A comparative study of a BCNU containing 4-drug program versus MOPP versus 3-drug combinations in advanced Hodgkin's disease: a cooperative study by the Cancer and Leukemia Group B.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Well differentiated (WD) and dedifferentiated (DD) retroperitoneal liposarcoma (RPLS) have distinct biologic behaviors. Consequently, the therapeutic approaches for these tumors differ and mandate an accurate preoperative diagnosis. The authors of this report evaluated whether computed tomography (CT) can be...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lahat G,Madewell JE,Anaya DA,Qiao W,Tuvin D,Benjamin RS,Lev DC,Pollock RE

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is questionable whether enrollment on clinical trials offers any survival advantage at the population level over standard-of-care treatment. The objectives of this study were to describe the impact of trial enrollment on event-free survival and overall survival in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) us...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Truong TH,Pole JD,Barber R,Dix D,Kulkarni KP,Martineau E,Randall A,Stammers D,Strahlendorf C,Strother D,Sung L

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-six patients with malignant germ cell tumors of the ovary received vincristine, dactinomycin, and cyclophosphamide (VAC) postoperatively. Fifty-four were treated after removal of all gross disease. The majority of these remain disease-free. Indeed, only 15 (28%) have failed, including 11 of 24 with pure endode...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Slayton RE,Park RC,Silverberg SG,Shingleton H,Creasman WT,Blessing JA

更新日期：1985-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meticulous selection of patients for esophageal cancer surgery is critical, because major surgical intervention can cause considerable consequences. For this study, the authors explored their institution's large surgical experience to examine the impact of age on long-term patient survival and surgical compl...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Braiteh F,Correa AM,Hofstetter WL,Rice DC,Vaporciyan AA,Walsh GL,Roth JA,Mehran RJ,Swisher SG,Ajani JA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal carcinoma is the second most common cause of cancer death with African Americans having lower survival compared with White Americans. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of demographics, clinical factors, and socioeconomic status (SES) on racial disparities in colorectal cancer...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yan B,Noone AM,Yee C,Banerjee M,Schwartz K,Simon MS

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September 1976 and May 1980, 135 patients with operable breast cancer and positive axillary nodes received l-phenylalanine mustard, adjunct to surgery, 0.15 mg/kg for five days, six weekly, and were randomised prospectively to levamisole 150 mg for three days, two weekly, or a placebo. Treatment was continued ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kay RG,Mason BH,Stephens EJ,Arthur JF,Hitchcock GC,Trindall PL,Rodgers R,Mullins P

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the issues being addressed in mammography quality assurance are 1) that image quality is the most important technical aspect of mammography; 2) that image quality has improved steadily over the past two decades and will continue to improve at most mammography sites in the United States; 3) that the American Co...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hendrick RE

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven lymphomas of bone were studied, including 33 diffuse large cell lymphomas, three undifferentiated (small noncleaved cell) lymphomas, and one well-differentiated (small) lymphocytic lymphoma. The large cell lymphomas were subclassified as large cleaved, large noncleaved, multilobated cell, and immunoblasti...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Clayton F,Butler JJ,Ayala AG,Ro JY,Zornoza J

更新日期：1987-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:US breast cancer mortality is declining, but thousands of women still die each year. METHODS:Two established simulation models examine 6 strategies that include increased screening and/or treatment or elimination of obesity versus continuation of current patterns. The models use common national data on inci...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mandelblatt J,van Ravesteyn N,Schechter C,Chang Y,Huang AT,Near AM,de Koning H,Jemal A

更新日期：2013-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve Schwann cell tumors (two neurilemomas, six neurofibromas, and four malignant schwannomas), arising in the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses or nasopharynx, are described. Schwann cell neoplasms only rarely develop in this area. Clinically, these tumors lead to nonspecific symptoms including nasal obstruction epis...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Perzin KH,Panyu H,Wechter S

更新日期：1982-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to examine the source of advanced cancer patients' information about their prognosis and determine whether this source of information could explain racial disparities in the accuracy of patients' life expectancy estimates (LEEs). METHODS:Coping With Cancer was a prospective, ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Trevino KM,Zhang B,Shen MJ,Prigerson HG

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial biopsy and resection specimens from 78 cerebral astrocytomas with anaplastic foci occurring in adults were examined for the presence of five specific histologic features traditionally considered indicative of anaplasia. Anaplastic astrocytomas with foci of tumor necrosis had been classified as glioblastoma mul...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fulling KH,Garcia DM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytogenetic findings in 31 liposarcomas from 26 patients are reported. Four other tumors did not grow. Three histologic types are represented in this analysis. The well-differentiated liposarcomas were characterized by telomeric associations, large marker chromosomes and ring chromosomes, and in some cases, double...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sreekantaiah C,Karakousis CP,Leong SP,Sandberg AA

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Light microscopic, immunocytochemical and ultrastructural studies were performed on chondrosarcomas which contained a second, noncartilagenous mesenchymal component. Attention was focused on the nonchondroid portion of each tumor in an attempt to elucidate the histogenesis of this mixed variant of chondrosarcoma. The ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Têtu B,Ordóñez NG,Ayala AG,Mackay B

