Phase II study of high-dose tamoxifen (NSC-180973) in patients with disseminated malignant melanoma.

abstract：:Thyroid function and scans were evaluated in fifty disease-free patients 2 to 16 years after receiving neck irradiation for the treatment of Hodgkin's disease. Twenty-five of 50 patients had abnormal thyroid studies: eight were hypothyroid, two were hypothyroid and had abnormal scans, and fifteen had abnormal scans. O...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nelson DF,Reddy KV,O'Mara RE,Rubin P

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) with a malignant neoplasm is rare and generally has been the subject of isolated case reports. METHODS:A recent case of LCH seen at the University of Minnesota in combination with acute lymphoblastic leukemia led the authors to review their own charts f...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Egeler RM,Neglia JP,Puccetti DM,Brennan CA,Nesbit ME

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The health-related functioning of patients with cancer is compromised by several factors, including the disease process, treatment, and the various symptoms that are produced by both disease and treatment. This study was designed to specify the relationship between patients' pain severity and their self-repo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wang XS,Cleeland CS,Mendoza TR,Engstrom MC,Liu S,Xu G,Hao X,Wang Y,Ren XS

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood changes preceding therapy-related leukemia were studied in 105 patients who had received cytotoxic therapy, 53 for Hodgkin's disease and 52 for other cancers. Preleukemic anomalies were observed in 74.3% of the cases, appearing after a mean interval of 68.7 months after diagnosis of the initial cancer...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： De Gramont A,Louvet C,Krulik M,Smadja N,Donadio D,Laporte JP,Brissaud P,Smith M,Delâge JM,Drolet Y

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bortezomib is active in heavily pretreated multiple myeloma patients; the dose-limiting toxicity is peripheral neuropathy (PN). METHODS:The authors retrospectively reviewed the incidence, severity, and risk factors for PN in 78 patients who received bortezomib. The median age was 57 years (range, 33-80 year...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Badros A,Goloubeva O,Dalal JS,Can I,Thompson J,Rapoport AP,Heyman M,Akpek G,Fenton RG

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with Hodgkin's disease who developed idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) are presented. In contrast to prior cases reported in the literature, none of these patients developed recurrent Hodgkin's disease at the time of or subsequent to their thrombocytopenia, with follow-up data available up to 10 y...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cohen JR

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoembryonic antigen is only a tumor assoicated antigen and is less clinically useful than the original report suggested. However, the CEA assays in clinical use utilize reagents operationally defined by old criteria. There is now abundant evidence that "CEA" consists of a heterogenous family of related glycoprote...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Alpert E

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few previous articles have analyzed the relation between infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) and primary gastric lymphoma in a large number of patients. METHODS:Resected and biopsied specimens from 237 patients with primary gastric lymphoma were investigated for H. pylori using hematoxylin and eo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nakamura S,Yao T,Aoyagi K,Iida M,Fujishima M,Tsuneyoshi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirty-nine consecutive unselected adults with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia were treated with a high-dose chemotherapeutic remission-induction regimen consisting of daunomycin (70 mg/m2 IV on days 1, 2, 3), cytosine arabinoside (100 mg/m2 IV every 12 hours), 6-thioguanine (100 mg/m2 orally every 12 hour...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Glucksberg H,Cheever MA,Farewell VT,Fefer A,Sale GE,Thomas ED

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of employing adjuvant topical mechlorethamine after electron beam therapy in the treatment of patients with mycosis fungoides is demonstrated. Patients treated with a planned adjuvant topical mechlorethamine schedule had a median disease-free interval of 25 months compared to 17 months for the group tr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Price NM,Hoppe RT,Constantine VS,Fuks ZY,Farber EM

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ultrasound (US) is more sensitive than physical examination alone in determining axillary lymph node involvement during preliminary staging of breast carcinoma. Due to occasional overlap of sonographic features of benign and indeterminate lymph nodes, fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of sonographically indetermi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Krishnamurthy S,Sneige N,Bedi DG,Edieken BS,Fornage BD,Kuerer HM,Singletary SE,Hunt KK

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September 21, 1973 and May 9, 1975, 36 patients with metastatic cervical adenopathy from cancers primarily arising in the pharynx or oral cavity, including six with bilateral cervical involvement, received fast neutron teletherapy at the University of Washington. At the conclusion of treatment, the masses were...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Berry HC,Parker RG,Gerdes AJ

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canada is a westernized, market-economy nation with a publicly funded health care and cancer control system and has health indices reflective of a high-resource economy. Provision of health services is in accord with the Canada Health Act and is implemented through federal, provincial, and territorial relations wherei...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sutcliffe SB

更新日期：2011-05-15 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：:To determine the impact of pulmonary infections on survival in patients with lung cancer, a retrospective review of the records of 121 such patients treated at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC, was done. There were 77 men and 44 women; 118 were black. The mean age was 63.5 years. Forty-three patients had s...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Perlin E,Bang KM,Shah A,Hursey PD,Whittingham WL,Hashmi K,Campbell L,Kassim OO

