A meta-analytic review of religious or spiritual involvement and social health among cancer patients.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of many reports, it remains unclear whether the presence of tumor cells in circulating blood flow predicts a poor prognosis. METHODS:Competitive seminested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), a technique for the quantitative detection of tumor cells, was applied to detect the ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sadahiro S,Suzuki T,Tokunaga N,Yurimoto S,Yasuda S,Tajima T,Makuuchi H,Murayama C,Matsuda K

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometry was used to compare binding of wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and Lens culinaris lectin (Lcl) to peripheral lymphocytes (PBL) from normal subjects and 26 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). As defined by the interactions of WGA and Lcl with cell surface receptors, normal unfractionated PBL an...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Boldt DH,Nelson MO

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the current study, the authors attempted to describe the incidence, most common sites, and mortality of second primary malignancies among survivors of common cancers. METHODS:The authors identified patients aged ≥18 years who were diagnosed with a primary malignancy from the 10 most common cancer sites (...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Donin N,Filson C,Drakaki A,Tan HJ,Castillo A,Kwan L,Litwin M,Chamie K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple intraesophageal primary cancer and upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancer associated with esophageal cancer are common diseases, especially in heavy drinkers. They are often explained by the concept of field cancerization, which suggests a similar etiology. However, little is known about the nature...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yokoyama A,Muramatsu T,Ohmori T,Makuuchi H,Higuchi S,Matsushita S,Yoshino K,Maruyama K,Nakano M,Ishii H

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While investigating the cause of mild polycythemia in a young man, a testicular seminoma was discovered with unusual and tumor-dependent features: an absolute polycythemia with high plasma erythropoietin (EPO) levels, an overproduction of estradiol and testosterone, and a dramatic Leydig cell hyperplasia surrounding t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Reman O,Reznik Y,Casadevall N,Lacombe C,Troussard X,Mandard JC,Leporrier M,Mahoudeau J

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) response to therapy remains challenging. The objective of this study was to investigate whether changes in the tumor/parenchyma interface are associated with response. METHODS:Computed tomography (CT) scans before and after therapy were reviewed in 4...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Amer AM,Zaid M,Chaudhury B,Elganainy D,Lee Y,Wilke CT,Cloyd J,Wang H,Maitra A,Wolff RA,Varadhachary G,Overman MJ,Lee JE,Fleming JB,Tzeng CW,Katz MH,Holliday EB,Krishnan S,Minsky BD,Herman JM,Taniguchi CM,Das P,

更新日期：2018-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The physician must suspect pancreatic cancer in patients older than age 40 years who present with minimal vague symptoms. The presence of common disorders such as gallstones, hiatal hernia and diverticulosis coli, does not exclude pancreatic cancer. Ultrasonography, computed tomography, ERCP and cytology are the essen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Moossa AR

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of immunotherapy with Nocardia rubra cell-wall skeleton (N-CWS) on remission duration and survival of adults with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) was studied in a prospective randomized controlled study. After having been induced into complete remission and having been consolidated, 73 patients were random...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ohno R,Nakamura H,Kodera Y,Ezaki K,Yokomaku S,Oguma S,Kubota Y,Shibata H,Ogawa N,Masaoka T

更新日期：1986-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors observed the clinical course of 24 women with surgically removed prolactinomas for a mean postoperative interval of 62 months. The frequency of late tumor recurrence and probable factors responsible for the recurrence were investigated. Hyperprolactinemia recurred in 4 of 13 patients with microadenomas (31...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Parl FF,Cruz VE,Cobb CA,Bradley CA,Aleshire SL

更新日期：1986-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17-year-old girl was operated for a solitary well-circumscribed pulmonary parenchymal tumor and reoperated ten times for multiple recurrent similar pulmonary tumors during 24 years. Histologic examination revealed the so-called intravascular bronchioloalveolar tumor (IVBAT) in all instances. The patient died from pn...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Miettinen M,Collan Y,Halttunen P,Maamies T,Vilkko P

更新日期：1987-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factors contributing to the lower likelihood of urologist follow-up among African American (AA) men diagnosed with prostate cancer may not be strictly related to patient factors. The authors investigated the relationship between crime, poverty, and poor housing, among others, and postdiagnosis urologist visi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Onukwugha E,Osteen P,Jayasekera J,Mullins CD,Mair CA,Hussain A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whereas the role of specific symptoms, such as pain and fatigue, for quality of life (QOL) is unquestioned, their relative importance for long-lasting impairments in QOL in cancer patients has rarely been assessed quantitatively. The authors, therefore, aimed to identify symptoms most predictive of limitatio...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Arndt V,Stegmaier C,Ziegler H,Brenner H

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase 1) is a pancreatic enzyme that is present at high levels in the serum of most patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. For this reason, the authors studied its patterns of expression at the single-cell level in pancreatic adenocarcinoma tissues by immunohistochemical anal...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Peracaula R,Cleary KR,Lorenzo J,de Llorens R,Frazier ML

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality assurance for the management of multicenter clinical trials requires timely patient and data accrual and consistency with design parameters. Data from central pathology review, treatment modality, and follow-up as well as trial end points direct the selection of appropriate compliance measures. To integrate th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pollock BH

