Combined therapy for metastatic extradural tumors of the spine.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancers that are negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (triple negative [TN]) have been associated with high-grade histology, aggressive clinical behavior, and poor survival. It has been determined that breast cancers that ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brown M,Tsodikov A,Bauer KR,Parise CA,Caggiano V

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inferior vena cava obstruction (IVCO) is a poorly characterized complication of metastatic germ cell tumor (GCT). The authors identified 31 cases to describe the clinical features, radiologic findings, complications, and treatment of this clinical entity. METHODS:Patients with GCT and IVCO were identified f...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hassan B,Tung K,Weeks R,Mead GM

更新日期：1999-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A summary is presented of those organ specific enzyme assays traditionally used in evaluation of the patient with cancer. In addition, the use of certain serum enzymes such as gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, phosphohexose isomerase or 5'-nucleotidase as aids in following the course of the disease, particularly in patie...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schwartz MK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Early Lung Cancer Action Project (ELCAP) is designed to evaluate baseline and annual repeat screening by low radiation dose computed tomography (low-dose CT) in persons at high-risk for lung cancer. The authors report on the baseline screening experience. For full evaluation of screening, they await the ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Henschke CI

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the small number of cases (five) reported between 1929 and 1969 and a significant increase reported in the decade of the 1970s, the Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry was established in 1981 to study the occurrence of familial ovarian cancer in the United States. METHODS:Any woman (with or without ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Piver MS,Baker TR,Jishi MF,Sandecki AM,Tsukada Y,Natarajan N,Mettlin CJ,Blake CA

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Research trends on quality of life outcomes for cancer survivors are discussed. Epidemiologic data indicate that female cancer survivors, coming primarily from patient groups with gynecologic, breast, and colorectal cancers, will outnumber male survivors 3 to 1. Male survivors will come from the ranks of patient group...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Andersen BL

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The hematologic factors of 16 female patients with breast carcinoma who had received adjuvant chemotherapy with L-phenylalanine-based programs for two years were compared with those for 13 normal female volunteers of similar age. The findings include significant suppression of the mean hemoglobin level, of leukocyte c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Corder MP,Jochimsen PR

更新日期：1982-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Since single drug therapy of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has not resulted in prolonged remissions of advanced disease, we initiated a program of combination chemotherapy, COP (cycloposphamide, vincristine sulfate, prednisone) for CLL patients with increasing adenopathy, spenomegaly, and/or signs of marrow failu...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Liepman M,Votaw ML

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Met/hepatocyte growth factor receptor and its family members are known to promote cancer cell migration and invasion. Signaling within and beyond this pathway contributes to the systemic spread of metastases through induction of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, a process also implicated in mediating resist...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bhardwaj V,Cascone T,Cortez MA,Amini A,Evans J,Komaki RU,Heymach JV,Welsh JW

更新日期：2013-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lesions that contain abundant myoepithelial cells may present as a diagnostic challenge in fine-needle aspiration (FNA) specimens. Potential diagnostic problems may arise due to morphologic heterogeneity of myoepithelial cell-rich lesions and difficulty in predicting malignancy in FNA specimens. An accurate ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Darvishian F,Lin O

更新日期：2004-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of Poly (C) avid ribonuclease was estimated in sera of 129 patients with different malignancies. All patients had histologically verified carcinomas, normal renal function, and no signs of acute catabolic condition. Activity values were compared with those of normal subjects (U-test, Mann and Whitney) separat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Francesconi M,Meryn S,Rogan AM,Szalay S,Graninger W,Schmidbauer CP

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although several refinements have been reported for breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), there has been no uniform agreement by researchers on the optimal method. The authors report a simple and effective MRI method that incorporated the best qualities of other breast MRI methods yet eliminated the compl...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Khatri VP,Stuppino JJ,Espinosa MH,Pollack MS

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The overexpression of HER-2 occurs in a minority of patients with nonsmall cell lung carcinoma. Trastuzumab, which is a monoclonal antibody to HER-2, is an effective treatment in some women with breast carcinomas that overexpress HER-2, as demonstrated by immunohistochemistry. The objective of this Phase II ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Clamon G,Herndon J,Kern J,Govindan R,Garst J,Watson D,Green M,Cancer and Leukemia Group B.

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laryngeal cancer is the primary cause of death among patients with head and neck cancer in Argentina. Different prognostic factors have been incidentally dealt with in a number of articles, but there are few studies of prognostic variables, such as age, tobacco, and alcohol, using multifactorial analysis. M...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pradier R,González A,Matos E,Loria D,Adan R,Saco P,Califano L

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible role of sex-hormone imbalance in hepatocellular carcinogenesis in male alcoholic cirrhotic patients, we determined plasma levels of testosterone (T), dihydrotestosterone (DHT), androstenedione (A), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHA), estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), and sex-hormone-binding globulin ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Guéchot J,Peigney N,Ballet F,Vaubourdolle M,Giboudeau J,Poupon R

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural history of the development of neoplasia in experimental systems may be separated into at least three different stages, those of initiation, promotion and progression. Evidence for such distinct stages has been demonstrated in at least half a dozen different experimental systems. The stage of promotion is t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pitot HC