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier literature suggests a high incidence of multicentricity and bilaterality, with an overall poor prognosis, in patients with invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast. Consequently, there is considerable disagreement regarding appropriate local management of this disease. To determine the influence of invasive lo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Poen JC,Tran L,Juillard G,Selch MT,Giuliano A,Silverstein M,Fingerhut A,Lewinsky B,Parker RG

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant struma ovarii is a very rare tumor, consisting of a struma ovarii with malignant change. Only 17 examples with metastases have previously been reported. We present a case which involved both ovaries and produced multiple metastases. Microscopy and ultrastructure were identical to a mixed papillary and follic...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pardo-Mindan FJ,Vazquez JJ

更新日期：1983-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was measured in extracts of cell suspensions from tumors of the colon, stomach, breast, lung and kidney. Cell suspensions were also obtained from normal tissue surrounding the primary tumors. The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria. Hig...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： MacSween JM,Anderson GH

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to analyze the extent of hypoxia in prostate carcinoma tumors using the Eppendorf pO(2) microelectrode and correlate this with pretreatment characteristics and prognostic factors. METHODS:Custom-made Eppendorf pO(2) microelectrodes were used to obtain pO(2) measurements from th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Movsas B,Chapman JD,Greenberg RE,Hanlon AL,Horwitz EM,Pinover WH,Stobbe C,Hanks GE

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy once relegated to end stage patients has markedly improved with the use of combinations. Response rates with single agents have improved from 15 to 35%, to 50 to 70%, using combinations with an increase in complete response rates to about 25%. A series of four studies completed by the Eastern Cooperative ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Carbone PP,Bauer M,Band P,Tormey D

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight patients with metastatic colorecal carcinoma were treated with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), and 38 patients were treated with the combination of 5-FU, cyclophosphamide, and methotrexate. In terms of percent response, response duration, and survival there was no apparent difference between the two regimens. Comb...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Richards F 2nd,Pajak TL,Cooper MR,Spurr CL

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin receptor (IR), a member of the receptor tyrosine kinase family, is expressed in normal thyroid cells and affects thyroid cell proliferation and differentiation. METHODS:The authors measured IR content in benign and malignant thyroid tumors by three independent methods: a specific radioimmunoassay, 1...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Frittitta L,Sciacca L,Catalfamo R,Ippolito A,Gangemi P,Pezzino V,Filetti S,Vigneri R

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Axillary dissection in elderly patients with early-stage breast carcinoma who do not have palpable axillary lymph nodes is controversial because of the associated morbidity of the surgery, reduced life expectancy of the patients, and efficacy of hormone therapy in preventing recurrences and axillary events. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Martelli G,Miceli R,De Palo G,Coradini D,Salvadori B,Zucali R,Galante E,Marubini E

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although >70% of younger women with nonmetastatic breast cancer (BC) received adjuvant chemotherapy, only approximately 15% to 20% of elderly women with BC received chemotherapy. The decision to treat may be associated with nonmedical factors, such as patient, physician, or practice characteristics. In the c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hershman DL,Buono D,McBride RB,Tsai WY,Neugut AI

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sperm cryopreservation before cancer chemotherapy is available for young patients with cancer. However, few patients bank their sperm. The authors evaluated by questionnaire the psychological impact of sperm cryopreservation. METHODS:The authors cryopreserved the sperm of 111 patients with cancer for free a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Saito K,Suzuki K,Iwasaki A,Yumura Y,Kubota Y

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the introduction of the TNM residual tumor (R) classification, the involvement of resection margins has been defined either as a microscopic (R1) or a macroscopic (R2) demonstration of tumor directly at the resection margin ("tumor transected"). METHODS:The recognition of the importance of the circumf...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Wittekind C,Compton C,Quirke P,Nagtegaal I,Merkel S,Hermanek P,Sobin LH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histologic, histochemical, immunocytochemical, and ultrastructural features of two cardiac myxomas containing glandular elements are reported. Glandular elements in both cases stained positively with both mucicarmine and periodic acid-Schiff reagent with diastase pretreatment (DPAS). Immunoperoxidase studies demonstra...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Goldman BI,Frydman C,Harpaz N,Ryan SF,Loiterman D

更新日期：1987-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the esophagus is a relatively rare lesion which characteristically exhibits a clinically aggressive behavior. In spite of this aggressive nature, it is most often referred to as a counterpart of the more common adenoid cystic carcinoma of salivary gland origin, a comparatively indolent tumo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Epstein JI,Sears DL,Tucker RS,Eagan JW Jr

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary lymphomas of the small intestine (PIL) show definite racial and geographic distribution. Clinical and laboratory data on 132 patients with PIL treated and followed up over a 14-year period in Baghdad, Iraq, are presented. Based on the pattern of involvement of the bowel and the histopathologic appearance of th...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Al-Bahrani ZR,Al-Mondhiry H,Bakir F,Al-Saleem T

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB) and extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMPC) are unusual solitary tumors of plasma cell origin. The clinical differences between these tumors and multiple myeloma are the subject of continued study. This review examines the radiotherapy experience at M. D. Anderson Hospital. Between 1948 ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Corwin J,Lindberg RD

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00