Depression in patients with pancreatic carcinoma. Diagnostic and treatment issues.

abstract：BACKGROUND:This survey documents the strategies used by pain control physicians in the selection of opioid drugs and routes of administration in the management of inpatients referred to a cancer pain service. METHODS:The following approaches were prospectively evaluated during the treatment of 100 consecutive inpatien...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cherny NJ,Chang V,Frager G,Ingham JM,Tiseo PJ,Popp B,Portenoy RK,Foley KM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is the second most common cause of death among those aged > or =65 years, and is a major cause of morbidity. There is some evidence that screening, by detecting precancerous lesions in asymptomatic patients, is effective in reducing cancer-related morbidity and mortality among older men and women. The objective...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sheinfeld Gorin S,Gauthier J,Hay J,Miles A,Wardle J

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children receiving immunosuppressive treatment for cancer are at high risk for invasive pneumococcal disease. The 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) can prevent pneumococcal disease in healthy children; however, there is an absence of literature regarding the benefit of PCV13 in immunocompromis...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Hung TY,Kotecha RS,Blyth CC,Steed SK,Thornton RB,Ryan AL,Cole CH,Richmond PC

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This qualitative study investigated the medical decision-making preferences of adolescent oncology patients and the parental and clinician behaviors that adolescents report to be supportive of their preferred level of decision-making involvement. METHODS:Interviews were conducted with 40 adolescents between...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Weaver MS,Baker JN,Gattuso JS,Gibson DV,Sykes AD,Hinds PS

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a modified Feulgen hydrolysis procedure and integrating microdensitometry, the acid-labile nuclear DNA in exfoliated cervical epithelial cells was quantified in a range of histologically confirmed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), invasive cancer, and normal controls. The mean relative optical densities ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Partington CK,Sincock AM,Steele SJ

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) including polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and myelofibrosis, are faced with oppressive symptom profiles that compromise daily functioning and quality of life. Among these symptoms, sexuality-related symptoms have emerged as particularly prominen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Geyer HL,Andreasson B,Kosiorek HE,Dueck AC,Scherber RM,Martin KA,Butler KA,Harrison CN,Radia DH,Cervantes F,Kiladjian JJ,Reiter A,Birgegard G,Passamonti F,Senyak Z,Vannucchi AM,Paoli C,Xiao Z,Samuelsson J,Mesa RA

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated (MAPK/ERK) pathway is activated by upstream genomic events and/or activation of multiple signaling events in which information coalesces at this important nodal pathway point. This pathway is tightly regulated under normal conditions by phosphatases a...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Burotto M,Chiou VL,Lee JM,Kohn EC

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To identify the factors that contribute to poorer colon carcinoma survival rates for African Americans compared with Caucasians, the authors evaluated survival differences based on the histologic grade (differentiation) of the tumor. METHODS:All 169 African Americans and 229 randomly selected non-Hispanic C...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Alexander D,Jhala N,Chatla C,Steinhauer J,Funkhouser E,Coffey CS,Grizzle WE,Manne U

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-five malignant tumors in the submandibular gland, the sublingual gland, and the minor salivary glands seen in a 25-year period were reviewed. The patients were retrospectively staged using the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) classification. The most frequent tumor was adenoid cystic carcinoma, foll...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Andersen LJ,Therkildsen MH,Ockelmann HH,Bentzen JD,Schiødt T,Hansen HS

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The distinction of sporadic from inherited medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTCs) is of clinical importance because of the differences in prognosis, and the need for family screening for genetic counseling required in the latter. Germline mutations in the RET protooncogene are associated with multiple endocrine...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Komminoth P,Kunz EK,Matias-Guiu X,Hiort O,Christiansen G,Colomer A,Roth J,Heitz PU

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Tecumseh Community Health Study (TCHS), initiated in 1959 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, has provided a resource for long term prospective studies of the incidence of cancer in the setting of a midwestern rural farming community. METHODS:A survey of total and site specific cancer...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Waterhouse D,Carman WJ,Schottenfeld D,Gridley G,McLean S

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CEA-like material was found in 51 of 62 primary human breast carcinomas and in only 2 of 12 fibroadenomas. Levels of carcinoma CEA-like material correlated weakly with cytoplasmic estradiol receptor levels, total cytosol estrogens, and cytosol progesterone. Levels of CEA-like material showed no significant correlation...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Duffy MJ,O'Connell M,O'Sullivan F,McKenna B,Allen MA,McDonnell L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five immunocompetent patients with solid tumors were immunized with BCG, PPD, and tumor cells. The methods were practical, but the morbidity was significant, including painful draining ulcerations at vaccine sites, possible enhancement of tumor growth in three patients, and the discovery at autopsy of systemic t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gerner RE,Moore GE

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extrapulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor (plasma cell granuloma) is an uncommon lesion in adults and children, and little is known either of its etiology or clinical characteristics. However, it remains a significant source of morbidity to patients and confusion to clinicians. METHODS:Case reports are presen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Treissman SP,Gillis DA,Lee CL,Giacomantonio M,Resch L

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is a reliable, rapid, minimally invasive alternative to surgical biopsy when it is performed by physician specialists for the diagnosis of palpable masses. FNAB may be under-utilized in community hospitals in the U.S. because physicians without specialty training commonly...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Florentine BD,Staymates B,Rabadi M,Barstis J,Black A,Cancer Committee of the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital.

