gonen M,Simpson AJ,Old LJ,Ozbek U,Gure AO

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a heterogeneous disease, there are considerable efforts underway to develop increasingly accurate and precise analytics with which to estimate the probability of future events such as the need for and probability of response to therapy, progression-free survival, and survival. T...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Montserrat E,Gale RP

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relationship between smoking and stage of colorectal cancer at diagnosis, data on 2788 current smokers and 6313 nonsmokers with known stage at diagnosis were obtained from the Massachusetts Cancer Registry. The stage at diagnosis was treated as a polytomous response variable in a logit-type, log-linear ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Longnecker MP,Clapp RW,Sheahan K

更新日期：1989-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) have an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), particularly when they are receiving treatment. Blood or marrow transplantation (BMT) is recommended for relapsed/refractory NHL, and the risk of VTE after these patients undergo BMT is uncertain. METHODS:Patien...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gangaraju R,Chen Y,Hageman L,Wu J,Francisco L,Kung M,Ness E,Parman M,Weisdorf DJ,Forman SJ,Arora M,Armenian SH,Bhatia S

更新日期：2019-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have demonstrated that abnormal levels of nuclear matrix protein 22 (NMP22) are associated with bladder cancer and have led to the approval of NMP22 as a urinary biomarker by the US Food and Drug Administration. Nonetheless, the clinical significance of NMP22 remains unclear. The objective of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Shariat SF,Savage C,Chromecki TF,Sun M,Scherr DS,Lee RK,Lughezzani G,Remzi M,Marberger MJ,Karakiewicz PI,Vickers AJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old man with erythroleukemia was found to have circulating micromegakaryocytes . Megakaryocytic features were defined by morphologic and cytochemical studies using light and electron microscopy with platelet-megakaryocyte peroxidase staining. This appears to be the first reported instance of erythroleukemia ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yamauchi K,Miyauchi J,Nagao T

更新日期：1984-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This randomized pilot trial investigated whether primary chemotherapy was feasible in terms of efficacy, survival, toxicity profile, and quality of life compared with whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) given first in chemotherapy-naive patients nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with synchronous brain metastasis...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lee DH,Han JY,Kim HT,Yoon SJ,Pyo HR,Cho KH,Shin SH,Yoo H,Lee SH,Lee JS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytotoxic analogs of somatostatin (SST), such as AN-238, which consists of 2-pyrrolinodoxorubicin (AN-201) linked to the SST carrier RC-121, can be targeted to tumors that express SST receptors. Because SST receptors are present in ovarian carcinoma cells, the authors evaluated the effect of AN-238 on the UC...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Plonowski A,Schally AV,Koppan M,Nagy A,Arencibia JM,Csernus B,Halmos G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a randomized Phase II study, the authors evaluated the activity and toxicity of the new cisplatin, doxorubicin, and mitomycin C (PAM) combination, that includes cisplatin (P) instead of 5-fluorouracil as in the 5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and mitomycin C (FAM) combination, in patients with advanced gastr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： De Lisi V,Cocconi G,Angelini F,Cavicchi F,Di Costanzo F,Gilli G,Rodinò C,Soldani M,Tonato M,Finardi C

更新日期：1996-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on the diagnostic features, radiographic findings, staging, operative management, treatments, and treatment results for 95 children (mean age, 10 years) with paratesticular sarcoma; they were treated on the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study (IRS) I and II protocols. Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Raney RB Jr,Tefft M,Lawrence W Jr,Ragab AH,Soule EH,Beltangady M,Gehan EA

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00