Functionally active duplications of the CYP2D6 gene are more prevalent among larynx and lung cancer patients.

abstract：:Culture-induced cytotoxic (CIC) activity developed in 7-day culture in the presence of fetal calf serum of pleural effusion lymphocytes from patients with lung cancer which initially showed markedly low or no natural killing (NK) activity against K562 cells. The development of CIC activity was proliferation-dependent....

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Uchida A,Micksche M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information technology (IT) can enhance or change many scenarios in cancer research for the better. In this paper, we introduce several examples, starting with clinical data reuse and collaboration including data sharing in research networks. Key challenges are semantic interoperability and data access (including data...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Ahlbrandt J,Lablans M,Glocker K,Stahl-Toyota S,Maier-Hein K,Maier-Hein L,Ückert F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It was the aim of this study to investigate the clinical differences between the tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) sorafenib and sunitinib as second-line treatment for cytokine-refractory kidney cancer patients. METHODS:Twenty consecutive patients received continuous treatment of oral sorafenib at a dose of...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Herrmann E,Bierer S,Gerss J,Köpke T,Hertle L,Wülfing C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the incidence of gastric cancer has been declining in Western countries, it is still a major health problem and a leading cause of cancer mortality. Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for gastric adenocarcinoma. However, even among patients undergoing gastrectomy with curative intent, 5-year survival rates ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： De Vita F,Vecchione L,Galizia G,Di Martino N,Fabozzi T,Catalano G,Ciardiello F,Orditura M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous data showed that distant metastatic breast cancer (MBC) might be curable in up to 3% of the cases in selected patients, mostly young, with good performance status and with low-volume metastatic disease, mainly by an aggressive multidisciplinary approach including aggressive combination chemotherapy ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Güth U,Elfgen C,Montagna G,Schmid SM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven postmenopausal patients with advanced breast cancer were assessed for their response and endocrine changes to low-dose aminoglutethimide (250 mg twice a day) therapy without steroid administration. In 7 cases an objective response was registered; 1 patient had a stabilization of the disease lasting for 9 months...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kahán Z,Tóth I,Vecsernyés M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is recommended as a first-line therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients ineligible for curative therapy and without portal invasion. The Assessment for Retreatment with TACE (ART) scoring system was recently proposed for identifying patients who would not show...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Arizumi T,Ueshima K,Iwanishi M,Minami T,Chishina H,Kono M,Takita M,Kitai S,Inoue T,Yada N,Hagiwara S,Ida H,Minami Y,Sakurai T,Nishida N,Kitano M,Kudo M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In most guidelines, no other interventional therapy but liver transplantation is recommended for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with Child-Pugh C cirrhosis (CP-C). However, in Japan, patients were sometimes treated with expectation of benefit. SUMMARY:A workshop was conducted to explore the...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Nouso K,Kokudo N,Tanaka M,Kuromatsu R,Nishikawa H,Toyoda H,Oishi N,Kuwaki K,Kusanaga M,Sakaguchi T,Morise Z,Kitai S,Kudo M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The survival rate of patients with lung cancer has increased significantly over the years, but there has been no further progress in third- or fourth-line therapy. We investigated the efficacy and tolerability of monotherapy with weekly vinorelbine, a semi-synthetic vinca alkaloid, in advanced non-small-cell...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kang DH,Kim JO,Jung SS,Park HS,Chung C,Park D,Lee JE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival, and the patterns and mechanisms of failure of 41 patients with pure testicular seminoma treated at the Northern Israel Oncology Center from 1968 to 1983 were analyzed. The actuarial 5-year survival of all patients was 85.4% and of stage I patients, 92.2%. Treatment failures were analyzed. The following c...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Stein M,Steiner M,Koten A,Cohen Y,Robinson E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the expression of p16, the CDKN2A gene product, in EBV-associated gastric carcinomas (EBV-GCs). EBV-GCs were identified by detecting EBV-encoded small RNA (EBER) using an in situ hybridization assay of paraffin-embedded tissue. Two non-EBV-GC cases for each EBV-GC case were selected, matched for age, sex, ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Koriyama C,Kitajima S,Nomoto M,Sueyoshi K,Itoh T,Eizuru Y,Yonezawa S,Akiba S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major risk toward development of hepatocellular carcinoma. A number of transgenic mouse lines carrying the cDNA of HCV genome have been established and evaluated in the study of HCV pathogenesis. Among those, the studies using transgenic mouse lines that carry the...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Koike K,Tsutsumi T,Yotsuyanagi H,Moriya K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Therapeutic decision-making in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (MRCC) is based on conventional radiological evaluation. Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) scans may modify this strategy. METHODS:Patients with MRCC for whom a therapeutic decision had been made underwent an FDG-PET scan ...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Dilhuydy MS,Durieux A,Pariente A,de Clermont H,Pasticier G,Monteil J,Ravaud A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and effective renal plasma flow (ERPF) were determined in 8 patients with disseminated testicular carcinoma before, during and 1 year after termination of a combination chemotherapy with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (CDDP). The decrease in median GFR in comparison with the pretreatment...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Meijer S,Mulder NH,Sleijfer DT,Donker AJ,Sluiter WJ,de Jong PE,Schraffordt Koops H,van der Hem GK

