Bone scanning in patients with early breast carcinoma: should it be a routine staging procedure?

abstract：:Adrenal involvement in the course of a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) appears to occur relatively often, but only seven cases of NHL-induced adrenal insufficiency were found in a recent review of the literature. The authors report four cases of hypoadrenalism in 127 patients treated for NHL; the cases were staged and cl...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gamelin E,Beldent V,Rousselet MC,Rieux D,Rohmer V,Ifrah N,Boasson M,Bigorgne JC

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients with inoperable squamous carcinoma of the lung. 38 with extensive, and 12 with limited disease, were treated with BACON. Tumor regression greater than 50% was observed in 17 patients (45%) with extensive, and four patients (33%) with limited disease. Stabilization of disease for greater than or equal to...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Livingston RB,Fee WH,Einhorn LH,Burgess MA,Freireich EJ,Gottlieb JA,Farber MO

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was conducted to investigate the influence of therapeutic parameters on local control (LC) in the sphincter-conserving treatment of T2-T3 anal carcinoma. METHODS:From 1976 to 1993, 137 patients with anal carcinoma classified as T2 (85 patients) or T3 (52 patients) were treated curatively by radio...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Allal AS,Mermillod B,Roth AD,Marti MC,Kurtz JM

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this project was to develop the M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI), a brief measure of the severity and impact of cancer-related symptoms. METHODS:A list of symptoms was generated from symptom inventories and by panels of clinicians. Twenty-six symptoms and 6 interference items were rat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cleeland CS,Mendoza TR,Wang XS,Chou C,Harle MT,Morrissey M,Engstrom MC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), the hallmark Philadelphia chromosome is the marker of disease that can be detected by conventional metaphase cytogenetics, fluorescence in situ hybridization, or polymerase chain reaction. The current "gold standard" of treatment response is cytogenetic response. Cytoge...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Radich JP

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the importance of radiation dose fraction size in the treatment of malignant melanomas, the records of 48 patients (83 sites) treated at Tufts-New England Medical Center from 1971 to 1979 have been retrospectively reviewed. During this period, the dose fractionation schemes evolved from standard fraction siz...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Strauss A,Dritschilo A,Nathanson L,Piro AJ

更新日期：1981-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described with Gardner's syndrome manifested initially by an extra-abdominal desmoid which was resected. The case was complicated by metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon and recurrence of several large painful desmoid lesions. In view of the predilection of desmoids to occur in women in their childbeari...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kinzbrunner B,Ritter S,Domingo J,Rosenthal CJ

更新日期：1983-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer specimens from 600 women were assayed for estrogen receptors (ER) using an immunocytochemical assay (ICA) employing the monoclonal antiestrophilin antibody H222 Sp gamma. Results showed significant correlation with biochemical ER determinations as well as with tumor grade and menopausal status. In 449 ca...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pertschuk LP,Kim DS,Nayer K,Feldman JG,Eisenberg KB,Carter AC,Rong ZT,Thelmo WL,Fleisher J,Greene GL

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attrition is common among supportive care/palliative oncology clinical trials. However, to the authors' knowledge, few studies to date have documented the reasons and predictors for dropout. In the current study, the authors' objective was to determine the rate, reasons, and factors associated with attrition...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hui D,Glitza I,Chisholm G,Yennu S,Bruera E

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tobacco assessment and cessation support are not routinely included in cancer care. An automated tobacco assessment and cessation program was developed to increase the delivery of tobacco cessation support for cancer patients. METHODS:A structured tobacco assessment was incorporated into the electronic heal...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Warren GW,Marshall JR,Cummings KM,Zevon MA,Reed R,Hysert P,Mahoney MC,Hyland AJ,Nwogu C,Demmy T,Dexter E,Kelly M,O'Connor RJ,Houstin T,Jenkins D,Germain P,Singh AK,Epstein J,Dobson Amato KA,Reid ME

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible implications of heterogeneity among the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas for bone marrow purging using complement-fixing monoclonal antibodies to lymphoma-associated antigens, a panel of large cell lymphoma cell lines of diverse phenotypes was treated with monoclonal antibodies DLC-48 and LN-1. An a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Winter JN,Marder RJ,Mankad B,Epstein AL

更新日期：1988-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective management of symptoms in cancer patients requires early intervention. This study assessed whether the timing of referral to the Supportive Care Center (SCC) and symptom burden outcome varied by race or ethnicity in lung cancer patients who had been seen at a tertiary cancer center. METHODS:Non-Hi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Reyes-Gibby CC,Anderson KO,Shete S,Bruera E,Yennurajalingam S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previously, the patient-reported Total Illness Burden Index for Prostate Cancer (TIBI-CaP) questionnaire and/or the physician-reported Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) have provided assessments of competing comorbidity during treatment decisions for patients with prostate cancer. In the current study, the au...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Liss MA,Billimek J,Osann K,Cho J,Moskowitz R,Kaplan A,Szabo RJ,Kaplan SH,Greenfield S,Dash A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Total body irradiation (TBI) is commonly used with autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for treatment of hematologic malignancies. Pulmonary complications of TBI can cause long-term morbidity and mortality. The authors have compared the pulmonary toxicity and efficacy of two different TBI fractionati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gopal R,Ha CS,Tucker SL,Khouri IF,Giralt SA,Gajewski JL,Andersson BS,Cox JD,Champlin RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy of advanced stages of large bowel cancer has until recently made little progress since the introduction of 5-FU 16 years ago. While survival is improved for patients who respond, 5-FU alone has made little impact on life span of the overall population of patients. Mitomycin-C and the chloroethyl nitrosour...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schein PS,Kisner D,MacDonald JS

