Effectiveness of once weekly total skin electron beam therapy in mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome.

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:The Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) is a nine-item patient-rated symptom visual analogue scale developed for use in assessing the symptoms of patients receiving palliative care. The purpose of this study was to validate the ESAS in a different population of patients. METHODS:In this prospective stu...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chang VT,Hwang SS,Feuerman M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purported lack of long term modern prostate brachytherapy outcome data continues to lead many physicians to recommend other, more traditional treatments. This concern for long term results has encouraged the authors to supplement their earlier 10-year follow-up of patients receiving brachytherapy; in the...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ragde H,Korb LJ,Elgamal AA,Grado GL,Nadir BS

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy alone, surgery alone, or the combination of these two modalities, remain the accepted treatments in the management of epidermoid carcinomas of the mucosa of the head and neck. These modalities of therapy produce comparable results; but, radiotherapy alone has the advantage that it can conserve anatom...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Marcial VA,Pajak TF

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is hypothesized that oligometastatic disease represents a state of potentially curable, limited metastases. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is an option for patients who are not amenable to or do not want resection. METHODS:From 2001 to 2006, 121 patients with < or =5 detectable metastases wer...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Milano MT,Katz AW,Muhs AG,Philip A,Buchholz DJ,Schell MC,Okunieff P

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with breast cancer developed pulmonary toxicity following mitomycin therapy. The presenting symptoms were shortness of breath and a dry cough. The radiological pictures varied from a normal chest x-ray to extensive bilateral pneumonitis. The histological findings consisted of diffuse alveolar damage progr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Buzdar AU,Legha SS,Luna MA,Tashima CK,Hortobagyi GN,Blumenschein GR

更新日期：1980-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma acidic glutathione S-transferase (GST-pi) concentrations in 135 patients with gastrointestinal cancer were measured by an improved radioimmunoassay (RIA). METHODS:Blood was collected into a silicified glass tube containing a specific anticoagulant. The plasma, which was separated rapidly by centrifug...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fan KC,Huang YC,Li CH

更新日期：1995-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus infection can be a major cause of morbidity in immunocompromised patients, especially when there is pulmonary involvement. Diagnosis of aspergillosis is often complicated by the varied clinical presentation and compromised medical status of such patients. Four cases of head and neck Aspergillus infections ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schubert MM,Peterson DE,Meyers JD,Hackman R,Thomas ED

更新日期：1986-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circulating immune complexes (CIC) have been implicated as a cause of malignancy-associated immunosuppression and disease progression. Previous attempts to remove CIC by pheresis or immunoadsorption over a Staphylococcus aureus protein A column have resulted in a few clinical responses, however the relations...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Fennelly DW,Norton L,Sznol M,Hakes TB

更新日期：1995-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple cell-signaling ligands and receptors-including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), insulin-like growth factor (IGF), endothelial growth factor (EGF), v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog (AKT), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and 70-kilod...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Abdeen A,Chou AJ,Healey JH,Khanna C,Osborne TS,Hewitt SM,Kim M,Wang D,Moody K,Gorlick R

更新日期：2009-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiogenesis is essential for tumor growth, progression, and metastases. Microvessel density (MVD), a measure of tumor angiogenesis, has been found to have prognostic significance in many tumor types for predicting metastasis and survival. METHODS:Between 1979-1989, 56 cases of FIGO Clinical Stage I and II ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kaku T,Hirakawa T,Kamura T,Amada S,Kinukawa N,Kobayashi H,Sakai K,Ariyoshi K,Sonoda K,Nakano H

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a need for guidelines on patient navigation activities to promote both the quality of patient navigation and the standards of reimbursement for these services because a lack of reimbursement is a major barrier to the implementation, maintenance, and sustainability of these programs. METHODS:A broad...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Freund KM,Haas JS,Lemon SC,Burns White K,Casanova N,Dominici LS,Erban JK,Freedman RA,James TA,Ko NY,LeClair AM,Moy B,Parsons SK,Battaglia TA

更新日期：2019-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with basal cell carcinoma (BCC) demonstrate marked variation in clinical phenotype, suggesting the presence of distinct subgroups. Patients with truncal lesions comprise an interesting subgroup, because, although the pathogenesis of these tumors is unclear, there is evidence to suggest that their de...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ramachandran S,Fryer AA,Smith A,Lear J,Bowers B,Jones PW,Strange RC

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracranial meningiomas are common and comprise 20% of all primary brain tumors. Meningiomas infrequently metastasize; however, to the authors' knowledge there are limited data regarding the spread of disease through cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). METHODS:Eight of 200 consecutive patients (4%) with meningiomas...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chamberlain MC,Glantz MJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between June 1977 and December 1978, occult testicular leukemia (OTL) was discovered at three years of continual complete remission (CCR) from the time of diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in 5 of 59 (8.5%) of males undergoing bilateral wedge testicular biopsy at 1 of 15 participating Southwest Oncology ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Askin FB,Land VJ,Sullivan MP,Ragab AH,Steuber CP,Dyment PG,Talbert J,Moore T

