Polymorphonuclear neutrophil function in malignant lymphomas and effects of splenectomy.

abstract：:Data from the Cancer Registry in the Netherlands Antilles made clear that the incidence rate of cancer of the upper digestive tract in this country was among the highest in the world. To study the long-term trends in the incidence rate a retrospective population-based case-finding survey was performed. The author pres...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Freni SC

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fortunately, primary malignant mucosal melanoma of the head and neck is a rare entity. A paucity of data elucidating the predictive factors as well as the unpredictable and aggressive biologic behavior of mucosal melanoma compound the vexing clinical situation. This review summarizes what the literature reve...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Manolidis S,Donald PJ

更新日期：1997-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The term poorly differentiated (PD) carcinoma was proposed 20 years ago to define aggressive, follicular-derived thyroid carcinomas with behavior intermediate between follicular/papillary and anaplastic carcinomas. Among the variable histologic patterns recognized in such tumors, trabecular-insular-solid (TI...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Volante M,Landolfi S,Chiusa L,Palestini N,Motta M,Codegone A,Torchio B,Papotti MG

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ordinary craniopharyngiomas affecting sellar regions of children and preadolescents are composed of ameloblastomatous and/or squamous constituents. The authors encountered an autopsy case of a stillborn infant with a large craniopharyngioma with unusual manifestations. METHODS:The craniopharyngioma was anal...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yamada H,Haratake J,Narasaki T,Oda T

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BRCA2 gene, located at chromosome 13q12.3, frequently is altered in familial types of cancer in which a "double-hit" inactivation model seems to occur. In contrast, in sporadic forms of cancer there is frequent absence of a second event (point mutations) suggesting that allelic imbalance at the BRCA2 locus m...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gorgoulis VG,Kotsinas A,Zacharatos P,Mariatos G,Liloglou T,Tsoli E,Kokotas S,Fassoulas C,Field JK,Kittas C

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) that transforms to Richter syndrome (RS) frequently show atypical lymphocytes in bone marrow; however, a diagnosis of RS requires confirmation of the presence of sheets of large cells in bone marrow or lymph nodes. METHODS:In this study, the authors evaluated...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ma Y,Mansour A,Bekele BN,Zhou X,Keating MJ,O'Brien S,Giles FJ,Albitar M

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case with the unusual association of Graves' disease and functioning pulmonary metastases of follicular thyroid carcinoma. Unlike other reports of thyroid cancer and thyrotoxicosis, this patient's hyperthyroidism was related to a hyperfunctioning primary thyroid neoplasm and not merely to large amounts of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Grayzel EF,Bennett B

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to determine whether standardized treatment of germ cell tumors (GCTs) could overcome sociodemographic factors limiting patient care. METHODS:The records of all patients undergoing primary treatment for GCTs at both a public safety net hospital and an academic tertiary care c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chertack N,Ghandour RA,Singla N,Freifeld Y,Hutchinson RC,Courtney K,Bowman IA,Arafat W,Meng X,Moore JA,Aydin AM,Sagalowsky AI,Margulis V,Lotan Y,Woldu SL,Bagrodia A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty white and 15 black children with neuroblastoma were compared with respect to survival. Patient age and tumor stage at diagnosis were similar in the two groups, as was duration of symptoms prior to diagnosis. There was no significant difference between the white and black children in regard to median duration of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： DiNicola W,Movassaghi N,Leikin S

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During recent years there has been a growing awareness among both the oncologic and nutrition communities about an association between nutrition and cancer causation with the practical implication of manipulating nutrition as a means of preventing cancer. Epidemiologic correlations, prospective studies of selected pop...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Newell GR

更新日期：1983-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic carcinomas are rare malignant neoplasms of the thymic epithelium that are distinguished from the malignant thymomas by the presence of cytologic atypia. Thymic carcinomas may metastasize outside of the thorax and are associated with a very poor prognosis. Complete responses of thymic carcinoma to chemotherapy a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Carlson RW,Dorfman RF,Sikic BI

更新日期：1990-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Central nervous system (CNS) recurrence is almost invariably fatal in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Although some protocols are intended to prevent CNS disease, the value of CNS prophylaxis in patients with aggressive NHL remains to be determined. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tomita N,Kodama F,Kanamori H,Motomura S,Ishigatsubo Y

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment with traditional cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens containing streptozocin or dacarbazine has resulted in only marginal benefit for patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors. The use of these regimens has been further limited by their potential toxicity. Gemcitabine is generally well tolerated a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kulke MH,Kim H,Clark JW,Enzinger PC,Lynch TJ,Morgan JA,Vincitore M,Michelini A,Fuchs CS

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a heterogeneous disease, there are considerable efforts underway to develop increasingly accurate and precise analytics with which to estimate the probability of future events such as the need for and probability of response to therapy, progression-free survival, and survival. T...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Montserrat E,Gale RP