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current classification of cutaneous malignant lymphomas (ML) into low-grade and high-grade lymphomas was found to be of limited reproducibility and permitted only a rough prediction about outcome. With this in mind, the relationship between nuclear DNA content and both prognosis and histologic grading according to...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vogt T,Stolz W,Braun-Falco O,Kaudewitz P,Eckert F,Abmayr W,Dummer R,Burg G

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty-six evaluable patients with metastatic breast cancer were treated with vincristine, Adriamycin and cyclophosphamide alternating at fixed intervals with 5-FU and methotrexate. Immunotherapy with BCG or MER-BCG was administered to all patients in two consecutive treatment programs. Overall objective re...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Blumenschein GR,Hortobagyi GN,Richman SP,Gutterman JU,Tashima CK,Buzdar AU,Burgess MA,Livingston RB,Hersh EM

更新日期：1980-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a novel immunoregulatory cytokine that was known previously as interferon-gamma-inducing factor. IL-18 levels can be used as a serum indicator for monitoring the clinical course of patients with hematologic malignancies and gastric carcinoma. Nitric oxide (NO) is a pleiotropic molec...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Günel N,Coşkun U,Sancak B,Günel U,Hasdemir O,Bozkurt S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old man with erythroleukemia was found to have circulating micromegakaryocytes . Megakaryocytic features were defined by morphologic and cytochemical studies using light and electron microscopy with platelet-megakaryocyte peroxidase staining. This appears to be the first reported instance of erythroleukemia ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yamauchi K,Miyauchi J,Nagao T

更新日期：1984-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:English and Chinese are two of the most widely used primary languages in the world. Patients in many cancer centers have a variety of ethnic backgrounds and primary languages. The comparability of version 4 of the English and Chinese versions of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) an...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cheung YB,Thumboo J,Goh C,Khoo KS,Che W,Wee J

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metastatic adenocarcinoma in the liver with an unidentified primary tumor site is a common clinical problem. Pathologists often are asked to identify the primary tumor site. The histologic picture itself usually is not helpful, because the histology may be similar in the metastases of tumors with different p...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tot T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unusual genetic disorder epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica has been reported in several patients in whom the chronic cutaneous scars led to the development of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. However, only one of these previously reported cases involved the autosomal dominant form of the disease; the remainder o...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schwartz RA,Birnkrant AP,Rubenstein DJ,Kim U,Burgess GH,Stoll HL Jr,Chai SW,Southwick GJ,Milgrom H

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since endoscopic treatment was first evaluated and established as a treatment for patients with early stage gastric carcinoma, metachronous disease recurrence at other sites in the stomach after endoscopic treatment has become a major problem. METHODS:A retrospective case-control study was conducted on 10 p...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kawamura A,Adachi K,Ishihara S,Katsube T,Takashima T,Yuki M,Amano K,Fukuda R,Yamashita Y,Kinoshita Y

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with schistosomiasis of the urinary bladder (SB) associated with carcinoma of the bladder (SCB) or carcinoma of the prostate (SCP) have a variety of immunologic abnormalities, including the presence of HLA-DR+ and interleukin-2 receptor-positive (IL-2R+) T-lymphocytes in circulating blood. This study demonstr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Raziuddin S,Shetty S,Ibrahim A,Patil K

更新日期：1990-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with renal masses are at risk for having or developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 3 (glomerular filtration rate [GFR] <60 mL per minute/1.73 m2). In this study, the authors investigated whether the Screening for Occult Renal Disease (SCORED) model could identify patients with renal masses wh...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lucas SM,Nuss G,Stern J,Lotan Y,Sagalowsky AI,Cadeddu JA,Raj GV

更新日期：2008-11-15 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：:Currently attention is focused on the testicle as a site of leukemic relapse. Leukemic involvement of the ovary has been described in several autopsy series with an incidence of 11-50% in patients with bone marrow relapse, but has rarely been reported during the clinical course of leukemia. In this report, four girls ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cecalupo AJ,Frankel LS,Sullivan MP

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survival trends provide a measure of improvement in detection and treatment over time. In the current study, updated childhood and adolescent cancer survival statistics are presented, overall and among demographic subgroups, including Hispanics, for whom to the authors' knowledge national rates have not been...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Linabery AM,Ross JA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer costs should be discussed by patients and providers, but information is not readily available. Results from recently published studies (in the last 5 years) on direct and indirect cancer costs may help guide these discussions. METHODS:The authors reviewed studies published between 2013 and 2017 that ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pisu M,Henrikson NB,Banegas MP,Yabroff KR

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study tested the hypothesis that the clinical outcome of patients with localized esophageal carcinoma after preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CTRT) depends on histology. METHODS:The authors stratified patients by adenocarcinoma (ACA) or squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and compared the overall surviv...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rohatgi PR,Swisher SG,Correa AM,Wu TT,Liao Z,Komaki R,Walsh GL,Vaporciyan AA,Rice DC,Bresalier RS,Roth JA,Ajani JA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00