Barriers to health care contribute to delays in follow-up among women with abnormal cancer screening: Data from the Patient Navigation Research Program.

abstract：BACKGROUND:A Phase II prospective trial was performed to study the efficacy of combination therapy with dexamethasone, calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3), and carboplatin in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). Preclinical data from prostate cancer cell lines suggested a synergistic effect of the...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Flaig TW,Barqawi A,Miller G,Kane M,Zeng C,Crawford ED,Glodé LM

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reflected ultrasound scanning (echography) is rapidly developing into a prime tool for tumor diagnosis, outlining, and detection. The principles of echographic diagnosis of neoplasms, the accepted uses in detection and diagnosis, as well as some of the principles of internal and contour patterns are discussed. Echogra...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Freimanis AK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested methyl glyoxal bis-guanyl hydrazone (NSC 32946) for antitumor activity in patients with colorectal carcinoma and non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma. The drug dose was 500 mg/m2 administered by single weekly injection, and with a provision dose escalation. No responses were seen in 38 evaluable patien...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Killen JY,Mitchell EP,Hoth DF,Willis LL,Gullo JJ,Smith FP,Schein PS,Woolley PV

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of melanoma of the skin diagnosed during pregnancy was compared with a control population of women with melanoma that occurred during the childbearing years, as recorded by the Connecticut Tumor Registry. The survival at three and five years for the 12 patients whose melanoma developed during pregn...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Houghton AN,Flannery J,Viola MV

更新日期：1981-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Optic pathway gliomas (OPGs) are commonly noted in pediatric oncology services. Radiotherapy is effective at controlling tumors, but has many undesirable late effects, especially in patients with neurofibromatosis. Chemotherapy is commonly used to preserve vision and delay or eliminate the need for radiother...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dodgshun AJ,Elder JE,Hansford JR,Sullivan MJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 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:Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HM) is one of the commonest metabolic complications associated with cancer. Plasma parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTH-rp) is known to cause hypercalcemia in the vast majority of patients with HM. METHODS:Fifty-two patients with HM were treated with a single infusion of 60 ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wimalawansa SJ

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Familial breast cancer risk studies usually overlook the dynamic nature of family history. METHODS:The authors assessed the effect of incorporating the timing of cancer diagnosis events into the assessment of familial risks of breast cancer in first-degree and second-degree relatives in a nationwide cohort ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mukama T,Kharazmi E,Sundquist K,Sundquist J,Brenner H,Fallah M

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to determine risk factors that affect locoregional control of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) after radiotherapy. Computed tomography (CT) is utilized for radiotherapy planning and for identifying high risk anatomic areas. METHODS:Between April 1990 and December 1993, 40 consecu...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jian JJ,Cheng SH,Prosnitz LR,Tsai SY,Tsai MJ,Huang AT

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the United States, detection of squamous carcinoma in situ (CIS) by screening has led to reduced rates for invasive squamous carcinoma and lower mortality. Adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) rates also have increased, but invasive cervical adenocarcinoma rates have not declined similarly. To make inferences abo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sherman ME,Wang SS,Carreon J,Devesa SS

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently the prognosis of childhood non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has been poor. A program of combination chemotherapy and involved area radiotherapy was instituted in the Department of Pediatrics at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in 1971. Thirty-one biopsy proven untreated children entered this study. There were 4 St...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brecher ML,Sinks LF,Thomas RR,Freeman AI

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr. Wendell G. Scott hailed mammography as the first significant contribution to the control of breast cancer since Halsted described the radical mastectomy in 1903. Mammography as engendered new approaches and has supplied new concepts of breast cancer. Through the tenacity of a few physicians convinced something cou...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Egan RL

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a man who developed a leiomyosarcoma in association with a surgically created arteriovenous fistula is reported. This unusual complication of a dialysis fistula is the first reported case of a leiomyosarcoma occurring in a surgically created fistula. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Weinreb W,Steinfeld A,Rodil J,Esparza A,Trebbin W

更新日期：1983-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemangiopericytomas and malignant solitary fibrous tumors (HPC/SFT) are rare, closely related sarcomas with unpredictable behavior that respond infrequently to chemotherapy. An optimal systemic treatment strategy for advanced HPC/SFT has not yet been identified. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed the recor...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Park MS,Patel SR,Ludwig JA,Trent JC,Conrad CA,Lazar AJ,Wang WL,Boonsirikamchai P,Choi H,Wang X,Benjamin RS,Araujo DM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study assessed the feasibility of a mentored home-based vegetable gardening intervention and examined changes in health-related outcomes among breast cancer survivors (BCS). METHODS:BCS were randomized to either a year-long vegetable gardening intervention to begin immediately or a wait-list con...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bail JR,Frugé AD,Cases MG,De Los Santos JF,Locher JL,Smith KP,Cantor AB,Cohen HJ,Demark-Wahnefried W

