Preleukemic changes in cases of nonlymphocytic leukemia secondary to cytotoxic therapy. Analysis of 105 cases.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Up to now, the expression of the tumor-associated Thomsen-Friedenreich (TF) antigen in colorectal carcinoma has not been thoroughly investigated with particular emphasis on its correlation with established clinicopathologic characteristics and classifications as well as its prognostic relevance. METHODS:For...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Baldus SE,Zirbes TK,Hanisch FG,Kunze D,Shafizadeh ST,Nolden S,Mönig SP,Schneider PM,Karsten U,Thiele J,Hölscher AH,Dienes HP

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiation recall is a recurrence of acute toxicity within a previously quiescent radiation field that occurs with subsequent administration of chemotherapy. METHODS:A patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related Kaposi sarcoma (KS) who had radiation recall is reported. The patient was par...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Stelzer KJ,Griffin TW,Koh WJ

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality assurance (QA) of clinical practice is important for any medical specialty. Programs based on the Patterns of Care Study (PCS) have been developed to compare the quality of radiotherapeutic care at individual institutions, with the national average representing the process and outcome of radiotherapy...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tanisada K,Teshima T,Ohno Y,Inoue T,Abe M,Ikeda H,Owen JB,Hanks GE,Masuda K,Honke Y

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stage IV-S neuroblastoma is a unique disseminated neoplasia characterized by remote disease to the liver, skin, or bone marrow. Stage IV-S patients have frequent spontaneous remissions and a 60% to 90% survival rate. Many investigators have recommended minimal or no therapeutic intervention; however, some patients do ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Stephenson SR,Cook BA,Mease AD,Ruymann FB

更新日期：1986-07-15 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：:Some variant of mastectomy remains the mainstay of the treatment of the primary tumor for the vast majority of the 110,000 new cases of cancer of the breast which will be treated this year in the United States. Reconstruction of the breast after ablation for cancer has become an integral part of the therapeutic regime...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Dinner MI,Dowden RV

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recurrence or mortality rate of axillary lymph node-negative invasive breast cancer has been associated with the tumor S-phase fraction, which is measured by DNA flow cytometry. Because many of the studies that established this association were performed using frozen, pulverized tumor specimens, this ass...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Merkel DE,Winchester DJ,Goldschmidt RA,August CZ,Wruck DM,Rademaker AW

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to determine if extrapulmonary small cell carcinomas (EPSCC) should be managed using protocols similar to those for small cell lung cancer (SCLC). METHODS:Treatment strategies, survival, patterns of failure, and prognostic factors for patients with EPSCC were analyzed retrospective...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brennan SM,Gregory DL,Stillie A,Herschtal A,Mac Manus M,Ball DL

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac metastases from malignant melanoma are frequent, usually asymptomatic and occur terminally. When responsible for symptoms, close evaluation of the patient is imperative for correct diagnosis and subsequent therapy. Surgical intervention where indicated in combination with chemotherapy and judicious use of irra...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Thomas JH,Panoussopoulos DG,Jewell WR,Pierce GE

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Desmoid tumors are mesenchymal nonmetastasizing neoplasms. Although rare in the general population, they are a common extracolonic manifestation of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Because of high tumor recurrence rates, surgery has been less than satisfactory in the treatment of desmoid tumors. In the ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hansmann A,Adolph C,Vogel T,Unger A,Moeslein G

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have shown that lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a phospholipidic chemical mediator, is relevant to the pathogenesis of ovarian carcinoma. Higher plasma levels of LPA have been reported in patients with ovarian carcinoma than in healthy patients, and LPA is known to activate ovarian carcinoma cel...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tokumura A,Tominaga K,Yasuda K,Kanzaki H,Kogure K,Fukuzawa K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence and staining patterns of Concanavalin A (Con A) binding histiocytes were studied in diagnostic lymph node specimens of 133 patients with Hodgkin's disease. Varying numbers of Con A binding histiocytes were present in all tumors. Two distinct cytoplasmic staining patterns of the Con A binding histiocytes...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ree HJ,Crowley JP

更新日期：1983-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) (also known as diffuse-type giant cell tumor) and tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TGCT) are rare, usually benign neoplasms that affect the synovium and tendon sheaths in young adults. These tumors are driven by the overexpression of colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF1). ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cassier PA,Gelderblom H,Stacchiotti S,Thomas D,Maki RG,Kroep JR,van der Graaf WT,Italiano A,Seddon B,Dômont J,Bompas E,Wagner AJ,Blay JY

更新日期：2012-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic disseminated candidiasis (CDC) is a serious complication of treatment in patients with acute leukemia. Although some general risk factors are known to predispose to systemic fungal infections, few studies have addressed the relevance of certain clinical and laboratory features in patients with CDC. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sallah S,Wan JY,Nguyen NP,Vos P,Sigounas G

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the prognosis results of a retrospective study of over 2000 cases of uterine cervix carcinoma totally treated at Institut Gustave-Roussy from 1950 to 1963. From the study of their long-term survival, an overall cure rate was estimated at 49% seven years after the start of primary treatment. A study ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pejovic MH,Wolff JP,Kramar A,Goldfarb E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 134 patients with small-cell lung cancer who had been seen at Henry Ford Hospital between 1972-1979 were reviewed with emphasis on brain metastasis. Brain metastasis developed in 28% of the patients; 21% had brain metastasis at the time of diagnosis and in 7% it developed later (de novo). In 9%, the chi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Doyle TJ

