Ganglioneuroma presenting with differentiated skeletal metastases. Report of a case.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been rising rapidly in the United States. California is an ethnically diverse state with the largest number of incident HCC cases in the country. Characterizing HCC disparities in California may inform priorities for HCC prevention. METHODS:By using data f...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yang B,Liu JB,So SK,Han SS,Wang SS,Hertz A,Shariff-Marco S,Lin Gomez S,Rosenberg PS,Nguyen MH,Hsing AW

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (LPHL) is a rare, CD20-positive, good prognostic lymphoma in children. Patients with early-stage LPHL who underwent successful surgical lymph node resection alone have been reported. To clarify the optimum treatment strategy in children, European study groups were aske...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mauz-Körholz C,Gorde-Grosjean S,Hasenclever D,Shankar A,Dörffel W,Wallace WH,Schellong G,Robert A,Körholz D,Oberlin O,Hall GW,Landman-Parker J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1-year-old infant with von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis was seen because of increasing clitoral enlargement over a 7-month period. The mother, who also had neurofibromatosis, was treated 2 years beforehand for an acoustic neuroma. The child was treated by radical clitorectomy. Pathologic examination revealed m...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Thomas WJ,Bevan HE,Hooper DG,Downey EJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has demonstrated that many lung cancer survivors report difficulties with symptom control and experience a poor quality of life (QOL). Although recent studies have suggested a relationship of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several cytokine genes with cancer susceptibility and pro...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rausch SM,Clark MM,Patten C,Liu H,Felten S,Li Y,Sloan J,Yang P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important area in which cancer care and bioethics intersect is in the care of the dying. It is in the shift toward according more control to patients, more choice in the setting in which death will come, and in the willingness to take palliative care and comfort care seriously that bioethics has most usefully...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Caplan AL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect data supporting a preexisting immunologic impairment in patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) have been presented in recent years. These immunologic defects are supposed to be related to genetic and/or environmental factors. In this study, 65 first-degree relatives and 12 spouses of 21 consecutive patients wit...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Merk K,Björkholm M,Tullgren O,Mellstedt H,Holm G

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proton therapy has been a hotly contested issue in both scientific publications and lay media. Proponents cite the modality's ability to spare healthy tissue, but critics claim the benefit gained from its use does not validate its cost compared with photon therapy. The objective of this study was to evaluate...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mailhot Vega RB,Kim J,Bussière M,Hattangadi J,Hollander A,Michalski J,Tarbell NJ,Yock T,MacDonald SM

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the characteristic histopathologic appearance of alveolar soft-part sarcoma (ASPS), its histogenesis remains unclear, and cytogenetic analysis of ASPS is limited to eight cases so far because of the extreme rarity of this disease. METHODS:The authors document a cytogenetic study of a primary case of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Joyama S,Ueda T,Shimizu K,Kudawara I,Mano M,Funai H,Takemura K,Yoshikawa H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doubling times were estimated for 15 breast carcinomas in 13 patients, and were found to be between 42 and 397 days with the average at 211 days. The mean lead time at mean growth rate from the average size of 44 preclinical to the average size of 118 clinical tumors was estimated to be 3 years. This period may be con...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lundgren B

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncologic therapy demands technologic sophistication to meet the clinical challenges of proper drug administration for chemotherapeutic agents, pain management, antibiotics, hydration, antiemetic drugs, and total parenteral nutrition. Drug administration systems for patient-controlled analgesia include benefits of imp...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Shaw HL

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fas (CD95/APO-1) and Fas ligand (FasL) play key roles in immunologic homeostasis and immune privilege and may regulate normal cell turnover. Earlier studies had suggested that FasL-positive pancreatic carcinoma cell lines can induce apoptosis in T cells, thereby evading host immune surveillance. In the curre...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bernstorff WV,Glickman JN,Odze RD,Farraye FA,Joo HG,Goedegebuure PS,Eberlein TJ

更新日期：2002-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of resistance to purine analogs defines a poor-risk subset of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Although in recent years chemoimmunotherapeutic combinations such as fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab have induced response rates of 95% in previously untreated patients and incre...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tsimberidou AM,Keating MJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adult "translocation" renal cell carcinoma (RCC), bearing transcription factor E3 (TFE3) gene fusions at Xp11.2, is a recently recognized, unique entity for which prognosis and therapy remain poorly understood. In the current study, the authors investigated the effect of vascular endothelial growth factor (V...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Choueiri TK,Lim ZD,Hirsch MS,Tamboli P,Jonasch E,McDermott DF,Dal Cin P,Corn P,Vaishampayan U,Heng DY,Tannir NM

更新日期：2010-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medulloblastomas are small cell embryonal tumors of the cerebellum found predominantly in children, only slightly more than half of whom survive. Predicting favorable outcome has been difficult, and improved stratification clearly is required to avoid both undertreatment and overtreatment. Patients currently...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Eberhart CG,Kepner JL,Goldthwaite PT,Kun LE,Duffner PK,Friedman HS,Strother DR,Burger PC

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the United States, incidence rates for malignant tumors of the uterine corpus are lower among blacks than among whites, whereas mortality rates are higher among blacks. Reasons for the higher level of mortality among blacks have been debated. METHODS:Using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and En...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sherman ME,Devesa SS