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) exhaled by lung cancer cells in the microenvironment are the source biomarkers of lung cancer and also serve as direct evidence that the diagnosis of lung cancer by breath is possible. However, to the authors' knowledge, few articles published to date have provi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chen X,Xu F,Wang Y,Pan Y,Lu D,Wang P,Ying K,Chen E,Zhang W

更新日期：2007-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic effect of prednimustine was studied in 35 patients with advanced breast cancer resistant to previous cytotoxic and/or endocrine therapy. Response (PR + CR) was obtained in 14 patients (40%) of a median duration of five months. Among the 14 responding patients, 10 were resistant to previous endocrine th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mouridsen HT,Kristensen D,Nielsen JH,Dombernowsky P

更新日期：1980-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with biopsy-proven lentigo maligna were treated with topical 5-fluorouracil. Treatment consisted of twice daily application of 5% 5-fluorouracil cream for 13, 6, and 9 weeks, respectively. Two patients demonstrated presence of invasive melanoma; in one the melanoma was evident before chemotherapy, and i...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Litwin MS,Krementz ET,Mansell PW,Reed RJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of Japanese and American pathologists reviewed existing histologic material used to study breast cancer risk among the A-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a population in which incidence studies have found a strong relationship between breast cancer risk and radiation dose. The primary charge to the pa...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tokuoka S,Asano M,Yamamoto T,Tokunaga M,Sakamoto G,Hartmann WH,Hutter RV,Land CE,Henson DE

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 3 1/2 year cytogenetic study of 107 leukemia patients diagnosed in childhood and adloescence, 8 presented with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Seven of the 8 had chromosomal abnormalities. Six had the Ph1 chromosome; 5 had the usual 9;22 translocation. Two patients had involvement with chromosome 15; one had ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hays T,Morse H,Peakman D,Rose B,Robinson A

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and primary fibrinolysis have both been reported in association with prostate carcinoma. The correct diagnosis of the coagulopathy can be difficult and the appropriate management controversial. METHODS:A case is presented of a man in whom DIC and soft tissue hemo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cooper DL,Sandler AB,Wilson LD,Duffy TP

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 74 cases of transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis and ureter treated at this institution over the past 30 years is presented. When nephrectomy alone or incomplete nephroureterectomy was performed, subsequent transitional cell carcinoma developed in 30% of the ureteral stumps. Subs...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Strong DW,Pearse HD

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although weight loss has an adverse impact on cancer patient survival, the ability of caloric provision via total parenteral nutrition (TPN) to favorably influence outcome in chemotherapy-treated populations is not established. In randomized trials, no significant improvement in either response or survival was associa...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chlebowski RT

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, invasion of vascular spaces by endometrial carcinoma has received particular attention as a prognostic factor. The goal of the current investigation was to re-examine the effect of vascular invasion on tumor recurrence and survival in patients with endometrial carcinoma. METHODS:Surgical specimens...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Inoue Y,Obata K,Abe K,Ohmura G,Doh K,Yoshioka T,Hoshiai H,Noda K

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since primary lymphoma of bone (PLB) exhibits morphologic diversity and variability in individual survival, we analyzed the relationship between histopathologic features and biological behavior in 33 patients treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Three major histologic subgroups were identified, based on a va...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dosoretz DE,Raymond AK,Murphy GF,Doppke KP,Schiller AL,Wang CC,Suit HD

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The difficulties adolescents and young adults (AYAs) encounter during a cancer experience may result in a reduction in or absence of empowerment. The aims of the current study were to assess levels of empowerment and associated (demographic, clinical, or psychological) factors and examine the association bet...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kaal SEJ,Husson O,van Duivenboden S,Jansen R,Manten-Horst E,Servaes P,Prins JB,van den Berg SW,van der Graaf WTA

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the case of a 40-year-old white man with an obstructing laryngeal mass. Despite considerable tumor size, results of repeated biopsies revealed widespread carcinoma in situ with chronic inflammation within the subcutaneous tissues, and only after extensive endoscopic "debulking" of the mass was a sm...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Eskinazi DP,Mihail R,Dichtel WG

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of angiosarcoma of the breast with a fatal outcome is reported, and the world literature on this rare type of breast tumor is reviewed. Familiarity with the clinical and pathologic features of this entity is essential in avoiding underdiagnosis and delay of definitive treatment. The three-year survival rate of ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chen KT,Kirkegaard DD,Bocian JJ

更新日期：1980-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological aging pathways accelerated by cancer treatments may be a mechanism for cognitive impairment in cancer survivors. The goal of the current study was to examine whether indicators of biological aging, namely elevated levels of DNA damage, reduced telomerase enzymatic activity, and shorter peripheral ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Carroll JE,Van Dyk K,Bower JE,Scuric Z,Petersen L,Schiestl R,Irwin MR,Ganz PA

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pel-Epstein fever cycles, consisting of 1-2 weeks of high fever separated by afebrile periods of the same duration, are classically characteristic of Hodgkin's disease. Clinical observation has determined that the lymph nodes enlarge during periods of fever and reduce in size as the fever subsides. To our knowledge, t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Scanlon GT,Castellino RA,Rudders R

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00