Elevated levels of substances immunologically cross-reactive with insulin in blood of patients with malignant and nonmalignant pulmonary tissue proliferation.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the efficacy and safety of bolus 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and leucovorin combined with weekly paclitaxel (FLTAX) in advanced gastric cancer (GC) patients. METHODS:Patients with untreated stage IV GC received paclitaxel 80 mg/m(2) as a 1-hour infusion, followed by 5-FU 600 mg/m(2) as a bolus infusio...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Matsubara J,Shimada Y,Kato K,Nagai Y,Iwasa S,Nakajima TE,Hamaguchi T,Yamada Y,Takagi S,Kobayashi K,Yoshioka A,Nakayama N,Tsuji A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous data showed that distant metastatic breast cancer (MBC) might be curable in up to 3% of the cases in selected patients, mostly young, with good performance status and with low-volume metastatic disease, mainly by an aggressive multidisciplinary approach including aggressive combination chemotherapy ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Güth U,Elfgen C,Montagna G,Schmid SM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation disorders are frequently detected in patients affected by different tumours even though clinical symptoms occur in a very small percentage of such subjects. Coagulation processes are probably involved in the mechanism of metastatic spread. We assayed the plasma levels of thrombin-antithrombin III (TAT) com...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Bartoloni C,Guidi L,Tricerri A,Patriarca F,Pili R,Cursi F,Canetta M,Cappelli A,Vangeli M,Salvati F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measures serial carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) titers in 92 patients, randomly selected from the patient population of a Radiotherapeutic Clinic, to correlate with clinical and follow-up evaluation. 57 out of 92 patients had positive CEA levels (2.5 ng/ml) or 62 percent of proven cancer patients. In this serie...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Vider M,Kashmiri R,Hunter L,Moses B,Meeker WR,Utley JF,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To define the cyclophosphamide (CTX) maximal tolerated dose when combined with fixed doses of gemcitabine, fluorouracil (5-FU) and folinic acid (leucovorin, LFA) in metastatic breast cancer patients pretreated with anthracyclines and taxanes. METHODS:Metastatic breast cancer patients aged < or = 75 years, with...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Frasci G,D'Aiuto G,Comella P,Thomas R,Capasso I,Botti G,Cortino GR,Di Bonito M,Rubulotta R,Vallone P,Comella G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is considered to be potentially lymphangiogenic and can selectively induce hyperplasia of the lymphatic vasculature. In this study, we clarified the clinicopathological features of early gastric carcinoma (EGC) that has metastasized to the lymph nodes, as well as the corre...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kabashima A,Maehara Y,Kakeji Y,Sugimachi K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess the use of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), leucovorin and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) regimens in clinical practice according to their efficacy and toxicity. METHODS:Patients who received oxaliplatin-containing regimens after curative resection for colorectal carcinoma from 10 different o...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Uncu D,Aksoy S,Çetin B,Yetişyiğit T,Özdemir N,Berk V,Dane F,Inal A,Harputluoğlu H,Budakoğlu B,Koca D,Sevinç A,Cihan S,Durnalı AG,Özkan M,Öztürk MA,Işıkdoğan A,Büyükberber S,Benekli M,Köş T,Alkış N,Karaca H,Tur