更新日期：1982-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of cancer resembles that of many other diseases in that multiple factors may be required. Because of this, the role or viruses in the etiology of human cancers is especially difficult to assess. When animal tumor systems were used as models, the roles of various predisposing characteristics in virus oncog...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rapp F,Reed CL

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although systemic therapy for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) continues to evolve, there are scant data to guide physicians and patients when symptoms develop. In this article, the authors report the frequency and durability of palliative procedures performed in the setting of MBC. METHODS:From July 2002 to ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Morrogh M,Miner TJ,Park A,Jenckes A,Gonen M,Seidman A,Morrow M,Jaques DP,King TA

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) is a new minimally invasive treatment for localized cancer. Minimally invasive surgical options require less resources, time, recovery, and cost, and often offer reduced morbidity and mortality, compared with more invasive methods. To be useful, image-guided, minimally i...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wood BJ,Ramkaransingh JR,Fojo T,Walther MM,Libutti SK

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CA 125 and steroid production is compared in a group of 48 women with ovarian epithelial carcinoma. The histologic types were I C (n = 20), II C (n = 5), III C (n = 11), or V (n = 12). The number of patients in Stage I was six; Stage II, 11; Stage III, 16; and Stage IV, 15. All patients were naturally or surgically po...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mählck CG,Grankvist K,Kjellgren O,Bäckström T

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent advances in the early detection of prostatic adenocarcinoma have stimulated interest in the development of techniques for determining metastatic potential. METHODS:One hundred cases of adenocarcinoma, including 66 biopsy and radical prostatectomy specimens; 20 biopsies alone; and 14 transurethral res...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ross JS,Nazeer T,Church K,Amato C,Figge H,Rifkin MD,Fisher HA

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment of localized prostate carcinoma (LPC) using radiotherapy (RT) can induce disturbances in a patient's quality of life (QOL) and urinary and intestinal function. Late symptoms and QOL were evaluated in a randomized trial between RT and deferred treatment (DT). METHODS:Quality of life was evaluated w...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fransson P,Damber JE,Tomic R,Modig H,Nyberg G,Widmark A

更新日期：2001-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The results and consequences of genetic testing in a family with familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (FMTC) are described. METHODS:In the screening of relatives, serum calcitonin is replaced by RET mutation analysis that was performed in families suspected of hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). I...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hansen HS,Torring H,Godballe C,Jäger AC,Nielsen FC

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pretherapy prediction of occult lymph node involvement and the avoidance of otherwise futile and potentially morbid definitive local therapy is paramount in men with newly diagnosed prostate carcinoma. To identify patients with prostate carcinoma who likely have lymph node involvement and would benefit f...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Polascik TJ,Manyak MJ,Haseman MK,Gurganus RT,Rogers B,Maguire RT,Partin AW

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) has uncertain malignant potential; biologic markers that will identify patients at risk for a poor clinical outcome have been sought actively. Amplification of the c-erbB-2 protooncogene has been correlated with poor prognosis in invasive mammary carcinoma, and immunohistochemical eval...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Porter PL,Garcia R,Moe R,Corwin DJ,Gown AM

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the recognition of ionizing radiation as a causal risk factor for a variety of solid tumors (including brain tumors), to date, such an association with pituitary adenoma (PA) has not been demonstrated. METHODS:To evaluate a possible association between past exposure to radiation and the occurrence o...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Juven Y,Sadetzki S

更新日期：2002-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanomas of the choroid, ciliary body, and iris of the eye are collectively known as uveal melanomas. These cancers represent 5% of all melanoma diagnoses in the United States, and their age-adjusted risk is 5 per 1 million population. These less frequent melanomas are dissimilar to their more common cutaneous melano...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chattopadhyay C,Kim DW,Gombos DS,Oba J,Qin Y,Williams MD,Esmaeli B,Grimm EA,Wargo JA,Woodman SE,Patel SP

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether fatherhood status affects prostate cancer risk remains controversial. Recently, it was proposed that childless men are at lower prostate cancer risk than men with children and that men with sons may be at lower risk than men with daughters only. METHODS:National population-based register data were u...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jørgensen KT,Pedersen BV,Johansen C,Frisch M

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:: Survival rates for gastrointestinal (GI) and bronchopulmonary (BP) neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have not altered significantly (5-year survival rate: GI NETs, 64.1%; BP NETs, 87%-89%) in 30 years (from 1973 to 2004). No effective or specific antineoplastic agents are available to date, although somatostati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Drozdov I,Kidd M,Gustafsson BI,Svejda B,Joseph R,Pfragner R,Modlin IM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic medullary carcinoma of the breast is unusual. This report describes five patients with medullary carcinoma who presented clinically with a breast cyst. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (NAB) was performed as part of the initial physical examination and the retrieved cyst fluid was examined cytologically. Four of t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Howell LP,Kline TS

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00