Radiation therapy utilization in Medicare beneficiaries with early-stage breast cancer.

abstract：:A case of granulocytic sarcoma involving the uterine cervix as primary manifestation without evidence of leukemia is presented. It was followed by neurological symptoms 19 months later and a right breast mass 26 months after the initial cervical lesion, but still with no evidence of leukemia. Two years and four months...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Seo IS,Hull MT,Pak HY

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clear cell tumors of the thyroid gland in general are uncommon. Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) to the thyroid gland is a rare occurrence but must be considered in the differential diagnosis of a thyroid gland clear cell neoplasm to prevent misclassification, potentially resulting in inappropriate clin...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Heffess CS,Wenig BM,Thompson LD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National Cancer Institute (NCI)/National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)-designated cancer centers (CCs) offer patients state-of-the-art treatment, but their impact on multiple myeloma (MM) patient outcomes has not been evaluated. METHODS:Adult MM patients diagnosed between 1973 and 2011 were identified...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ailawadhi S,Advani P,Yang D,Ghosh R,Swaika A,Roy V,Foran J,Colon-Otero G,Chanan-Khan A

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of the study was to determine the utility of quantitation of the extracellular domain (ECD) of the HER-2/neu receptor in the serum for predicting response to treatment in patients with primary breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant therapy. METHODS:HER-2/neu ECD was measured in sera obtained from 3...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mazouni C,Hall A,Broglio K,Fritsche H,Andre F,Esteva FJ,Hortobagyi GN,Buzdar AU,Pusztai L,Cristofanilli M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that expression of Fas ligand (FasL) in cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and in natural killer (NK) cells plays an important role in Fas-mediated tumor killing, During tumor progression FasL-expressing tumor cells are involved in counterattacking to kill tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Soluble Fa...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kim R,Emi M,Tanabe K,Uchida Y,Toge T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may prevent the development of cancer by inhibiting cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes, which are involved in carcinogenesis. Therefore, the authors of this report examined the association between NSAID use and the risk of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), basal cell carc...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Johannesdottir SA,Chang ET,Mehnert F,Schmidt M,Olesen AB,Sørensen HT

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The frequency of RET rearrangements (RET/PTC) in papillary thyroid carcinomas varies significantly according to geographic area, with the greatest incidence reported in the Belarus region, which is iodine-deficient and was contaminated severely after the Chernobyl reactor accident, and with the lowest incide...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nakazawa T,Kondo T,Kobayashi Y,Takamura N,Murata S,Kameyama K,Muramatsu A,Ito K,Kobayashi M,Katoh R

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Active surveillance (AS) is an accepted means of managing low-risk prostate cancer. Because of the rarity of downstream events, data from existing AS cohorts cannot yet address how differences in surveillance intensity affect metastasis and mortality. This study projected the comparative benefits of differen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lange JM,Laviana AA,Penson DF,Lin DW,Bill-Axelson A,Carlsson SV,Newcomb LF,Trock BJ,Carter HB,Carroll PR,Cooperberg MR,Cowan JE,Klotz LH,Etzioni RB

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nodal status is one of the most important prognostic factors for distal bile duct cancer. The pattern of lymphatic spread of distal bile duct cancer was analyzed by determining the frequency of involvement of various lymph nodes. MATERIALS AND METHODS:From 1973 to 1991, 29 patients with distal bile duct can...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kayahara M,Nagakawa T,Ueno K,Ohta T,Takeda T,Miyazaki I

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bisphosphonates currently are the most important class of antiresorptive agents used in the treatment of metabolic bone diseases, including tumor-associated osteolysis and hypercalcemia, Paget's disease, and osteoporosis. These compounds have high affinity for calcium and therefore target to bone mineral, wh...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rogers MJ,Gordon S,Benford HL,Coxon FP,Luckman SP,Monkkonen J,Frith JC

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：METHODS:The prognostic significance of flow cytometric analysis in patients with node-negative invasive breast carcinoma was evaluated in a retrospective series of 158 patients with a minimum follow-up study of 9 years. RESULTS:The ploidy status could be assessed in 147 specimens (93%), and the proliferative phase or ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bosari S,Lee AK,Tahan SR,Figoni MA,Wiley BD,Heatley GJ,Silverman ML

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-eight patients with metastatic cancer to the lungs underwent flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy for diagnosis. The patients were divided into two groups by presenting radiographic pattern as: (I) diffuse linear interstitial infiltrations (55 patients); and (II) localized or multiple nodular opacities (23 patient...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chuang MT,Padilla ML,Teirstein AS

更新日期：1983-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one patients were treated with cisplatin combination chemotherapy for advanced seminoma (26 Stage III or bulky Stage II testicular, and five disseminated extragonadal). Seventeen (89%) of 19 patients not previously pretreated and four (80%) of five who had received only abdominal irradiation entered continuous ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pizzocaro G,Salvioni R,Piva L,Zanoni F,Milani A,Faustini M

更新日期：1986-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined public attitudes toward pain associated with cancer and its treatment. A variety of issues were assessed, including the extent to which pain is associated with cancer, fear of pain as a factor in the decision to delay seeking treatment, and concerns about the use of narcotic analgesics for pain con...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Levin DN,Cleeland CS,Dar R

