Combined determination of serum CA 19-9 and tissue polypeptide antigen: why no improvement in pancreatic cancer diagnosis?

abstract：:This randomised, single-blind, parallel-group study was carried out in 48 French pneumology centres to compare the anti-emetic efficacy of ondansetron and an alizapride plus methylprednisolone (ALI/MPS) combination in patients receiving high-dose cisplatin. A total of 220 patients were recruited of whom 209 were evalu...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Depierre A,Lebeau B,d'Allens H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the chemo-radiotherapy of testicular tumors in clinical stage III. Our study involved 54 patients with lung metastases of seminoma and nonseminoma, treated with a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The results obtained have not satisfied our expectations. While in the 16 seminoma patients only 43...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Mechl Z,Malír A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cases are presented in which 111In-bleomycin accumulated in Virchow's gland metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix, and in paratracheal lymphatic gland metastasis from embryonal carcinoma of the right ovary. Thus, this radiopharmaceutical was found to be of great use for assessment of metastatic...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kida T,Ikeda M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN), hypoxia is considered a crucial physiological modulator for malignant progression, wherebythe plasminogen activation system is involved in overlapping functions such as moulding of the extracellular matrix, cell proliferation and signal transduction. Little is k...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Sprague LD,Mengele K,Schilling D,Geurts-Moespot A,Sweep FC,Stadler P,Schmitt M,Molls M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Systematic investigation of a novel series of intercalating agents, 9-aza-anthrapyrazoles, has led to the identification of a promising analogue, BBR 3438. This study describes the antitumour efficacy of the novel compound in human prostate carcinoma models and the molecular/cellular basis of its activity. ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Supino R,Polizzi D,Pavesi R,Pratesi G,Guano F,Capranico G,Palumbo M,Sissi C,Richter S,Beggiolin G,Menta E,Pezzoni G,Spinelli S,Torriani D,Carenini N,Dal Bo L,Facchinetti F,Tortoreto M,Zunino F

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to determine with two-dimensional electrophoresis whether two sublines (high and low metastatic potential to lymph nodes) of rat fibrosarcoma induced by methylcholanthrene have differences in cellular proteins. The high metastatic potential subline had a specific protein in the pro...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Minato K,Manabe T,Okuyama N,Sasaki Y,Nakagawa K,Saijo N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease provoked by injections of water and other harmless liquids or wounds without tissue loss, is characterized by the regression of certain organs, opening in the epidermis, pigmentary anomalies and malignant tumors. The very few worms which recover spontaneously, regenerate the eliminated parts or develop sup...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Chandebois R

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last few years only one large randomized phase III study has tried to prospectively assess the safety of cetuximab and panitumumab in a head-to-head comparison. Despite the similar overall toxicity profile, cetuximab and panitumumab retain peculiar safety characteristics that deserve to be deeply in...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Petrelli F,Ardito R,Ghidini A,Zaniboni A,Ghidini M,Barni S,Tomasello G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Tyrosine kinase B (TrkB) is associated with aggressive behavior and poor prognosis in various cancers. Here we examined the association between TrkB expression and distant metastases/prognosis in gastric carcinoma (GC). PATIENTS AND METHODS:We analyzed TrkB expression in 161 GC patients by immunohistochemist...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Zhang Y,Fujiwara Y,Doki Y,Takiguchi S,Yasuda T,Miyata H,Yamazaki M,Ngan CY,Yamamoto H,Ma Q,Monden M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) is a neurological emergency which presents with symptoms of confusion, ophthalmoplegia, and ataxia. Cancer patients are at high risk of this acute encephalopathy due to chronic malnutrition, chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, and consumption of thiamine by rapidly growin...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kuo SH,Debnam JM,Fuller GN,de Groot J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In order to determine whether infection with Helicobacter pylori might be associated with pancreatic adenocarcinoma, we performed a study to compare the H. pylori seroprevalence rate between patients with pancreatic carcinoma and matched control subjects. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Blood samples from 92 patients wit...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Raderer M,Wrba F,Kornek G,Maca T,Koller DY,Weinlaender G,Hejna M,Scheithauer W

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this phase III trial was to compare chemotherapy combined with bevacizumab versus chemotherapy alone in the treatment of patients with advanced colorectal cancer. METHODS:From September 2004 till September 2008, 222 treatment-naive patients were enrolled and divided into 2 arms: 114 arm A pa...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Stathopoulos GP,Batziou C,Trafalis D,Koutantos J,Batzios S,Stathopoulos J,Legakis J,Armakolas A