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment and characterization of 11 human lung cancer cell lines are described in this article. Nine of these cell lines were established over a 5-year period, from 1983 to 1988, from patients treated at the Kingston Regional Cancer Centre. These include eight definite or probable small cell lung cancer (SCLC...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Campling BG,Haworth AC,Baker HM,Greer DL,Holden JJ,Bradley EC,Pym J,Dexter DF

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children with metastatic extragonadal endodermal sinus tumor who had failed VAC chemotherapy were treated with combination chemotherapy consisting of cis-platinum, vinblastine, doxorubicin HCl (Adriamycin) and bleomycin (cis-VAB). There was a complete response in both patients with one child remaining tumor-free 3...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Thomas WJ,Kelleher JF,Duval-Arnould B

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data suggest that vitamin D plays a role in the treatment and prevention of prostate cancer. The combination of high-dose, intermittent calcitriol (1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3) plus dexamethasone was studied based on evidence that dexamethasone potentiates the antitumor effects of calcitriol and ameliorates hyp...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Trump DL,Potter DM,Muindi J,Brufsky A,Johnson CS

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study was performed to describe frequencies and risk factors of altered oral health and odontogenesis in childhood cancer survivors. METHODS:In total, 9308 survivors who were diagnosed between 1970 and 1986 and 2951 siblings from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study completed a survey that contai...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kaste SC,Goodman P,Leisenring W,Stovall M,Hayashi RJ,Yeazel M,Beiraghi S,Hudson MM,Sklar CA,Robison LL,Baker KS

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For the current report, the authors examined the characteristic features of morphology and molecular biology of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), beta-catenin, and p53 immunocytochemistry in endometrial carcinoma by using thin-layer cytologic preparations. METHODS:During a 6-month period, 120 endometri...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Norimatsu Y,Miyamoto M,Kobayashi TK,Moriya T,Shimizu K,Yanoh K,Tsukayama C,Miyake Y,Ohno E

更新日期：2008-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To define the clinicopathologic and prognostic features of patients with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1)-associated adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) in North America, standard criteria were used to identify patients with ATLL. METHODS:Statistical analyses used included descriptive stati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Phillips AA,Shapira I,Willim RD,Sanmugarajah J,Solomon WB,Horwitz SM,Savage DG,Bhagat G,Soff G,Zain JM,Alobeid B,Seshan VE,O'Connor OA

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid adenomas are subdivided into chief cell and oxyphil cell variants. However, the parathyroid carcinomas described thus far have been only of the chief cell type. Two cases of oxyphil cell carcinoma of the parathyroid gland are reported, with light and electron microscopic study. The patients presented appar...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Obara T,Fujimoto Y,Yamaguchi K,Takanashi R,Kino I,Sasaki Y

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective adsorption of several common "monospecific" HLA typing sera with HLA typed platelets, purified B lymphocytes, cultured lymphoid cells, or lymphocytes from patients with active chronic lymphocytic leukemia demonstrated that many of these sera contain antibodies to non-HLA antigens. Antibodies were detected to...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pollack MS,DuBois D

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression of oncofetal fibronectin (oncFN) and normal fibronectin (norFN) in colorectal cancer specimens was examined to investigate the correlation between fibronectin localization and histologic grade, liver metastasis, and prognosis. METHODS:Immunohistochemical staining of oncFN and norFN was performed ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Inufusa H,Nakamura M,Adachi T,Nakatani Y,Shindo K,Yasutomi M,Matsuura H

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old boy with primary reticulum cell sarcoma of the testis who is alive and free of tumor 32 months after orchiectomy, radiation therapy to inguinal, iliac and retroperitoneal lymph nodes and chemotherapy is reported. Seven previously documented cases of childhood primary testicular lymphoma are reviewed. The...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Weitzner S,Gropp A

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The short term addition of nandrolone decanoate to combination chemotherapy given to patients with unresectable non-small cell lung cancer was evaluated in a randomized, prospective trial. Patients were treated with doxorubicin 50 mg/M2 intravenously, cyclophosphamide 300 mg/M2 intravenously, CCNU 50 mg/M2 orally, vin...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chlebowski RT,Herrold J,Ali I,Oktay E,Chlebowski JS,Ponce AT,Heber D,Block JB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study evaluated whether the risk of developing thyroid cancer in Asian women was associated with infertility and the use of fertility drugs. METHODS:The authors conducted a large, retrospective cohort study using Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. From the insurance claims dat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ding DC,Chen W,Wang JH,Lin SZ,Sung FC

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast carcinoma is one of the leading causes of excess mortality rates in Harlem, an inner-city neighborhood with the highest mortality rates and worst life expectancy in New York City. This study reports the results of a breast carcinoma screening and diagnostic program in Harlem. METHODS:Retrospective re...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Liberman L,Freeman HP,Chandra S,Stein AL,McCord C,Godfrey D,Dershaw DD

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:Forty-six examples of carcinoma cuniculatum, a rare variant of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, were studied by means of light and electron microscopy and immunoperoxidase techniques. The tumors usually presented as ulcerated, fungating, and polypoid masses with openings of sinus tracts onto the skin surface that ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kao GF,Graham JH,Helwig EB

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00