更新日期：1986-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of BCR-ABL as the defining leukemogenic event in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) revolutionized the treatment of the disease. Imatinib, a potent BCR-ABL inhibitor, is the standard of care for the first-line treatment of patients with chronic-phase CML because of its high long-term response rates and ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kantarjian HM,Cortes J,La Rosée P,Hochhaus A

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For women who are candidates for menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), estrogen can provide relief from symptomatic menopause, decrease rates of chronic illnesses, and improve health-related quality of life. However, confusion surrounds the evidence regarding the impact of exogenous estrogen and progesterone on the breast...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Temkin SM,Mallen A,Bellavance E,Rubinsak L,Wenham RM

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with advanced salivary gland malignancies were treated with combination chemotherapy. Five of 13 patients responded to cyclophosphamide and adriamycin and two patients in the responding groups underwent further potentially curable treatment, rendering them disease-free. Three patients with mucoepider...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Posner MR,Ervin TJ,Weichselbaum RR,Fabian RL,Miller D

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The altered and anomalous expression of carbohydrate antigens (CA) occur in patients with lung carcinomas. METHODS:To investigate the relationship between prognosis and immunohistochemical findings of CA in serum and pulmonary adenocarcinomas (PA), PA specimens surgically resected from 102 patients were stu...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kawai T,Suzuki M,Kase K,Ozeki Y

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solitary tumor which by light microscopy was calssified as a neurofibroma was found by electron microscopic study to be composed of parallel, elongate cells with collagen rich intervening matrix. The cells showed thin, polar cytoplasmic processes which extended long distances, frequent junctional complexes between c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lazarus SS,Trombetta LD

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption that asymptomatic colorectal cancers bleed provides the rationale for widespread stool screening. The authors studied 12 patients with unoperated colorectal cancer but without colorectal symptoms and six healthy volunteers as laboratory controls. All stools were collected for 2 weeks and analyzed by the...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ahlquist DA,McGill DB,Fleming JL,Schwartz S,Wieand HS,Rubin J,Moertel CG

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear whether new treatment modalities have improved the survival of follicular lymphoma patients. Some data show that there has been no improvement in survival in the last 3 decades of the 20th century, whereas the results of recent retrospective studies suggest that evolving therapy has improved th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sacchi S,Pozzi S,Marcheselli L,Bari A,Luminari S,Angrilli F,Merli F,Vallisa D,Baldini L,Brugiatelli M,Italian Lymphoma Study Group.

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LC) represents a devastating complication of systemic cancer, and patients with LC have a dismal prognosis and increased mortality. The few studies that have focused on the evaluation of prognostic factors in patients with LC have resulted in contradictory results. Thus, the tr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bruna J,González L,Miró J,Velasco R,Gil M,Tortosa A,Neuro-Oncology Unit of the Institute of Biomedical Investigation of Bellvitge.

更新日期：2009-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether the presence of more than 5% blasts in a differential count of cytocentrifuged cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with less than 6 leukocytes/microliter was predictive of central nervous system (CNS) relapse in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). A double concent...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Odom LF,Wilson H,Cullen J,Bank J,Blake M,Jamieson B

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sunitinib and sorafenib are small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) with antitumor activity in advanced renal cell carcinoma. A retrospective study was conducted to assess the response of renal cell carcinoma to sequential treatment with these two agents. METHODS:Tumor response was evaluated by usin...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dudek AZ,Zolnierek J,Dham A,Lindgren BR,Szczylik C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) have a history of previous malignancies. To the authors' knowledge, outcomes for CML diagnosed in these patients have not been well described. The current study was conducted to determine the outcome of patients with CML and a history of prior malignancies. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Koller PB,Kantarjian HM,Nogueras-Gonzalez GM,Jabbour E,Verstovsek S,Borthakur G,Estrov Z,Wierda WG,Garcia-Manero G,Ferrajoli A,Ravandi F,O'Brien SM,Cortes JE

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to characterize insulin receptor (IR) and insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) expression in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS:A total of 459 patients who underwent curative resection of NSCLC were studied (median follow-up duration, 4.01 years)...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kim JS,Kim ES,Liu D,Lee JJ,Solis L,Behrens C,Lippman SM,Hong WK,Wistuba II,Lee HY

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the widespread use of Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening, substantial morbidity and mortality from cervical carcinoma continue in the U.S. Although access to screening is a major barrier to use of the Pap smear, invasive cervical carcinoma (ICC) still is observed in health plan members who have compr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sung HY,Kearney KA,Miller M,Kinney W,Sawaya GF,Hiatt RA

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the remote effects of cancer on the neurologic system, paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD), characterized by global cerebellar dysfunction, is second only to paraneoplastic neuropathies in frequency. Recent evidence, including the finding of anti-Purkinje cell (now termed anti-Yo) antibodies directed again...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Waterhouse DM,Natale RB,Cody RL

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is a neoplasm of late adult life and often is reported in the pediatric population. It is thought to behave more benignly in children than in adults. METHOD:Clinical and pathologic features, treatment, and outcome of nine pediatric patients seen at British Columbia's Chi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cole CH,Magee JF,Gianoulis M,Rogers PC

更新日期：1993-06-15 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