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire-Lung Cancer 13 (QLQ-LC13) covers 13 typical symptoms of lung cancer patients and was the first module developed in conjunction with the EORTC core quality-of-life (QL) questionnaire. This review investigates how the mo...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Koller M,Warncke S,Hjermstad MJ,Arraras J,Pompili C,Harle A,Johnson CD,Chie WC,Schulz C,Zeman F,van Meerbeeck JP,Kuliś D,Bottomley A,European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group.,EO

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondary acute myeloid leukemia (AML) after treatment with epipodophyllotoxins is being observed with increased frequency. Therapeutic options are limited for patients with secondary AML and the role of bone marrow transplantation is unclear. METHODS:The authors report the treatment outcome of a cohort of ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Sandler ES,Friedman DJ,Mustafa MM,Winick NJ,Bowman WP,Buchanan GR

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From November 1985 to August 1988, the National Study Group for Oesophageal Cancer collected and centralized data on 1926 new cases of oesophageal cancer in South Africa. A standard data sheet was used to record the age, sex, and condition of the patients, the site, length, and circumferential extent of the tumor, the...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Mannell A,Murray W

更新日期：1989-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The altered and anomalous expression of carbohydrate antigens (CA) occur in patients with lung carcinomas. METHODS:To investigate the relationship between prognosis and immunohistochemical findings of CA in serum and pulmonary adenocarcinomas (PA), PA specimens surgically resected from 102 patients were stu...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kawai T,Suzuki M,Kase K,Ozeki Y

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among patients with core-needle biopsy (CNB)-diagnosed ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), the guidelines for the selection of patients to undergo sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy are not well defined, and many patients with no invasion undergo an unnecessary SLN biopsy. The objective of this study was to ident...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Huo L,Sneige N,Hunt KK,Albarracin CT,Lopez A,Resetkova E

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of endometrial adenoacanthoma is reported in which two histologically distinct populations of cells were identified in the primary tumor. The two cell types differed in that one had phagocytosed large numbers of polymorphonuclear leucocytes. A subsequent skin metastasis was composed entirely of cells capable of...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Chandrasoma P

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 49-year-old man with the diagnosis of angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy is reported. The patient survived a stormy clinical course. The corticosteroids improved dramatically the clinical picture although the patient developed a staphylococcal septicemia. Before treatment immunological studies were done ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kosmidis PA,Axelrod AR,Palacas C,Stahl M

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are three distinct types of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity (acute, chronic, and late-onset). Although previous studies with animal models suggest that angiotensin II plays a key role in the process of the doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity, there has been no such observation in humans. This randomi...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Nakamae H,Tsumura K,Terada Y,Nakane T,Nakamae M,Ohta K,Yamane T,Hino M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe two cases of epithelioid sarcoma of the vulva and summarize the clinical and pathologic experience with this vulvar neoplasm. Findings indicate that epithelioid sarcoma of the vulva usually occurs in the labia majora of young women, but may occur in later life. Clinically it may mimic a Bartholin'...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ulbright TM,Brokaw SA,Stehman FB,Roth LM

更新日期：1983-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred ninety patients who had advanced active Hodgkin's disease, lymphosarcoma, or reticulum cell sarcoma were treated with a combination of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (COPP) given in a cyclical fashion every month. Complete remission was produced in 91 of 138 (66%) patients with...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Morgenfeld MC,Pavlovsky A,Suarez A,Somoza N,Pavlovsky S,Palau M,Barros CA

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) biopsy allows the detailed imaging and FNA not only of both intramural and extramural structures and lesions of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract but also of various intraabdominal organs. Thus, EUS-FNA biopsy offers a novel opportunity to evaluate ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Jhala NC,Jhala D,Eloubeidi MA,Chhieng DC,Crowe DR,Roberson J,Eltoum I

更新日期：2004-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Although androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) remains the mainstay of castration-sensitive prostate cancer (CSPC) therapy, the disease's heterogeneity and the limited duration of the response have chaperoned the introduction of chemotherapy and the investigation of novel hormonal targeted agents in this setting. Combina...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Francini E,Taplin ME

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the authors applied flow cytometric DNA-ploidy analysis to multiple female genital tract malignant tumors in 43 patients, most of whom (n = 37) had bilateral ovarian cancer. An algorithm was developed for calculation of the likelihood ratio of the probabilities that measured DNA index differences between...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Smit VT,Fleuren GJ,van Houwelingen JC,Zegveld ST,Kuipers-Dijkshoorn NJ,Cornelisse CJ

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survival trends provide a measure of improvement in detection and treatment over time. In the current study, updated childhood and adolescent cancer survival statistics are presented, overall and among demographic subgroups, including Hispanics, for whom to the authors' knowledge national rates have not been...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Linabery AM,Ross JA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A Phase II study with carboplatin, methotrexate, and vinblastine (CAMV) was conducted with patients who had advanced urothelial cancer to investigate the activity and toxicity of carboplatin when used in combination chemotherapy. METHODS:Thirty-six patients with advanced urothelial cancer were treated with ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Boccardo F,Pace M,Guarneri D,Canobbio L,Curotto A,Martorana G

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00