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to quantify the lymphocyte to epithelial cell ratio (L/E ratio of the thymoma, actual counting was performed. The L/E ratio was investigated in 25 specimens of 22 cases (22 initial tumors and 3 recurrent tumors). L/E ratios ranged from 0.27 to 4.10, and the mean value was 1.93 +/- 0.21. The mean L/E ratio of ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Masaoka A,Nagaoka Y,Maeda M,Monden Y,Seike Y

更新日期：1977-09-01 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:Nodal status is one of the most important prognostic factors for distal bile duct cancer. The pattern of lymphatic spread of distal bile duct cancer was analyzed by determining the frequency of involvement of various lymph nodes. MATERIALS AND METHODS:From 1973 to 1991, 29 patients with distal bile duct can...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kayahara M,Nagakawa T,Ueno K,Ohta T,Takeda T,Miyazaki I

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior literature has suggested synergy between immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) and radiotherapy (RT) for the treatment of brain metastases (BrM), but to the authors' knowledge the optimal timing of therapy to maximize this synergy is unclear. METHODS:A total of 199 patients with melanoma and non-small cell ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Qian JM,Martin AM,Martin K,Hammoudeh L,Catalano PJ,Hodi FS,Cagney DN,Haas-Kogan DA,Schoenfeld JD,Aizer AA

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize the clinical features of laboratory-confirmed influenza in 20 children and young adults with cancer who were receiving immunosuppressive therapy. Viruses isolated from pharyngeal and nasopharyngeal cultures were identified as the A/Hong Kong/1/68 strain or one of its varia...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Feldman S,Webster RG,Sugg M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimal weekly oral dose of sirolimus and intravenous nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel) were evaluated. METHODS:A phase 1b study was performed to evaluate escalating doses of oral sirolimus (5-60 mg) on days 2, 9, and 16 with intravenous nab-paclitaxel (100 mg/m(2) ) on days 1, 8, a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Abu-Khalaf MM,Baumgart MA,Gettinger SN,Doddamane I,Tuck DP,Hou S,Chen N,Sullivan C,Lezon-Geyda K,Zelterman D,Hatzis C,Deshpande H,Digiovanna MP,Azodi M,Schwartz PE,Harris LN

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors hypothesized that insurance payer and race would influence the care and outcomes for patients with breast carcinoma. METHODS:The authors examined treatments and adjusted risk of death (through 1997) for all incident cases of breast carcinoma occurring in Florida in 1994 (n = 11,113) by using sta...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Roetzheim RG,Gonzalez EC,Ferrante JM,Pal N,Van Durme DJ,Krischer JP

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Western countries, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is usually advanced at presentation and is rarely diagnosed in situ. The authors studied an in situ squamous cell carcinoma that occupied the entire mucosa of a 9 cm length of esophagus, causing dysphagia for solid food in a woman aged 68 years. METHO...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chu P,Stagias J,West AB,Traube M

更新日期：1997-05-15 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:Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is the predominant cause of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM). METHODS:Using a PTHrP-specific monoclonal antibody (MoAb), 4B3, the authors investigated the immunohistochemical localization of PTHrP in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded sections of normal...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gotoh A,Kitazawa S,Mizuno Y,Takenaka A,Arakawa S,Matsumoto O,Kitazawa R,Fujimori T,Maeda S,Kamidono S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichosporon cutaneum is a fungus known to cause superficial nodules over the distal third of hair shafts, mainly scalp hair, and to produce a clinical entity known as piedra. This superficial mycosis occurs mostly in temperate and tropical regions and is rarely seen in North America. Trichosporon cutaneum spesis is d...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rivera R,Cangir A

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies in the literature have suggested that radiolabeled F(ab')2 fragments might be superior to whole immunoglobulin G (IgG) for imaging and therapy of cancer because of their greater penetration in tumors. To test this hypothesis, the authors compared tumor and normal tissue uptake along with pla...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Murray JL,Rosenblum MG,Zhang HZ,Podoloff DA,Kasi LP,Curley SA,Chan JC,Roh M,Hohn DC,Brewer H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently no adequate staging system for cerebral astrocytomas. A scheme for acquiring data that can be used to stage cerebral hemisphere tumors is suggested. This data base, in conjunction with treatment and survival information, may be useful in the management of childhood hemispheric tumors. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Edwards MS,Klein DM

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactivity of serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) from 20 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with immobilized lentil lectin was examined and found to be significantly greater (39% +/- 18%) than that of the same protein from seven patients with chronic liver disease (CLD, 11.2% +/- 3.3%), seven with fulminant h...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Du MQ,Hutchinson WL,Johnson PJ,Williams R

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman with a very extensive intramedullary hemangioblastoma of the spinal cord was treated with a moderately high dose of irradiation after biopsy only of the tumor. Now, five years following treatment, there have been no radiation sequelae and no evidence of progressive disease. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Richardson RG,Griffin TW,Parker RG

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the recognition of ionizing radiation as a causal risk factor for a variety of solid tumors (including brain tumors), to date, such an association with pituitary adenoma (PA) has not been demonstrated. METHODS:To evaluate a possible association between past exposure to radiation and the occurrence o...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Juven Y,Sadetzki S

更新日期：2002-07-15 00:00:00