Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and paraparesis: remission with chemotherapy. A case report.

abstract：:Extracardiac rhabdomyomas are rare benign neoplasms that in the past have been divided by histologic criteria into adult and fetal types. In this series, 15 previously unpublished cases are presented and analyzed in combination with 51 acceptable cases from the literature. The adult type of rhabdomyoma occurs almost e...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Di Sant'Agnese PA,Knowles DM 2nd

更新日期：1980-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to discover molecular biomarkers associated with the recurrence of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). METHODS:The authors retrospectively analyzed the hypermethylation status of 11 genes using methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the expression of ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lee E,Lee BB,Ko E,Kim Y,Han J,Shim YM,Park J,Kim DH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of angiosarcoma of the breast with a fatal outcome is reported, and the world literature on this rare type of breast tumor is reviewed. Familiarity with the clinical and pathologic features of this entity is essential in avoiding underdiagnosis and delay of definitive treatment. The three-year survival rate of ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chen KT,Kirkegaard DD,Bocian JJ

更新日期：1980-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:C57B1/6 mice were given intravenous tumor cells on day O. Mice were then given either a brief exposure to halothane anesthesia or given halothane and then underwent a hind limb amputation. Immune testing was done at varying time intervals and correlated with the development of artificial pulmonary metastases. The effe...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lundy J,Lovett EJ 3rd,Hamilton S,Conran P

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have reported additional cancers associated with BRCA mutations; however, the type, magnitude of risk, and sex differences remain to be clarified. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of cancers other than breast and ovarian cancer in known mutation carriers. METHODS:An i...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mersch J,Jackson MA,Park M,Nebgen D,Peterson SK,Singletary C,Arun BK,Litton JK

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are now available from two randomized trials showing that adjuvant irradiation of the internal mammary and supraclavicular nodes following a radical or modified radical mastectomy results in increased survival rates. A retrospective analysis of 1111 patients treated at M. D. Anderson Hospital with radical mastect...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Montague ED,Fletcher GH

更新日期：1980-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured des-gamma-carboxyglutamic acid prothrombin (protein induced by vitamin K absence or antagonist-Factor II: [PIVKA-II]) in plasmas of normal subjects, patients with thrombotic disease, those with hepatic disease including hepatocellular carcinoma, and those with carcinoma of other tissues, and compared the r...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Deyashiki Y,Nishioka Y,Takahashi K,Kosaka Y,Suzuki K

更新日期：1989-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinomas of the pancreas with giant cells are not rare, but those containing osteoclast-like tumor cells are quite unusual. This report documents a pancreatic neoplasm comprising both easily recognizable well-differentiated adenocarcinoma and osteoclast-like tumor. The literature on the "osteoclastoma" of the pancre...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Trepeta RW,Mathur B,Lagin S,LiVolsi VA

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Allelic deletions are frequent genetic alterations in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:To evaluate the allelic losses on chromosome 8p in HCC patients and define their clinicopathologic significance, we performed high-density allelotyping on 8p in 60 patients with HCC and analyzed the c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chan KL,Lee JM,Guan XY,Fan ST,Ng IO

更新日期：2002-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Notwithstanding some controversy regarding the benefits of screening mammography, it is generally assumed that the effects are the same for women of all race/ethnic groups. Yet evidence for its efficacy from clinical trial studies comes primarily from the study of white women. It is likely that mammography i...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jones BA,Patterson EA,Calvocoressi L

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-nine patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy for carcinoma of the breast were evaluated for frequency and amount of weight gained during treatment. No difference with respect to age, menopausal status, estrogen receptor status, nodal status, biochemical parameters, or treatment regimen (CMF versus CMFVP) we...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Huntington MO

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for the early detection of cancer offers the potential of increasing the number of patients whose cancer is diagnosed in a localized, curable stage. The operation of an efficient and effective early detection program requires that a number of conditions be fulfilled, some of which are difficult to attain. Fi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Miller DG

更新日期：1981-03-01 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：:Neopterin, a pyrazinopyrimidine compound, is a marker of activation of cell-mediated immunity. Urinary neopterin concentrations were measured in a total of 44 patients with uterine sarcomas. Pretherapeutic neopterin excretions were elevated in 78% (14/18). The mean neopterin concentration of patients with sarcomas was...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fuith LC,Fuchs D,Hausen A,Hetzel H,Reibnegger G,Werner ER,Wachter H

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 5-year survival rate of patients with submucosal (sm) esophageal carcinoma continues to be much worse than that with intramucosal (m) lesions. The reasons are unclear, but matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and membrane type matrix metalloproteinases (MT-MMPs) are known to be involved in degradation of ext...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ohashi K,Nemoto T,Nakamura K,Nemori R