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Immuno-oncological (IO) therapies such as PD-1 and PD-L1 antibodies have been introduced in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) since 2015 based on randomized trials showing unprecedented advantages in overall survival (OS) with hazard ratios (HRs) between 0.5 and 0.7. The impact of ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Faehling M,Kopp M,Schwenk B,Fallscheer S,Kramberg S,Eckert R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient seen at presentation for Hodgkin's disease (HD) at stage IV B was successfully treated with MOPP. In remission he developed coeliac disease, controlled by dietary measures, but 26 months after the end of chemotherapy a severe dyspeptic syndrome appeared; endoscopy and barium meal suggested the presence of a ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Eridani S,Singh AK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pilot study was performed administering PCNU with radiation therapy to treat patients with high-grade astrocytomas and to explore the toxic effects of this drug regimen. PCNU at an initial dose of 110 mg/m2 i.v. was administered to 14 patients within 4 weeks after completion of cranial irradiation. Courses were repe...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Feun LG,Maor M,Stewart DJ,Leavens ME,Savaraj N,Bodey GP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bladder cancer is the fifth most common cancer among men and the seventh among women. At diagnosis, at least 25% of bladder cancer tumors are locally or systemically advanced. Systemic chemotherapy is the only current modality for advanced or metastatic transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. Recently, a...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Adamo V,Magno C,Spitaleri G,Garipoli C,Maisano C,Alafaci E,Adamo B,Rossello R,Scandurra G,Scimone A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth-regulated oncogene-1 (GRO-1) is an autocrine growth factor in melanoma and is a member of the CXC family of chemokines which promote chemotaxis of granulocytes and endothelia through binding to CXC receptor 2. A previous article noted that GRO-1 was upregulated in oral cancer using a genome-wide microarray appr...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Shintani S,Ishikawa T,Nonaka T,Li C,Nakashiro K,Wong DT,Hamakawa H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Superficially spreading early gastric cancer is characterized by wide horizontal extension without deep vertical invasion. This study aimed to clarify the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of this rare disease. METHODS:We defined superficially spreading early gastric cancer as any tumor inva...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kunisaki C,Akiyama H,Nomura M,Matsuda G,Otsuka Y,Ono H,Shimada H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to evaluate any correlations between baseline creatinine clearance and the development of grade 3/4 toxicities during treatment within oncology phase I trials of molecularly targeted agents where entry criteria mandate a serum creatinine of ≤ 1.5 × the upper limit of normal. METHODS:Documen...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Basu B,Vitfell-Pedersen J,Moreno Garcia V,Puglisi M,Tjokrowidjaja A,Shah K,Malvankar S,Anghan B,de Bono JS,Kaye SB,Molife LR,Banerji U

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer pain management had received relatively little attention until the late 1990s, when approximately 100,000 new cancer cases and 60,000 cancer deaths occurred each year in Korea. In 2001, a Cancer Pain Management Guideline was prepared for the first time by the Korean Society of Hospice and Palliative Care. This ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Lee JY,Ahn JS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ifosfamide is relatively well tolerated but it can be associated occasionally with life-threatening complications such as arrhythmias and heart failure, severe encephalopathy and hemorrhagic cystitis. Mesna administration can control the urothelial toxicity of ifosfamide, but it is without effect on the other complica...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Klastersky J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC) has a poorer prognosis than other subtypes of ovarian cancer. In this study, we evaluated the responsiveness to second-line chemotherapy in recurrent ovarian CCC. METHODS:The MITO-9 project investigated a cohort of patients observed between 1991 and 2007 in 20 cen...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Esposito F,Cecere SC,Magazzino F,Katsaros D,Ottaiano A,Gadducci A,Pisano C,Scalone S,Rabaiotti E,Salutari V,Cormio G,Canuto EM,Greggi S,Savarese A,Marinaccio M,Scollo P,Santeufemia DA,Sacco C,Facchini G,Pignata S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has recently undergone marked progress. The advent of the ultrasound (US) contrast agent Sonazoid, approved in January 2007, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the liver-specific MRI contrast agent gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic ac...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kudo M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the efficacy of percutaneous cementoplasty for painful bone metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:Cementoplasty was performed for 22 metastatic bone tumors in 13 patients. All patients had intractable pain and were diagnosed as metastatic bone tumor from HCC. The ostyneedle was in...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kodama H,Aikata H,Uka K,Takaki S,Mori N,Waki K,Jeong SC,Kawakami Y,Shirakawa H,Takahashi S,Toyota N,Ito K,Chayama K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are a few long-term follow-up studies of patients with stage I ovarian carcinoma. The objective of this study was to evaluate prognostic factors for long-term survival. METHODS:Two hundred fourteen stage I ovarian carcinomas (registered by the Tokai Ovarian Tumor Study Group from 1988 to 1999) were ana...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Mizuno M,Kikkawa F,Shibata K,Kajiyama H,Suzuki T,Ino K,Kawai M,Mizutani S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroscopic morphology, histology and ultrastructure of BK virus (BKV)-induced hamster and mouse tumors were investigated. Groups of animals were immunosuppressed to study the relationship between immune system and BKV oncogenesis. Ependymomas had the highest incidence, followed by tumors of pancreatic islets, osteosa...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Altavilla G,Carrà L,Alberti S,Corallini A,Cavazzini L,Fabris G,Aleotti A,Barbanti-Brodano G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum detection of S100B, a new melanoma marker, has shown clinical significance in early studies. The aim of our study of 1, 339 serum samples from 412 different melanoma patients and 107 control patients was to prove the prognostic value of serum S100B levels in melanoma patients at different stages of disease a...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Hauschild A,Engel G,Brenner W,Gläser R,Mönig H,Henze E,Christophers E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of polyamine synthesis were tested for therapeutic effectiveness on transplantable prostate cancer. Inhibition of either ornithine decarboxylase or S-adenosyl-L-methionine decarboxylase (AMDC) by alpha-difluormethylornithine (DFMO) or methylglyoxal-bis[guanylhydrazone] (MGBG), respectively, was associated w...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Dunzendorfer U,Relyea NM,Kleinert E,Balis ME,Whitmore WF Jr

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well recognized that distinguishing benign from malignant papillary lesions of the breast may pose challenging diagnostic problems. To prospectively evaluate the potential role of mammography, ultrasound and image-guided core biopsy in the diagnosis of papillary lesions of the breast. METHODS:1,442 wo...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Puglisi F,Zuiani C,Bazzocchi M,Valent F,Aprile G,Pertoldi B,Minisini AM,Cedolini C,Londero V,Piga A,Di Loreto C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00