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the potential benefit of intermittent chemotherapy, and to identify the eligibility criteria offering intermittent chemotherapy to patients with advanced urothelial cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twenty patients who responded or had stable disease after receiving 3 cycles of induction chemother...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Onishi T,Sasaki T,Hoshina A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposure to the mutagen, ethylmethanesulfonate (EMS), or the carcinogen, urethane (UR), anchorage independence was observed in cultures derived from normal skin biopsies from patients with the heritable cancer syndrome, adenomatosis of the colon and rectum (ACR). Such colonies from methylcellulose suspension cul...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Danes BS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To define the cyclophosphamide (CTX) maximal tolerated dose when combined with fixed doses of gemcitabine, fluorouracil (5-FU) and folinic acid (leucovorin, LFA) in metastatic breast cancer patients pretreated with anthracyclines and taxanes. METHODS:Metastatic breast cancer patients aged < or = 75 years, with...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Frasci G,D'Aiuto G,Comella P,Thomas R,Capasso I,Botti G,Cortino GR,Di Bonito M,Rubulotta R,Vallone P,Comella G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of vitamins to cancer is very complex. Three types of interactions are possible: the effect of vitamins on tumor growth, the effect of tumors on vitamin metabolism, and the effect of vitamins on chemical carcinogens and anti-tumor chemotherapeutic agents. The significance of vitamins with particular r...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Basu TK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since aspirin was found to cause a persistent decrease in pyruvate kinase activity, which is a prominent characteristic of the hepatic promoters, the effect of aspirin on hepatic tumorigenesis in the rat has been studied. Male Wistar rats were initiated with a diet containing 0.06% 3'-methyl-4-dimethylamino-azobenzene...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Yanagi S,Yamashita M,Hiasa Y

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemostatic abnormalities are rather frequent in cancer patients either in hematological or in solid tumors. Acute disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a rare coagulopathy in cancer patients, but when it develops it becomes rapidly fatal. Between June 1988 and December 1992 we observed 8 cases of acute DIC o...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Pasquini E,Gianni L,Aitini E,Nicolini M,Fattori PP,Cavazzini G,Desiderio F,Monti F,Forghieri ME,Ravaioli A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 323 of 1,620 patients with gastric cancer, the lesion was > or = 10 cm in maximum diameter. Studies were done with respect to clinicopathologic features and the prognosis. Patients with tumors > or = 10 cm were younger and women patients were more numerous compared to those with tumors < 10 cm. Tumors were more adv...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Maehara Y,Oiwa H,Oda S,Sakaguchi Y,Endo K,Ohno S,Sugimachi K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunohistochemical stain to the c-ErbB-2 protein was performed in 225 paraffin-embedded tissue blocks from patients with locally advanced gastric cancer who underwent curative resection. The overexpression of the c-ErbB-2 protein was observed in 27.4% of the patients. The c-ErbB-2 positivity showed a statistically...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Lee HR,Kim JH,Uhm HD,Ahn JB,Rha SY,Cho JY,Lee JI,Lee KH,Chung HC,Roh JK,Min JS,Lee KS,Shin DH,Kim BS,Hong SW,Choi JH

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermochemosensitivity was examined in vitro by a human tumor clonogenic assay (HTCA) using specimens obtained surgically from 43 patients with colorectal cancer. We found that the percentages of patients whose cells showed higher sensitivity (greater than 70% inhibition of colony formation) to hyperthermia alone were...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Murakami A,Koga S,Maeta M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare chemotherapy-related and total medical costs among patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) receiving capecitabine or 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) monotherapy after surgical resection. METHODS:This retrospective, claim-based study utilized the Thomson Reuters Market Scan(R) databases to identify 1,396 CRC p...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Chu E,Shi N,Wei W,Bendell JC,Cartwright T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteosarcoma is a rare malignancy, and patients with this disease benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. While cisplatin, anthracyclines and ifosfamide are the most commonly used agents in the treatment of osteosarcoma, a search for the best combination with higher efficacy and minimal toxicity continues. We pl...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Basaran M,Bavbek ES,Saglam S,Eralp L,Sakar B,Atalar AC,Bilgic B,Ozger H,Onat H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a homodimeric glycoprotein with a molecular weight of approximately 45 kDa. It is the key mediator of angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels), and binds two VEGF receptors (VEGF receptor-1 and VEGF receptor-2), which are expressed on vascular endothelial cells. In...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Carmeliet P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has recently undergone marked progress. The advent of the ultrasound (US) contrast agent Sonazoid, approved in January 2007, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the liver-specific MRI contrast agent gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic ac...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kudo M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We retrospectively investigated the treatment outcomes of second-line treatment with pazopanib or gemcitabine/docetaxel in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma (STS). METHODS:Ninety-one patients who were treated with pazopanib or gemcitabine/docetaxel for advanced STS between 1995 and 2015 were analyz...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Kim JH,Park HS,Heo SJ,Kim SK,Han JW,Shin KH,Kim SH,Hur H,Kim KS,Choi YD,Kim S,Lee YH,Suh JS,Ahn JB,Chung HC,Noh SH,Rha SY,Kim HS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intratumoral metabolism and synthesis of estrogens are considered to play very important roles in the pathogenesis and development of various sex steroid-dependent neoplasms including breast and endometrial carcinoma. 17 beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17 beta-HSD) isozymes catalyze the interconversion of estradiol...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Sasano H,Suzuki T,Takeyama J,Utsunomiya H,Ito K,Ariga N,Moriya T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Syndecan-1 is a cell surface heparan sulphate proteoglycan which participates in cell proliferation, cell migration and cell-matrix interactions. Epithelial syndecan-1 expression is reduced in several malignant tumours, but in breast and pancreatic cancer, increased expression has also been described. Loss of...

journal_title：Oncology

authors： Leivonen M,Lundin J,Nordling S,von Boguslawski K,Haglund C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00