Prognostic analysis of malignant pleural and peritoneal effusions.

abstract：:The clinical features and laboratory results of 63 patients with or at risk for AIDS with lymphoid neoplasias seen from November 1980 through November 1986 are reviewed. Forty-three had systemic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), nine had primary large cell lymphomas of the brain, 11 had Hodgkin's disease (HD), and one had...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lowenthal DA,Straus DJ,Campbell SW,Gold JW,Clarkson BD,Koziner B

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 (IL2) is essential for the expansion of antigen-triggered lymphocytes and cytotoxic T-cells, processes necessary for tumor control that are frequently depressed in malignancy. The authors measured certain aspects of IL2 function in cancer patients and controls and correlated the findings with the general...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wanebo HJ,Pace R,Hargett S,Katz D,Sando J

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty percent of all cancer occurs in persons aged > or =65 years. This article provides an overview of aspects of the burden of cancer in the elderly, highlighting certain demographic and epidemiologic data. It served as a frame of reference for participants in the Oncology Geriatric Education Retreat, San Juan, Puer...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yancik R

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-dose methotrexate (MTX) is an important component of current protocols for the treatment of osteosarcoma. Although MTX uptake proceeds primarily through the reduced folate carrier (RFC) protein and efflux occurs via multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1), RFC protein expression in osteosarcoma remains un...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ifergan I,Meller I,Issakov J,Assaraf YG

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The inherited, low-penetrance arginine-to-histidine substitution at codon 337 (R337H) of the tumor protein 53 gene (TP53) is clustered in southeast Brazil (estimated frequency, 0.3%). Although its tumorigenic effect initially appeared to be tissue-specific, recent evidence suggests its association with a bro...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Seidinger AL,Mastellaro MJ,Paschoal Fortes F,Godoy Assumpção J,Aparecida Cardinalli I,Aparecida Ganazza M,Correa Ribeiro R,Brandalise SR,Dos Santos Aguiar S,Yunes JA

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malignant lymphomas and solid tumors that mimic or are associated with epithelioid granulomas are widely recognized in surgical pathology, but have received little attention in the cytopathology literature. In this study the authors present their experience with six such cases in which the presence of granul...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Khurana KK,Stanley MW,Powers CN,Pitman MB

更新日期：1998-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study is to examine changes over time in survival for African American (AA) and white women diagnosed with cervical cancer (CC). METHODS:Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program data from 1985 to 2009 were used for this analysis. Racial differences in survival were eval...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rauh-Hain JA,Clemmer JT,Bradford LS,Clark RM,Growdon WB,Goodman A,Boruta DM 2nd,Schorge JO,del Carmen MG

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influence of HER-2/neu on prognosis of breast cancer is controversial. The authors investigated by immunohistochemistry in node-positive disease the influence of the pattern of immunostaining (membranous or cytoplasmic) on outcome and the prognostic significance of this marker in patients receiving or no...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Têtu B,Brisson J

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clofarabine is a new-generation nucleoside analog that has been synthesized to combine the most favorable pharmacokinetic properties of its congeners fludarabine and cladribine. In addition to inhibition of DNA polymerases and DNA synthesis, clofarabine acts as a strong inhibitor of ribonucleotide reductase (RnR), an ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Faderl S,Gandhi V,Keating MJ,Jeha S,Plunkett W,Kantarjian HM

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:LAMP3 is a newly described hypoxia regulated gene of potential interest in hypoxia-induced therapy resistance and metastasis. The prognostic value of LAMP3 in breast cancer was investigated. METHODS:Expression levels of LAMP3 in breast cancer cell lines and patient tissues were determined by real-time polym...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nagelkerke A,Mujcic H,Bussink J,Wouters BG,van Laarhoven HW,Sweep FC,Span PN

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An astroblastoma in the cerebrum was investigated with the electron microscope. A distinctive feature of the tumor was the radial arrangement of astrocytic cells around the blood vessels. The blood vessels in the tumor commonly exhibited fenestrated endothelial cells. The endothelium was generally surrounded by lamell...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kubota T,Hirano A,Sato K,Yamamoto S

更新日期：1985-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For the moment, there is uncertainty about the usefulness of early treatment of localized prostate carcinoma, uncertainty about whether some patients with early cancer can be managed expectantly, and uncertainty about how such patients might be recognized. METHODS:The authors studied serial values of prosta...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Vollmer RT,Egawa S,Kuwao S,Baba S

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of assay for estrogen receptor (ER) in the tumor cytosol and thymidine labeling indices (TLI) of 63 primary invasive carcinomas of the breast were analyzed. The ER assay was performed by using dextran-charcoal to adsorb unbound tritiated estradiol-17beta (E2) in cytosol. The TLI was measured as the number ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Meyer JS,Rao BR,Stevens SC,White WL

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The head and neck region is one of the most common locations of rhabdomyosarcoma. Salivary gland involvement is usually secondary to advanced disease, and presentation as a primary salivary gland tumor is very rare. METHODS:Three cases of rhabdomyosarcoma presenting as parotid masses, in 2 boys (ages 3 and ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Salomão DR,Sigman JD,Greenebaum E,Cohen MB