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We investigated whether a 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-resistant tumor could regain chemosensitivity after the administration of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (DAC) as a demethylating agent. METHODS:Human colorectal cancer cells (SW48) are characterized by the hypermethylation of proapoptotic genes. They were transplanted i...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Morita S,Iida S,Kato K,Takagi Y,Uetake H,Sugihara K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since its introduction by Morton in 1992, sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy has become a standard procedure in the staging and treatment of primary melanoma and clinically negative regional lymph nodes. The primary aims of this procedure are to ascertain the individual lymphatic drainage patterns of primary t...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： De Giorgi V,Leporatti G,Massi D,Lo Russo G,Sestini S,Dini M,Lotti T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant glycosylation of membrane components due to specific alterations of glycosyltransferase activity is a common feature of carcinoma cells and is usually associated with invasion and metastasis. In a prospective study, the enzyme activity of the sialyltransferases ST6GAL-I and ST3GAL-III was studied in gastric c...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Gretschel S,Haensch W,Schlag PM,Kemmner W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Carcinoma of the biliary system is a rare tumor entity, and patients with advanced disease face a dismal prognosis. Because of the absence of standard chemotherapy for advanced biliary carcinoma, we have performed two consecutive studies to evaluate the clinical potential of 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin and ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Raderer M,Hejna MH,Valencak JB,Kornek GV,Weinländer GS,Bareck E,Lenauer J,Brodowicz T,Lang F,Scheithauer W

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) and capecitabine (CAP) have separately shown significant antitumor activity in a wide range of solid tumors. A phase I study was conducted in order to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) of their combination in patients with refr...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Maltezos E,Amarantidis K,Trichas M,Vasiliadis M,Toromanidou M,Chatzaki E,Karayiannakis A,Tsaroucha A,Romanidis K,Kakolyris S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a minimally invasive treatment modality with recent increasing use to ablate brain tumors. When originally introduced in the late 1980s, the inability to precisely monitor and control the thermal ablation limited the adoption of LITT in neu...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Rahmathulla G,Recinos PF,Kamian K,Mohammadi AM,Ahluwalia MS,Barnett GH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has been shown to be highly responsive to chemotherapy. The major limiting toxicity was myelotoxicity. Recently, the role of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in reducing chemotherapy-induced neutropenic sepsis has been well established. In this study, we tested whether recom...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Wang CH,Wang HM,Chen JS,Chang WJ,Lai GM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) is a microscopic papillary noninvasive lesion arising from the pancreatic ductal epithelium. However, the natural history and time to progression of high-grade PanIN remain unclear. Herein, we report 2 cases of high-grade PanIN without morphological changes of the main panc...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Yamao K,Takenaka M,Nakai A,Omoto S,Kamata K,Minaga K,Miyata T,Imai H,Sakurai T,Watanabe T,Nishida N,Matsumoto I,Takeyama Y,Chikugo T,Kudo M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) is effective in treating relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma (FL), with durable remissions in first-line consolidation. We hypothesized that RIT with ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin®) would result in durable remissions by eliminating minimal residual disease after cytoreduction. M...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Puvvada SD,Guillén-Rodríguez JM,Yan J,Inclán L,Heard K,Rivera XI,Anwer F,Mahadevan D,Schatz JH,Persky DO

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to investigate clinicopathological responses and oncological outcome in patients receiving short- or long-course chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and to assess the predictive factor for recurrence in each treatment. METHODS:A total of 118 rectal cancer patients receiving preoperative CRT were enrolle...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Yamamoto A,Toiyama Y,Okugawa Y,Saigusa S,Ide S,Fujikawa H,Hiro J,Yasuda H,Yoshiyama S,Ohi M,Araki T,Kusunoki M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinostatin stimalamer (SMANCS) is a lipophilic intra-arterial chemotherapeutic agent for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In our previous study, transcatheter arterial infusion chemotherapy using SMANCS for HCC showed a response rate of 20%. In an effort to obtain a superior anti-tumor effect against HCC, we conducted ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Okusaka T,Okada S,Ueno H,Ikeda M,Iwata R,Furukawa H,Takayasu K,Moriyama N,Sato T,Sato K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:Erlotinib and chemotherapy have shown similar efficacy for pretreated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, but none of the large studies have selected patients based on histology. We present a retrospective single-center series of advanced non-squamous NSCLC patients treated with erlotinib or pem...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Zugazagoitia J,Puente J,González-Larriba JL,Manzano A,Sotelo M,Hernández S,Sanz J,Pérez P,Díaz-Rubio E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:362 evaluable node-positive patients with stage II breast cancer were randomized, receiving either 6 cycles of conventional CMF or 6 cycles of the combination of cyclophosphamide (500 mg/m2), mitoxantrone (Novantrone 10 mg/m2), and fluorouracil (500 mg/m2; CNF). After a median follow-up of 51 months, 64 (36%) patients...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Fountzilas G,Polichronis A,Katsohis K,Gennatas K,Toussis D,Skarlos D,Kosmidis P,Vassilaros S,Semoglou C,Giannakakis T,Fahantidis E,Klouvas G,Tsavaris N,Konstantaras C,Makrantonakis P,Kolotas C,Zamboglou N,Tsiliakos S,