更新日期：1982-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 314 children with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) were reviewed to determine the frequency, clinical and laboratory features; contributing factors; and prognosis of cyclophosphamide-induced hemorrhagic cystitis. Twenty-five well-documented cases of hemorrhagic cystitis were identified. While most of th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lawrence HJ,Simone J,Aur RJ

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung carcinoma usually is advanced at the time of presentation and frequently shows metastatic spread. In recent times, prognostic factors such as c-erbB-2 in patients with breast carcinoma have provided useful information and beneficial therapeutic targets. The objective of this study was to evaluate angiog...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Toomey D,Smyth G,Condron C,Kay E,Conroy R,Foley D,Hong C,Hogan B,Toner S,McCormick P,Broe P,Kelly C,Bouchier-Hayes D

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia seen in the University of Colorado Leukemia Clinic were reviewed with respect to therapy. A total of 55 patients seen consecutively through mid 1980 were included in this study. Of these patients 30 were treated with busulfan, 14 were treated with hydroxyurea and 11 r...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bolin RW,Robinson WA,Sutherland J,Hamman RF

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognostic relevance of activated oncogenes and oncoproteins has not been well studied in papillary thyroid cancer, which is slow-growing, with only regional spread in most cases. Therefore, the influence of some protein markers and tumor cell proliferation on disease progress in a series of patients wit...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Akslen LA,Varhaug JE

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sunitinib has replaced interferon (IFN) as a first-line standard of care in the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). This study aimed to determine overall survival and to confirm effectiveness in a population that includes poor prognosis patients. METHODS:Data were collected on all patients i...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Heng DY,Chi KN,Murray N,Jin T,Garcia JA,Bukowski RM,Rini BI,Kollmannsberger C

更新日期：2009-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This overview highlights the use of experimental models in selecting monoclonal antibodies and radiolabels with promise for clinical radioimmunotherapy, discusses some of the experimental therapeutic approaches being studies in these models, and reviews some of the limitations of animal models caused by the allometric...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wahl RL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The psychological adaptation to a cancer diagnosis is characterized by significant distress. Although distress levels in cancer patients have been reported to be the highest shortly after diagnosis and before treatment, few attempts have been made to study emotional adjustment during the diagnostic period of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Perczek RE,Burke MA,Carver CS,Krongrad A,Terris MK

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The inherited, low-penetrance arginine-to-histidine substitution at codon 337 (R337H) of the tumor protein 53 gene (TP53) is clustered in southeast Brazil (estimated frequency, 0.3%). Although its tumorigenic effect initially appeared to be tissue-specific, recent evidence suggests its association with a bro...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Seidinger AL,Mastellaro MJ,Paschoal Fortes F,Godoy Assumpção J,Aparecida Cardinalli I,Aparecida Ganazza M,Correa Ribeiro R,Brandalise SR,Dos Santos Aguiar S,Yunes JA

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-dose continuous infusion 5-fluorouracil (LDCI-FU) was administered to 28 women with advanced breast carcinoma. Daily doses ranged from 175 to 250 mg/m2. The LDCI-FU was delivered continuously until the appearance of toxicity and was reinstituted at a 20% dose reduction after toxicity completely resolved. Patients ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Huan S,Pazdur R,Singhakowinta A,Samal B,Vaitkevicius VK

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings succumbed to glioblastoma multiforme, associated with hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia and cafe-au-lait spots. One sibling had syndactyly and multiple colonic polyps, while the other had an angiomatous malformation in the brain. Their mother died of myasthenia gravis. The findings suggest a hamartomatous...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Everson RB,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monozygotic twins developed gastric cancers that were found almost simultaneously. A 47-year-old man complained of nausea and vomiting; an upper gastrointestinal series and endoscopy revealed advanced gastric cancer invading the serosa. Palliative subtotal gastrectomy was performed. In his asymptomatic twin a gastric ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Matsukura N,Onda M,Tokunaga A,Yoshiyuki T,Shimizu Y,Nishi K,Furukawa K,Yoshiyasu M,Kiyama T,Tanaka N

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationships between psychological and behavioral variables and patient outcomes after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are not known definitively but have great potential importance, since this lifesaving procedure is used increasingly to treat a variety of malignancies. The objective of ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chang G,Orav EJ,McNamara T,Tong MY,Antin JH

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 27 typical Krukenberg tumors of the ovary were analyzed. By definition, all examples were characterized by the presence of mucinous signet-ring carcinoma cells within a cellular, nonneoplastic ovarian stroma. The patients' ages ranged from 20-70 years; almost one-half were 40 years of age or younger. A pri...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Holtz F,Hart WR

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of carcinoid tumor of the gallbladder associated with adenocarcinoma in a 56-year-old man is reported and a review of the literature is made. The tumor was a polypoid mass with a size of 5.5 X 4.0 X 2.8 cm. Histologically, the tumor showed carcinoid and adenocarcinoma with areas of mucous change. Tumor cells co...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wada A,Ishiguro S,Tateishi R,Ishikawa O,Matsui Y

更新日期：1983-05-15 00:00:00