更新日期：1998-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred twenty-four patients with seminoma (119 primary testis, five primary extragonadal) were treated between 1968 and 1984 at the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy. Fifty-seven of the 124 patients were treated with irradiation to the mediastinum as well as to an infradiaphragmatic field. One patient received s...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lederman GS,Sheldon TA,Chaffey JT,Herman TS,Gelman RS,Coleman CN

更新日期：1987-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carcinoid tumors are unusual and most reports are anecdotal or limited in number. A series of 2837 cases was published in 1975. No recent large series is available. METHODS:The authors evaluated 5468 cases identified by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer In...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Modlin IM,Sandor A

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of mitoxantrone in combination with vinblastine was assessed in 156 patients with metastatic breast cancer who had been treated previously with one or multiple chemotherapeutic regimens. Mitoxantrone was given by random assignment, either as a 10 mg/m2 single intravenous dose or in five consecutive daily ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fraschini G,Yap HY,Mann G,Buzdar AU,Blumenschein GR,Hortobagyi GN

更新日期：1987-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two cases of breast tumor with infiltrating lobular carcinoma were studied. Thirteen showed the classic single-file pattern as a sole component, and 6 as a predominant pattern; the less common confluent pattern was found in 3 instances as a predominant component. Mucin secretion was evidenced in 59% of the prim...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Van Bogaert LJ,Maldague P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new approach using anthropometric, radiographic, biochemical, and ultrasonic methods allowed partition of body weight into fat, fat-free mass, skeletal muscle, and volume of heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, and tumor. These methods were used to evaluate body composition longitudinally in a pilot group of nine cancer p...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Heymsfield SB,McManus CB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on patients with gallbladder cancer listed in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute were reviewed. Between 1977 and 1986, 3038 patients were recorded in the Program. Histologic grade, histologic type, stage of disease, and vascular invasion were correlated...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Henson DE,Albores-Saavedra J,Corle D

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin's disease (HD) was diagnosed in 24 patients who were either seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (21) or members of a high-risk group (three), but had not developed acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Clinical presentation of the disease was characterized by constitutional symptoms in al...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ree HJ,Strauchen JA,Khan AA,Gold JE,Crowley JP,Kahn H,Zalusky R

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular DNA content was determined in a consecutive series of 26 classical and two paraosteal osteosarcomas by means of single cell cytophotometry. All classical osteosarcomas regardless of histologic type (osteo-, chondro-, fibroblastic) or grade were found to be hyperploid (abnormally increased DNA content) whi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kreicbergs A,Broström LA,Cewrien G,Einhorn S

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous morphologic features have been described in bone marrow and peripheral blood in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). We draw attention to a high incidence of a subtle morphologic feature, internuclear bridging (INB), not previously recognized as a morphologic feature in MDS. The occurrence of INB in MDS suggests a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Head DR,Kopecky K,Bennett JM,Grenier K,Morrison FS,Miller KB,Grever MR

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old man with metastatic islet cell carcinoma was treated with streptozotocin and achieved excellent tumor regression. Sixty-seven grams of streptozotocin were given over 28 months. After completion of streptozotocin therapy, the patient had progressive leukopenia. Thirteen months after discontinuation of str...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Green MR,Anderson RE

更新日期：1981-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the United States, detection of squamous carcinoma in situ (CIS) by screening has led to reduced rates for invasive squamous carcinoma and lower mortality. Adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) rates also have increased, but invasive cervical adenocarcinoma rates have not declined similarly. To make inferences abo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sherman ME,Wang SS,Carreon J,Devesa SS

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is one of the most responsive of the common solid tumors when systemic therapy is indicated in the treatment of locally advanced or disseminated cancer. Many single agents have been useful in inducing remission in mammary carcinoma, but in recent years various drug combinations have been developed that a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bisel HF

更新日期：1980-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma of the gingiva and skin developed in an HIV-negative renal transplant patient while he was receiving cyclosporine therapy. The Kaposi's sarcoma developed shortly after the patient had an acute infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV). Electron microscopy of the tumor's established cell line showed two typ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Siegal B,Levinton-Kriss S,Schiffer A,Sayar J,Engelberg I,Vonsover A,Ramon Y,Rubinstein E

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myoepithelial carcinoma, also know as malignant myoepithelioma, is rare in the salivary gland, and its cytologic features have rarely been reported. DESIGN:Four cases of myoepithelial carcinoma with cytology were retrieved from the archives of the Pathology Departments of two academic institutes. In three c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chhieng DC,Paulino AF

更新日期：2002-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum CEA levels were determined serially by the Hansen Z gel technique on 41 patients with carcinoma of the esophagus and compared to 276 controls. Seventy percent of patients with carcinomas of the esophagus had elevated CEA levels. CEA levels greater than 10.0 ng/ml after therapy correlated with significantly short...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Alexander JC Jr,Chretien PB,Dellon AL,Synder J

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal dilation by means of guided Neoplex (Medoc) tubes in 38 patients with malignant obstruction of the esophagus was analyzed. Peroral dilation proved to be a simple, well-tolerated primary procedure in the management of malignant strictures. Most patients have a temporary improvement of dysphagic symptoms, but...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Aste H,Munizzi F,Martines H,Pugliese V

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00