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model system for studying some aspects of the interaction of cancer cells in tumors and their surrounding nonmalignant tissue is the co-culture of cancer cells and embryonic chick neural retinal cells in gyratory shakers. Neural retina cell aggregation, under these conditions, has been shown to be differentially inh...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Maslow DE,Mayhew E,Mittleman A

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The RUNX proteins are a family of transcriptional factors that have essential functions during embryogenesis and development, whereas deregulation in expression of RUNXs is often linked to tumor formation. To date, there has been no study describing the precise expression, prognostic impact and methylation s...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Tonomoto Y,Tachibana M,Dhar DK,Onoda T,Hata K,Ohnuma H,Tanaka T,Nagasue N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients on cytotoxic chemotherapy show reduced frequency of menstrual bleeding due to a reduction in ovarian follicular activity. The endocrine perturbations related to these changed menstrual patterns were studied in detail. Nineteen regularly menstruating patients with primary breast cancer were given either c...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Dowsett M,Richner J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the relationship between neoplastic transformation and increased genetic instability, spontaneous and induced mutation rates were compared in a nontumorigenic, immortalized human bronchial epithelial cell line (NL20) and a tumorigenic cell line (NL20T) spontaneously derived from the NL20 line. Using the h...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Wittenkeller JL,Storer B,Bittner G,Schiller JH

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intratumoral metabolism and synthesis of estrogens are considered to play very important roles in the pathogenesis and development of various sex steroid-dependent neoplasms including breast and endometrial carcinoma. 17 beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17 beta-HSD) isozymes catalyze the interconversion of estradiol...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Sasano H,Suzuki T,Takeyama J,Utsunomiya H,Ito K,Ariga N,Moriya T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 86 children with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and in 6 children with medulloblastoma 253 24-hour methotrexate (MTX) infusions with 150, 500, and 700 mg/m2 were performed. MTX concentrations in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were measured with a specific radioimmunoassay. In 131 infusions with 500 mg/m2 gi...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Janka GE,Mack R,Helmig M,Haas RJ,Bidlingmaier F

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three polycyclic hydrocarbons: benzo(a)pyrene; dibenz(a,h)-anthracene and dibenz(a,c)anthracene, differing in their carcinogenicity, were administered to female rats. The comparative intracellular localization of these compounds was studied by fluorescence microscopy. The two carcinogenic molecules were localized both...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Stora C

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a registry of 24,105 cancers, 15 patients were found to have three primary cancers in different organs. Decreasing time intervals between sequential diagnoses and then death were noted. Occurrence and sequence of cancer sites appeared to be random. Stage of second and third cancers tended, on the average, to be mor...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Holmes FF,Cole PA Jr

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system was used to study the uptake of 5-fluorouracil by LSA ascites tumor cells. Changes in drug uptake with cell age and following a 1,000-rad radiation perturbation of the cell population were studied. DNA synthesis and drug uptake were highest during early rapid tumor growth and decreased with tumor ag...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Young JA,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative risk of breast cancer incidence and tumor promotion associated with psychotropic drug consumption was evaluated in 151 patients with newly diagnosed neoplasms and 151 hospital controls. No significantly altered risk of breast cancer was found in association with the use of diazepam, chlordiazepoxide, anti...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Wallace RB,Sherman BM,Bean JA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00