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has previously been shown that heparanase-1 (HPR1), an endoglycosidase, is up-regulated in pancreatic carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to test whether serum HPR1 levels in pancreatic carcinoma patients are elevated, and whether higher serum HPR1 levels are associated with a shortened survival. ME...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Quiros RM,Rao G,Plate J,Harris JE,Brunn GJ,Platt JL,Gattuso P,Prinz RA,Xu X

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of an ulcero-proliferative lesion of putative histiocytic origin, arising in the oral cavity, are described. This lesion, which has not been defined previously, is easily confused histologically with a malignant process of lymphoid origin, thereby representing a pseudolymphomatous proliferation. Light micro...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Eversole LR,Leider AS,Jacobsen PL,Kidd PM

更新日期：1985-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess whether chemosensitivity in metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is influenced by the histologic grade of the tumor, the authors retrospectively analyzed tumor responses to doxorubicin-based chemotherapy in four prospective studies conducted at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, between 1976 and 1984. A ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： van Haelst-Pisani CM,Buckner JC,Reiman HM,Schaid DJ,Edmonson JH,Hahn RG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelioid sarcoma is an uncommon tumor characterized by its appearance in the distal extremities (especially the forearm, wrist, and ankle), the tendency to recur locally, and high probability of spread to regional lymph nodes. Most patients have been treated surgically, and the potential role of radiation therapy a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Shimm DS,Suit HD

更新日期：1983-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Apart from choriocarcinoma, involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) by gynecologic malignancy is rare. A 10-year retrospective review at the University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle, WA) and Swedish Hospital and Medical Center Tumor Registry (Seattle, WA) identified 14 patients with cerebral metastases...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： LeRoux PD,Berger MS,Elliott JP,Tamimi HK

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method of arterially administering an oily anticancer agent was successfully established for the selective targeting of metastatic lymph nodes. A high molecular weight anticancer agent, a conjugate of copolymer (styrene maleic acid) to neocarzinostatin (SMANCS) was prepared in our laboratory and dissolved in a l...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ohtsuka N,Konno T,Miyauchi Y,Maeda H

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of the serum level of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) as an indicator of recurrent colorectal carcinoma has been accepted, and the use of serial CEA levels to monitor postoperative chemotherapy has been suggested, However, elevated CEA levels may be associated with nonneoplastic conditions, of which the most ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Savrin RA,Martin EW Jr

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low frequency epithelial cells in bone marrow from colorectal carcinoma patients are associated with an increased risk of recurrence and decreased survival. Current immunohistochemical approaches to detect epithelial cells in bone marrow aspirates rely on antibodies against cytokeratin 18 (CK18). The predict...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Litle VR,Warren RS,Moore D 2nd,Pallavicini MG

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although breast-conserving therapy (tumor excision, axillary node dissection, and postoperative radiation) for women with breast cancer yields survival and local recurrence rates comparable with those of modified radical mastectomy, studies suggest that postoperative radiation leads to capsular contractures ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Guenther JM,Tokita KM,Giuliano AE

更新日期：1994-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve cases of ovarian adenocarcinoma were studied for alterations in proto-oncogenes, and a unique pattern of altered ras proto-oncogenes was observed. Amplification of ras-Ki was found in three of seven ovarian tumors and amplification of ras-Ha in one of 12. In contrast, ras-Ha amplification was not found in any o...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zhou DJ,Gonzalez-Cadavid N,Ahuja H,Battifora H,Moore GE,Cline MJ

更新日期：1988-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among patients with core-needle biopsy (CNB)-diagnosed ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), the guidelines for the selection of patients to undergo sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy are not well defined, and many patients with no invasion undergo an unnecessary SLN biopsy. The objective of this study was to ident...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Huo L,Sneige N,Hunt KK,Albarracin CT,Lopez A,Resetkova E

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This survey of the incidence of melanoma in New South Wales, Australia, from 1970 to 1976 revealed a doubling of incidence in the seven year period. The most marked rise occurred in 1972. A marked preponderance of leg melanoma in women and trunk melanoma in men was noted. The incidence of melanoma in men continues to ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： McCarthy WH,Black AL,Milton GW

更新日期：1980-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer of the pancreas is a highly malignant illness with a very poor prognosis. Unfortunately, there has been little in the way of improvement in prognosis over the past 20 years. It is feared by patients because of its reputation as a deadly and often painful disease. Given these realities, it is not surpr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Passik SD,Breitbart WS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with metachronous multiple colorectal carcinomas have been reported to have a higher frequency of a family history of colorectal carcinoma, associated colorectal adenomas, and extracolonic malignancies. These clinicopathologic factors also are considered to be related to the development of metachron...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Masubuchi S,Konishi F,Togashi K,Okamoto T,Senba S,Shitoh K,Kashiwagi H,Kanazawa K,Tsukamoto T

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report of a gastric perforation secondary to a metastasis from a primary squamous cell carcinoma of the lung in a 70-year-old white man who was being treated with cimetidine for a presumed benign gastric ulcer. The literature concerning bronchogenic carcinoma metastasizing to the stomach and small bowel is r...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fletcher MS

更新日期：1980-10-15 00:00:00