Disparities in access to care at high-volume institutions for uro-oncologic procedures.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current analysis of outcomes in a large series of adult patients with intracranial ependymal tumors contributes to the characterization of the primary prognostic factors and to the therapeutic management of this rare disease, for which limited information is available in the literature. METHODS:The auth...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Reni M,Brandes AA,Vavassori V,Cavallo G,Casagrande F,Vastola F,Magli A,Franzin A,Basso U,Villa E

更新日期：2004-03-15 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：BACKGROUND:Ifosfamide has previously been shown to be active as a single agent and in combination with doxorubicin, etoposide, and teniposide in pediatric solid tumors and adult acute leukemia. The authors performed a dose-escalation trial of ifosfamide with a fixed dosage of etoposide, with mesna uroprotection, in chi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bernstein ML,Whitehead VM,Devine S,Grier H,Kung F,Krischer J,Dreyer Z,Bell B,Land V,Buchanan GR

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Sedentary behaviors are associated with poor health outcomes in the general population, but their clinical impact on adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has not been characterized to date. In the current study, we described the prevalence of sedentary behaviors in survivors of ALL...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Howell CR,Wilson CL,Ehrhardt MJ,Partin RE,Kaste SC,Lanctot JQ,Pui CH,Robison LL,Hudson MM,Ness KK

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired myeloperoxidase deficiency has been reported in several hematological malignancies. The clinical course of a patient with acute myelomonocytic leukemia is described which was characterized by staphylococcal infections prior to therapy and again during a period of relapse. Neutropenia was not a feature of thes...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kitahara M,Kushner JP

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant thymoma is a relatively rare condition and a review of the literature reveals approximately 100 reported cases. Only a small percentage of these have been treated with megavoltage radiation therapy; therefore, it is difficult to find the necessary information to establish a proper time-dose relationship for ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Marks RD Jr,Wallace KM,Pettit HS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical diagnosis of lymphangitic carcinomatosis of the lung has generally been confirmed by open lung or transthoracic needle biopsy, precedures with significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in patients with respiratory insufficiency. We present six cases of lymphangitic carcinomatosis diagnosed by tran...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Aranda C,Sidhu G,Sasso LA,Adams FV

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor weight, carcass weight, nitrogen balance, energy balance, resting energy expenditure (REE), and activity energy expenditure (AEE) were measured in normal Fischer 344 rats, free-feeding Fischer 344 rats with methylcholanthrene-induced sarcoma (TB-FF), and similar tumor-bearing rats supported with total parenteral...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Popp MB,Brennan MF,Morrison SD

更新日期：1982-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with breast cancer developed pulmonary toxicity following mitomycin therapy. The presenting symptoms were shortness of breath and a dry cough. The radiological pictures varied from a normal chest x-ray to extensive bilateral pneumonitis. The histological findings consisted of diffuse alveolar damage progr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Buzdar AU,Legha SS,Luna MA,Tashima CK,Hortobagyi GN,Blumenschein GR

更新日期：1980-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) historically were grouped with leiomyosarcomas (LMSs) based on their morphologic similarities; however, recently, GIST was established unequivocally as a distinct type of sarcoma based on its molecular features and response to imatinib treatment. METHODS:To gain furth...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ylipää A,Hunt KK,Yang J,Lazar AJ,Torres KE,Lev DC,Nykter M,Pollock RE,Trent J,Zhang W

更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve cases of thymic carcinoid were studied by electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry. Clinically, all of them presented either as asymptomatic, radiographically detected mediastinal masses or as neoplasms producing symptoms of thoracic structural displacement or Cushing's syndrome. By light microscopic examin...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wick MR,Scheithauer BW

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant sections from cystectomy specimens in 45 cases of bladder cancer were examined microscopically after en bloc fixation and processing. There were 35 transitional cell, seven squamous cell, and three mixed transitional cell and squamous carcinomas. Broad front invasion was associated with papillary and superficial...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Soto EA,Friedell GH,Tiltman AJ

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alpha-interferon and dexamethasone are each effective in patients with multiple myeloma and have a combined inhibitory effect on the in vitro growth of myeloma colonies. The effect of combined therapy in newly diagnosed patients is unknown. METHODS:Fifty-one consecutive patients with previously untreated mu...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dimopoulos MA,Weber D,Delasalle KB,Alexanian R

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sipuleucel-T is an investigational active cellular immunotherapy product designed to stimulate an immune response against prostate cancer. The safety and efficacy of sipuleucel-T was evaluated in 2 identically designed, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials (D9901 and D9902A) conducted in men w...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Higano CS,Schellhammer PF,Small EJ,Burch PA,Nemunaitis J,Yuh L,Provost N,Frohlich MW

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary small cell carcinoma arising in organs other than the lung were thought to be relatively rare. However, with the increasing technical sophistication of pathology departments, tumors with foci of small cell neuroendocrine components are being identified more frequently. The pattern of disease involvem...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lyster MT,Kies MS,Kuzel TM