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flow cytometric analysis of trophoblastic tissue has shown that most partial hydatidiform moles (PMs) are triploid, whereas most complete moles (CMs) are diploid or tetraploid. Ploidy analysis can support a diagnosis of CM or PM. However, in some cases, a precise diagnosis cannot be rendered. METHODS:This s...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bocklage TJ,Smith HO,Bartow SA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients who have aggressive, refractory or recurrent non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) that are refractory to first-line anthracycline-containing regimens (ACRs) have a dismal outcome. Achieving complete remission (CR) is essential for a favorable outcome. To improve the CR rate in these patients, the authors de...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Todeschini G,Tecchio C,Pasini F,Benedetti F,Cantini M,Crippa C,Draisci M,Pizzolo G

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progress in the treatment of pancreatic cancer in the past several decades has been very modest. Several new agents with activity against this disease have been identified. Of these, gemcitabine appears to be the most promising when used in combination with other drugs. Gemcitabine and cisplatin combinations have been...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Philip PA

更新日期：2002-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with t(6;11)(q27;q23) is a well established but rare entity, and few studies have reported the full clinical, hematologic, and outcome data of patients with this disease. METHODS:To characterize the features of t(6;11) AML, the authors searched the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (C...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Blum W,Mrózek K,Ruppert AS,Carroll AJ,Rao KW,Pettenati MJ,Anastasi J,Larson RA,Bloomfield CD

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The regulation of parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH-rP) mRNA levels and immunoreactive (ir)PTH-rP formation by peptide growth factors, particularly transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and epidermal growth factor (EGF), in squamous cell carcinomas of gynecologic origin is largely unknown. METHO...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tait DL,MacDonald PC,Casey ML

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fulvestrant (ICI 182,780) is a new type of estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist that down-regulates the ER and has no known agonist effects. The authors report the prospectively planned combined analysis of data from 2 Phase III trials comparing fulvestrant 250 mg monthly (n=428) and anastrozole 1 mg daily (n=4...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Robertson JF,Osborne CK,Howell A,Jones SE,Mauriac L,Ellis M,Kleeberg UR,Come SE,Vergote I,Gertler S,Buzdar A,Webster A,Morris C

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven hundred ninety-five patients were adenocarcinomas of the proximal colon were reviewed. Two hundred forty-five patients presented with disseminated disease at the time of diagnosis, and were analyzed to identify mechanisms and sites of disease spread. Five hundred fifty patients underwent radical resection, and w...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Russell AH,Tong D,Dawson LE,Wisbeck W

更新日期：1984-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent clinical studies have demonstrated that tumor angiogenesis is a potent prognostic indicator for breast cancer patients. The quantitation of endothelial growth factors is thought to be useful to assess angiogenic phenotype in the tumor. Among the many new endothelial growth factors, vascular endothelia...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Toi M,Kondo S,Suzuki H,Yamamoto Y,Inada K,Imazawa T,Taniguchi T,Tominaga T

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiogenesis in individuals with various solid tumors has provided useful information on tumor progression and prognosis, and many examples of mast cell (MC) accumulation coupled with angiogenesis can be found in the literature. METHODS:Utilizing monoclonal antibodies for tryptase that are specific markers ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Takanami I,Takeuchi K,Naruke M

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-specific DNA sequences or unique sequences have been found in a number of human cancer cells including gliomas but not in equivalent normal cells. In a continuing effort to further elucidate the nature of these sequences, thermal analysis using the hydroxyapatite technique was carried out on the various grades o...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cuatico W

更新日期：1980-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The combination of paclitaxel with cisplatin or carboplatin has become the preferred chemotherapy regimen in the treatment of epithelial ovarian carcinoma. Anthracyclines also have activity in this disease. We conducted a Phase II study by using the combination of paclitaxel, cisplatin, and epirubicin for th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Papadimitriou CA,Moulopoulos LA,Vlahos G,Voulgaris Z,Kiosses E,Georgoulias N,Gika D,Diakomanolis E,Michalas S,Dimopoulos MA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical dose of 3-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-1-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitro- sourea hydrochloride (ACNU) is limited by the bone marrow suppression it produces. The authors investigated whether bone marrow transplantation (BMT) associated with a high dose of ACNU could alleviate marrow toxicity ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Soma M,Shoin K,Yamashita J

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant thymoma is a relatively rare condition and a review of the literature reveals approximately 100 reported cases. Only a small percentage of these have been treated with megavoltage radiation therapy; therefore, it is difficult to find the necessary information to establish a proper time-dose relationship for ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Marks RD Jr,Wallace KM,Pettit HS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal cortical carcinoma is an uncommon neoplasm in children. Only a handful of congenital adrenal cortical carcinoma cases have been described. A newborn who had metastatic adrenal cortical carcinoma (skin metastases and cerebral lesions) is described. This patient underwent surgical resection of the right adrenal ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Saracco S,Abramowsky C,Taylor S,Silverman RA,Berman BW

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are currently no systemic treatments for stage IV melanoma, which have been proven in randomized trials to benefit overall survival (OS). Lenalidomide has efficacy against melanoma in animal models and safety in phase 1 trials. The authors reported the results of a phase 2/3 study comparing the safety ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Glaspy J,Atkins MB,Richards JM,Agarwala SS,O'Day S,Knight RD,Jungnelius JU,Bedikian AY

更新日期：2009-11-15 00:00:00