Neurologic complications of patients with small cell prostate carcinoma. Report of two cases.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although K-ras is the most frequently mutated protooncogene in colorectal carcinoma, the specific role and timing of K-ras mutations in colorectal carcinogenesis remains controversial. In the current study, the authors investigated associations with K-ras mutation in incident sporadic colorectal adenomas tha...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Barry EL,Baron JA,Grau MV,Wallace K,Haile RW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increase in resting energy expenditure (REE) is considered to contribute to the weight loss experienced by patients with cancer. However, alternations in basal metabolism vary among patients with different neoplasms. REE in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a common malignant tumor in Taiwan, ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chen WJ,Chung YC

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication reports four patients treated with the anthracycline adriamycin and irradiation either concurrently or sequentially, who demonstrated apparent augumentation of radiation reactions. Two of these patients demonstrated the so-called "recall" phenomenon. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cassady JR,Richter MP,Piro AJ,Jaffe N

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment of febrile neutropenia (FN) is costly, because it typically involves hospitalization. As cancer rates continue to increase, the number of patients suffering from FN will also increase, making it important to quantify the costs of treating this condition accurately and comprehensively. METHODS:A co...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lathia N,Mittmann N,DeAngelis C,Knowles S,Cheung M,Piliotis E,Shear N,Walker S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When 70 children with disseminated neuroblastoma were treated for 4 months with a course of cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin (Adriamycin) 35 (52%) of 68 assessable patients achieved complete remissions, 13 had partial responses, and 20 had either less than a 50% regression of tumor or evidence of tumor progression. Of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Green AA,Hayes FA,Hustu HO

更新日期：1981-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The stabilization and nuclear translocation of beta-catenin are early events in the majority of sporadic colorectal carcinomas (CRC). beta-catenin up-regulates c-Myc and cyclin D1, which antagonize the association of the cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) inhibitor, p27(kip1), with Cdk2, thus allowing cell cycle ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cheah PY,Choo PH,Yao J,Eu KW,Seow-Choen F

更新日期：2002-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiotherapy with its advantage of organ preservation has been used to treat laryngeal cancer (LC) for several decades. However, the impact of radiation on overall survival (OS) in a large population-based study has not been evaluated to date. METHODS:The authors analyzed all patients who had localized and/...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Zhang H,Travis LB,Chen R,Hyrien O,Milano MT,Newlands SD,Chen Y

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, histological, and ultrastructural aspects of a cervical paraganglioma of the vagus nerve, in a 66-year-old white man, have been discussed in detail. Ultrastructurally, the tumor chief cells contained characteristic membrane-bound and dense-cored neurosecretory granules which ranged in size from 85 millim...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chaudhry AP,Haar JG,Koul A,Nickerson PA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Melanoma vaccine treatment appears to slow the progression of melanoma in some patients, particularly in patients in whom it stimulates cellular antimelanoma immune responses. The relationship of vaccine-induced antibody responses to clinical outcome is less clear. The purpose of this study was to investigat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Miller K,Abeles G,Oratz R,Zeleniuch-Jacquotte A,Cui J,Roses DF,Harris MN,Bystryn JC

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic and laboratory data suggest that cervical cancer typically arises from a series of causal steps. Each step can be studied separately in the hope of better etiologic understanding and improved cancer prevention. The earliest identified etiologic step is infection of young women with specific types of vene...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Schiffman MH,Brinton LA

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies evaluating the efficacy of routine follow-up testing in detecting disease recurrence in treated lung carcinoma patients are lacking. METHODS:To investigate this subject, the authors studied 115 patients who had previously been entered on North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) small cell lung c...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Perez EA,Loprinzi CL,Sloan JA,Owens DT,Novotny PJ,Bonner JA

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with adenocarcinoma of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas treated with mitomycin C(MMC) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) had renal impairment 6-11 months from the beginning of MMC therapy. Two clinical entities were recognized: an acute fulminating renal failure that was rapidly fatal and a chronic slo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hanna WT,Krauss S,Regester RF,Murphy WM

更新日期：1981-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression profiling should be applicable to needle biopsy samples if microarray technology is to become practically useful for clinical research or management of breast carcinoma. This study compared gene expression profiles derived from fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and from core needle biopsy ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Symmans WF,Ayers M,Clark EA,Stec J,Hess KR,Sneige N,Buchholz TA,Krishnamurthy S,Ibrahim NK,Buzdar AU,Theriault RL,Rosales MF,Thomas ES,Gwyn KM,Green MC,Syed AR,Hortobagyi GN,Pusztai L

更新日期：2003-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) is a neoplasm of the mature helper T-lymphocyte. Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has been shown to be the cause of this neoplasm. Recently, however, the HTLV-1 genome has been found in some patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), which suggests a causa...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kikuchi A,Ohata Y,Matsumoto H,Sugiura M,Nishikawa T

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with Stage I Grade 1 endometrial carcinoma have an excellent prognosis and a 10-year survival rate of more than 90%. In every clinical series, however, a few patients in this group have recurrence and die of their disease. METHODS:The authors reviewed 80 patients with Stage I Grade 1 endometrial ca...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Tornos C,Silva EG,el-Naggar A,Burke TW