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to characterize insulin receptor (IR) and insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) expression in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS:A total of 459 patients who underwent curative resection of NSCLC were studied (median follow-up duration, 4.01 years)...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kim JS,Kim ES,Liu D,Lee JJ,Solis L,Behrens C,Lippman SM,Hong WK,Wistuba II,Lee HY

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 2-year period, three young Chinese women in Taiwan were found to have a rare pancreatic tumor known as solid and papillary neoplasm of the pancreas. They had a large abdominal mass, found either incidentally or because of abdominal discomfort. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was useful in local...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kuo TT,Su IJ,Chien CH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In light of the steadily improving capability to treat opportunistic infections, the authors reviewed their recent experience with short course empiric radiotherapy for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated presumed central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma. METHODS:Medical records were...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Donahue BR,Sullivan JW,Cooper JS

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years, the role of membrane-bound transport genes in human disease has been increasingly recognized and understood. Of these genes, the p170 membrane glycoprotein may function as an outward transport pump for many cancer chemotherapeutic drugs associated with the multidrug resistance phenotype. This ar...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Leyland-Jones B,Dalton W,Fisher GA,Sikic BI

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Western countries, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is usually advanced at presentation and is rarely diagnosed in situ. The authors studied an in situ squamous cell carcinoma that occupied the entire mucosa of a 9 cm length of esophagus, causing dysphagia for solid food in a woman aged 68 years. METHO...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chu P,Stagias J,West AB,Traube M

更新日期：1997-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred-eighty patients were randomized to receive either BCNU, hydroxyurea and imidazole carboxamide (BHD), BHD plus levamisole, or high-dose DTIC plus actinomycin D. There was no difference in response rate in the three groups (24%, 25% and 22%). Females responded better than males and, as expected, those with a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Costanzi JJ,Fletcher WS,Balcerzak SP,Taylor S,Eyre HJ,O'Bryan RM,Al-Sarraf M,Frank J

更新日期：1984-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this project was to develop the M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI), a brief measure of the severity and impact of cancer-related symptoms. METHODS:A list of symptoms was generated from symptom inventories and by panels of clinicians. Twenty-six symptoms and 6 interference items were rat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cleeland CS,Mendoza TR,Wang XS,Chou C,Harle MT,Morrissey M,Engstrom MC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two patients received specific active immunotherapy (TAA vaccine once per month for 3 months), with the duration of follow-up, as of July 1984, ranging from 3 months to 36 months (median, 21 months). Of these, seven had Dukes B2, seven had Dukes C, and eight had Dukes D lesions. All received surgical resection,...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hollinshead A,Elias EG,Arlen M,Buda B,Mosley M,Scherrer J

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors administered high-dose chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, BCNU (carmustine) and VP-16 (etoposide) plus autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) to 22 adult patients with relapsed acute leukemia in second or subsequent remission. The marrow was not treated ex vivo. The long-term, disease-free survival...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Spinolo JA,Dicke KA,Horwitz LJ,Jagannath S,McCredie K,Estey E,Kantarjian H,Zander AR,Keating M,Spitzer G

更新日期：1990-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess whether the effectiveness of a combination of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) and percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) is superior to PEI alone in the treatment of patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a randomized controlled study was performed. METHODS:Fifty-two pat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Koda M,Murawaki Y,Mitsuda A,Oyama K,Okamoto K,Idobe Y,Suou T,Kawasaki H

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peanut agglutinin (PNA) receptors were studied in 37 cases of reactive follicular hyperplasia and 66 follicular lymphomas, using the unlabeled peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) method on paraffin embedded material. Based on the binding sites of the lectin, positively stained cells were easily recognized as either cytopl...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ree HJ,Hsu SM

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to examine disparities in survival and associated factors for patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and to determine whether racial disparities varied over time (1991-1995, 1996-1999, and 2000-2002). METHODS:The authors studied 70,901 patients aged>or=65 years with stage I-IV NSCL...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hardy D,Xia R,Liu CC,Cormier JN,Nurgalieva Z,Du XL

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:The antiemetic activity of ondansetron (Zofran, Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, Research Triangle Park, NC) was evaluated in 25 patients with recurrent melanoma who were treated sequentially with dacarbazine (DTIC), vinblastine, and cisplatin. The antiemetic regimen included ondansetron alone in 11 patien...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Legha SS,Hodges C,Ring S

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiotherapy was applied to 14 esophageal carcinomas with respiratory tract fistulas using various treatment regimens. Closure of the fistulas was observed in four cases after irradiation at a daily dose of 1.5 Gy. The period of closure was transient in two cases but long-term in the other two. One long-term closure c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yamada S,Takai Y,Ogawa Y,Kakuto Y,Sakamoto K

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00