Abstract：
:Maintenance therapy using rituximab is currently under consideration as a means of prolonging remission in patients with indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A phase II trial using rituximab as first-line therapy followed by maintenance treatment was carried out in patients with previously untreated indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The overall response rate improved from 47% (7% complete response) after initial treatment to 73% (37% complete response) after maintenance treatment; median progression-free survival was 37 months. A similar study in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) also showed some improvement in response rates after maintenance therapy and a median progression-free survival of 19 months. The improved remission duration suggested in these phase II trials has been confirmed in a randomized, phase III trial performed by the Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research. Patients with follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who had objective response or stable disease after a standard 4-week course of rituximab were randomized to either observation or further maintenance rituximab treatment. Median event-free survival was longer in patients who received maintenance therapy (23 v 12 months; P =.02). The toxicity of maintenance rituximab has been minimal in all trials to date. Although prolongation of progression-free survival has been shown in all completed trials, multiple other questions regarding maintenance rituximab are being addressed in ongoing trials. These include optimum schedule/duration, use after initial chemotherapy/rituximab combinations, efficacy versus retreatment at progression, and efficacy in other B-cell neoplasms.
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Semin Oncoljournal_title
Seminars in oncologyauthors
Hainsworth JDsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-02-01 00:00:00pages
17-21issue
1 Suppl 2eissn
0093-7754issn
1532-8708pii
S0093-7754(03)00643-2journal_volume
31pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:The humanized anti-p185(HER2) monoclonal antibody trastuzumab has been shown to effectively inhibit the growth of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer cells in vivo and in vitro. The treatment of cancer cells with trastuzumab results in downregulation of the HER2 receptor. Further downstream cellular events include the a...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0093-7754(01)90276-3
更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Single-agent docetaxel has been shown to produce a significant decrease in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels among patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). A recent study also showed that exisulind, a sulfone metabolite of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug sulindac, lengthens the median PSA ...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0093-7754(01)90156-3
更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Pancreatic neoplasms are morphologically and genetically heterogeneous and include a wide variety of tumors ranging from benign to malignant with an extremely poor clinical outcome. Our understanding of these pancreatic neoplasms has improved significantly with recent advances in cancer sequencing. Awareness of molecu...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2014.12.004
更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Solid organ tumors associated with neoangiogenesis, as measured by increased microvessel density (MVD), have poorer prognoses. A similar observation of increased MVD has been made in hematologic malignancies; however, its prognostic significance remains unknown. We investigated changes in MVD in 122 newly diagnosed mu...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0093-7754(01)90025-9
更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Modulation of the signaling pathways that are aberrant in cancer cells has the potential to provide an effective nontoxic approach to patient management in a broad range of cancers. This quest has taken a major leap forward with the demonstration that STI-571 (imatinib mesylate) induces clinical and molecular remissio...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2003.08.011
更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Because studies of breast cancer patients and their relatives provide statistical evidence for involvement of autosomal dominant genes, the identification of specific genetic effects has long been the focus of efforts to identify women at exceedingly high risk. BRCA1, a gene that confers greatly increased susceptibili...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2005.07.007
更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The treatment of locally advanced carcinoma of the cervix with radiation therapy as a single modality is inadequate, specifically for stage III and IVA disease. While chemotherapy as single-modality therapy is ineffective in advanced cervical cancer, there is some evidence of efficacy when used in combination with rad...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Recent data indicate that cellular immune responses can produce an anticancer effect. Two types of cellular immune responses appear to be clinically relevant: antigen specific immunity mediated by T cells that recognize tumor-associated peptide antigen expressed on surface HLA class I or class II molecules, and antige...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2004.02.021
更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/sonc.2001.25445
更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2005.11.006
更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Thus, many interesting and promising techniques are now available for the study of potential prognostic factors in esophageal carcinoma, and the results may supplement the information that is obtained by routine histopathologic analysis. It may become possible to define subgroups of patients with lower risk tumors, fo...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Etoposide phosphate (Etopophos; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ) is a water-soluble prodrug of etoposide that is converted in vivo by endogenous phosphatases to the active drug etoposide. This conversion process is efficient and not saturable in humans at doses between 50 and 1,600 mg/m2. The resultant eto...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) remain major obstacles to successful allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, contributing substantially to morbidity and non-relapse mortality. Better understanding of the immunopathophysiology of GvHD has identified a number of targets for intervention. A...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0093-7754(03)00250-1
更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Paclitaxel (Taxol; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ) has demonstrated substantial single-agent activity against both minimally pretreated and resistant metastatic breast cancer. Evaluation of paclitaxel-based combinations has demonstrated appreciable activity, but also toxicity, for the paclitaxel/doxorubic...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1053/sonc.2003.50062
更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Etoposide has been used in the treatment of a wide variety of neoplasms, including small cell lung cancer. Kaposi's sarcoma, testicular cancer, acute leukemia, and lymphoma. Its current therapeutic use is limited by myelosuppression, particularly neutropenia. Pharmacodynamic studies of etoposide show that this toxicit...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2006.08.010
更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Despite evidence of molecular abnormalities in biological specimens, progress in this disease is hampered by the lack of diagnostic markers useful for clinical practice. The majority of patients with lung cancer are still diagnosed at an advanced s...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2005.02.009
更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2004.07.017
更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2013.01.003
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Letrozole has proven efficacious in a variety of therapeutic scenarios, including that of extended adjuvant therapy following 5 years of tamoxifen treatment in postmenopausal women with estrogen-receptor-positive early breast cancer. The Breast International Group 1-98 trial (BIG 1-98) is the first to study the effica...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi：10.1053/j.seminoncol.2006.03.026
更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Quality of life (QOL) variables are increasingly included as end points in cancer therapy trials, supplementing such traditional end points as survival time in evaluating the effects of cancer treatments. Consensus has been reached that a number of QOL components (symptom status and physical, emotional, role, and soci...
journal_title：Seminars in oncology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00