更新日期：1992-08-15 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：:Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was measured in 147 patients at diagnosis of small cell lung cancer; 17% of patients with limited disease and 51% with extensive disease had an abnormal CEA level (greater than 10 ng/ml). The median level was higher in extensive than in limited disease (11 ng/ml and 5.8 ng/ml, respective...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Laberge F,Fritsche HA,Umsawasdi T,Carr DT,Welch S,Murphy WK,Chiuten DF,Dhingra HM,Farha P,Spitzer G

更新日期：1987-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical and pathologic features of two cases of adenosarcoma. Our first case occurred in the ovary of a 51-year-old woman with extensive pelvic involvement. She was treated vigorously with radiation and chemotherapy and at the present time almost 9 years later the patient is free of disease. This repres...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Valdez VA,Planas AT,Lopez VF,Goldberg M,Herrera NE

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is understood about the factors that influence survival in patients who undergo gamma-knife stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases. METHODS:Demographic, disease, treatment, and survival data on 334 patients with intracranial metastases who underwent initial SRS from 1998 to 2004 were ab...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： DiLuna ML,King JT Jr,Knisely JP,Chiang VL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although acquired somatic mutations presumably are crucial in carcinogenesis, nothing is known about the chromosome aberrations of bilateral breast carcinomas. METHODS:Eighteen specimens from 16 bilateral carcinomas were analyzed cytogenetically. The banding analysis was supplemented with fluorescence in si...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Pandis N,Teixeira MR,Gerdes AM,Limon J,Bardi G,Andersen JA,Idvall I,Mandahl N,Mitelman F,Heim S

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Various chemotherapy agents, especially of the alkylating category, have been associated with premature ovarian failure but there is no quantitative evidence of chemotherapy-induced ovarian damage in humans. The aim was to quantify the impact of chemotherapy on primordial follicle reserve and stromal functio...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Oktem O,Oktay K

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon is approved for adjuvant treatment of patients with stage IIB/III melanoma. The identification of predictive markers that would permit selection of patients would be beneficial. Specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and II antigens have previously shown an association with response to the...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gogas H,Kirkwood JM,Falk CS,Dafni U,Sondak VK,Tsoutsos D,Stratigos A,Markopoulos C,Pectasides D,Spyropoulou-Vlachou M

更新日期：2010-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some studies have suggested that the use of calcium channel blockers may increase the risk of cancer. A possible association of the use of calcium channel blockers with cancer incidence and cancer mortality was addressed using data from the Nurses' Health Study. METHODS:In this study, a total of 18,635 fema...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Michels KB,Rosner BA,Walker AM,Stampfer MJ,Manson JE,Colditz GA,Hennekens CH,Willett WC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred-eighty patients were randomized to receive either BCNU, hydroxyurea and imidazole carboxamide (BHD), BHD plus levamisole, or high-dose DTIC plus actinomycin D. There was no difference in response rate in the three groups (24%, 25% and 22%). Females responded better than males and, as expected, those with a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Costanzi JJ,Fletcher WS,Balcerzak SP,Taylor S,Eyre HJ,O'Bryan RM,Al-Sarraf M,Frank J

更新日期：1984-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of gastric plasmacytoma is reported in an 81-year-old woman. Immunofluorescent and immunoelectrophoretic studies showed that the tumor cells produced IgM-lambda molecules, whereas no monoclonal immunoglobulin could be detected both in the serum and in the urine. Of more than 60 reported cases of gastric plasmac...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Funakoshi N,Kanoh T,Kobayashi Y,Miyake T,Uchino H,Ochi K

更新日期：1984-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors compared the survival outcomes of radiotherapy+/-salvage surgery to surgery+/-postoperative radiotherapy for patients with squamous cell cancer of the hypopharynx. There was no evidence beyond observational studies and no consensus on the which treatment is most effective for this patient group. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hall SF,Groome PA,Irish J,O'Sullivan B

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been postulated that different biologic characteristics of a tumor might account for at least a portion of the disparity in breast cancer survival for patients across racial and ethnic groups. The hormone receptor status of breast tumors is one characteristic with prognostic significance. Results of s...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gapstur SM,Dupuis J,Gann P,Collila S,Winchester DP

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An association between fats and colorectal carcinoma has been suggested, but the epidemiologic evidence by type of dietary fat is far less clear. Colorectal carcinoma rates have been relatively low in Mediterranean countries compared with most other Western countries, but the components of the Mediterranean ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Braga C,La Vecchia C,Franceschi S,Negri E,Parpinel M,Decarli A,Giacosa A,Trichopoulos D

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique characteristics of tumor vasculature represent an attractive target that may be exploited by vascular-targeting anticancer agents. A promising strategy involves the selective disruption of established tumor blood vessels by tumor-vascular disrupting agents (tumor-VDAs), which exhibit antivascular activity, ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： McKeage MJ,Baguley BC

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia seen in the University of Colorado Leukemia Clinic were reviewed with respect to therapy. A total of 55 patients seen consecutively through mid 1980 were included in this study. Of these patients 30 were treated with busulfan, 14 were treated with hydroxyurea and 11 r...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Bolin RW,Robinson WA,Sutherland J,Hamman RF

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00