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many areas of health care, whether patients receive specific medical interventions often is influenced heavily by the local availability of resources for delivering those services. However, relations between resource availability and utilization are relatively unexplored in cancer care, including perioper...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wong SL,Wei Y,Birkmeyer JD

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition by tumor cells of the ability to metastasize is the critical event in the clinical course of most human neoplastic disease. While metastasis plays a pivotal role in the ultimate success of failure of therapy, it is in fact a result of a more insidious malignant process termed tumor progression. It is t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Frost P,Fidler IJ

更新日期：1986-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several histologic classifications of thymomas have been proposed, and attempts have been made to correlate the different histologic subtypes to clinical behavior and prognosis. Recently, Marino and Müller-Hermelink and Kirchner et al. proposed a new morphologic classification of thymomas based on the resemb...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Quintanilla-Martinez L,Wilkins EW Jr,Choi N,Efird J,Hug E,Harris NL

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of nine US multicenter, sequential crossover, dose titration studies of controlled-release oral morphine (MS Contin 30 mg tablets [MSC], Purdue Frederick, Norwalk, CT) are reviewed in Part I. The studies demonstrated the prolonged analgesic efficacy of the preparation in the treatment of patients with mode...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kaiko RF,Grandy RP,Oshlack B,Pav J,Horodniak J,Thomas G,Ingber E,Goldenheim PD

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of research has demonstrated that individuals who live in neighborhoods with more severe socioeconomic deprivation may have higher risks for colorectal cancer (CRC). However, previous studies have examined neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) at only 1 point in time, and it is unclear wheth...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zhang D,Matthews CE,Powell-Wiley TM,Xiao Q

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Commission on Cancer data from the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) report time trends in stage of disease, treatment patterns, and survival for patients with selected cancers. The most current data (1993) for patients with colon cancer are described. METHODS:Five calls for data yielded 3,700,000 cases of c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jessup JM,McGinnis LS,Steele GD Jr,Menck HR,Winchester DP

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on laboratory studies showing enhanced cytotoxicity of floxuridine (FUDR) when used with high doses of leucovorin (LV), a pilot study of FUDR and LV through an implantable pump was initiated for the treatment of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer. The highest dose of LV that could be administered, taking ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kemeny N,Cohen A,Bertino JR,Sigurdson ER,Botet J,Oderman P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lobular neoplasia (LN), also known as lobular carcinoma in situ, is an incidental histologic finding in tissue removed at breast surgery. Patients with LN are known to be predisposed to develop invasive or intraductal carcinoma (CA). This study investigates factors that influence the cancer risk in LN patien...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bodian CA,Perzin KH,Lattes R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare but aggressive form of breast cancer. Despite multimodality treatment, the long-term survival rate for patients with IBC has remained inferior at 50%. Until recently, IBC was understudied at the molecular level. Since 2004, new high-throughput molecular profiling te...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bertucci F,Finetti P,Birnbaum D,Viens P

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors and the malignant carcinoid syndrome were treated with cyproheptadine (Periactin, Merck, Sharp & Dohme, West Point, PA) at maximum tolerable doses that ranged from 12 to 48 mg daily. Usual side effects were mild sedation and dry mouth, but three patients found it ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Moertel CG,Kvols LK,Rubin J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent evidence has identified pre-existing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) as a risk factor for the development of PAC, but relatively little is known about its effects on survival. Our aim was to determine the effect of varying durations of pre-existing T2DM on survival in patients with PAC. METHODS:We co...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hwang A,Narayan V,Yang YX

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The results of a Phase II study of concurrent chemotherapy and accelerated fractionation radiation therapy followed by surgical resection for patients with both adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus are presented. Pretreatment and postinduction staging were correlated with pathologic fi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Adelstein DJ,Rice TW,Becker M,Larto MA,Kirby TJ,Koka A,Tefft M,Zuccaro G

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exercise is a modifiable lifestyle risk factor associated with prostate cancer risk reduction. However, whether this association is different as a function of race is unclear. In the current study, the authors attempted to characterize the link between exercise and prostate cancer (CaP) in white and black Am...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Singh AA,Jones LW,Antonelli JA,Gerber L,Calloway EE,Shuler KH,Freedland SJ,Grant DJ,Hoyo C,Bañez LL

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although caspase recruitment domain (CARD) membrane-associated guanylate kinase (MAGUK) protein 1 (CARMA1) and CARD9 play important roles in lymphocyte activation, the significance of CARMA1 and CARD9 in the pathogenesis of gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma remains to be elucidated. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nakamura S,Nakamura S,Matsumoto T,Yada S,Hirahashi M,Suekane H,Yao T,Goda K,Iida M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognosis of patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic body and tail is extremely poor. Anatomically, this part of the pancreas is thin, and cancerous invasion to the retropancreatic structures occurs easily. The majority of patients have residual tumor in the retroperitoneal tissues after conventional ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ozaki H,Kinoshita T,Kosuge T,Yamamoto J,Shimada K,Inoue K,Koyama Y,Mukai K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) plays an important role in lymphangiogenesis and activates VEGF receptor 3 (VEGFR-3). By contrast, lymphatic spread is an important prognostic factor in patients with nonsmall cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). The objective of the current study was to determine whethe...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Arinaga M,Noguchi T,Takeno S,Chujo M,Miura T,Uchida Y

更新日期：2003-01-15 00:00:00