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality are observed in the United States. The authors studied this among minority New Yorkers with CRC. METHODS:In a study of CRC patients in a New York City teaching hospital, 5-year data on demographics and clinical features were reviewed. Adjusted cancer-r...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kanna B,Narang TK,Atwal T,Paul D,Azeez S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of patients with breast carcinoma with > or = 10 metastatic axillary lymph nodes (ALNs) develop recurrent disease within 5 years from diagnosis. The purpose of the current study, performed retrospectively, was to characterize the natural history of this subset of patients, both before and after ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Montero AJ,Rouzier R,Lluch A,Theriault RL,Buzdar AU,Delaloge S,Bermejo B,Le M,Kau SW,Dunant A,Arriagada R,Spielmann M,Garcia-Conde J,Sahin AA,Singletary SE,Hortobagyi GN,Valero V

更新日期：2005-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Older adults are an important audience for smoking cessation programs. Over 4.5 million older adults (older than 65) continue to smoke, and the majority are long term, heavy smokers. There is evidence that smoking cessation programs tailored to older smokers can be effective. American Cancer Society (ACS) ma...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rimer BK,Orleans CT

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice were hyperimmunized with ACHN (ATCC CRL 1611, American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Maryland), a stable in vitro cell line derived from a malignant pleural effusion in a 22-year-old man with renal cell carcinoma. The hyperimmune spleen cells were fused with NS-1 murine myeloma cells using polyethyle...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kochevar J

更新日期：1987-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two evidence-based therapies exist for the treatment of high-risk prostate cancer (PCA): external-beam radiotherapy (RT) with hormone therapy (H) (RT + H) and radical prostatectomy (S) with adjuvant radiotherapy (S + RT). Each of these strategies is associated with different rates of local control, distant m...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Parikh R,Sher DJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interferon (IFN) assay of the sera from the 40 patients with head and neck cancer was performed by the plaque-reduction assay with vesicular stomatitis virus in FL cells derived from human amniotic membrane. The patients mainly had Stage III or IV lesion without distant metastasis, and previously had not received ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sato M,Yoshida H,Yanagawa T,Yura Y,Urata M,Atsumi M,Furumoto N,Hayashi Y,Takegawa Y

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence of racial disparities in the receipt of postmastectomy breast reconstruction is well documented. The objective of this study was to describe trends in racial disparities overall and by reconstructive technique. METHODS:The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program d...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Epstein S,Tran BN,Cohen JB,Lin SJ,Singhal D,Lee BT

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The usefulness of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) for the histologic subtyping of specific sarcomas still is somewhat controversial but is becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. METHODS:To determine the accuracy and usefulness of FNAB in the differential diagnosis of myxoid sarcoma, the authors retr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kilpatrick SE,Ward WG,Bos GD

更新日期：2000-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to identify the costs of adjuvant therapies following radical prostatectomy (RP) and factors associated with their receipt. METHODS:We used SEER-Medicare data from 2004-2006 to identify 4247 men who underwent RP, of whom 600 subsequently received adjuvant therapies. We used Cox regression to ident...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Williams SB,Gu X,Lipsitz SR,Nguyen PL,Choueiri TK,Hu JC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, an uncommon lesion of bone and extraskeletal tissue, is rare in the orbit. A case of extraskeletal mesenchymal chondrosarcoma of the orbit in a 28-year-old woman presenting with proptosis and diminution of vision in the left eye is reported. Histologically, the tumor showed areas of undiffe...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bagchi M,Husain N,Goel MM,Agrawal PK,Bhatt S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study was conducted to evaluate the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Depression Short Form (PROMIS-D-SF) as a screening measure for young adult cancer survivors (YACS) compared with a structured diagnostic interview. METHODS:A total of 249 YACS (aged 18-40 years) complete...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Recklitis CJ,Blackmon JE,Chang G

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the years, there has been a continuous increase in clinically relevant driver mutations in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Among these, dysregulated activation of the MET tyrosine kinase receptor has gained importance due to the recent development of quite effective treatments. MET dysregulation...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Friedlaender A,Drilon A,Banna GL,Peters S,Addeo A

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication reports four patients treated with the anthracycline adriamycin and irradiation either concurrently or sequentially, who demonstrated apparent augumentation of radiation reactions. Two of these patients demonstrated the so-called "recall" phenomenon. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cassady JR,Richter MP,Piro AJ,Jaffe N

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to noninvasively discriminate the most common types of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) based on their magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) appearances or their magnetic resonance phenotypes is achievable. Intracellular lipids, a histologic characteristic of the clear cell RCC, can be identified on chemical shift MR...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pedrosa I,Alsop DC,Rofsky NM

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung carcinoma represents the most frequent cause of cancer death worldwide because of tumor metastases. The objective of the current study was to analyze the immunologic response during the progress of lung carcinoma metastasis. METHODS:The authors established two tumor cell lines that were derived from pr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： So T,Takenoyama M,Ichiki Y,Mizukami M,So T,Hanagiri T,Sugio K,Yasumoto K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmenopausal patients with metastatic breast cancer were treated with medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) (Clinovir) in dosages between 500 and 1500 mg orally per day. The relation of MPA plasma concentrations and endocrine effects were studied in a longitudinal fashion. MPA exerted suppressive effects on the basal an...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Blossey HC,Wander HE,Koebberling J,Nagel GA

更新日期：1984-09-15 00:00:00