Abstract：
:Increasingly, treatment choices leading to the same survival outcome can be offered to cancer patients (e.g. mastectomy or conservative surgery in early breast cancer). Two approaches available for post-orchidectomy, stage I patients with non-seminomatous germ cell tumours of the testis (NSGCTT), particularly those at high risk of relapse, include immediate adjuvant chemotherapy (two courses) or surveillance, with chemotherapy (typically four courses) given only on relapse. The aim of this study was to investigate which approach patients prefer. Questionnaires were given to newly diagnosed NSGCTT patients, to patients with previous experience of the two options and to non-cancer controls, including specialist testicular tumour oncologists. Participants were asked to choose between immediate chemotherapy, surveillance or for the doctor to decide, at recurrence risk levels ranging from 10% to 90%. Questionnaires were returned by 207 subjects in nine different groups. The risk thresholds at which subjects' management preference changed, within apparently homogeneous groups, varied greatly, although at least one subject in each group selected adjuvant chemotherapy at the lowest (10%) level of risk. Subjects tended to favour options of which they had previous experience. Cancer patients wanted the doctor to decide more frequently than controls. The wide variability observed makes it difficult to predict which option an individual will select. Personality factors and personal circumstances, other than specific experience and knowledge, are obviously influential. Many patients would prefer their doctor to decide, but variability among oncologists is as great as that among their patients.
journal_name
Br J Cancerjournal_title
British journal of cancerauthors
Cullen MH,Billingham LJ,Cook J,Woodroffe CMdoi
10.1038/bjc.1996.570subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-11-01 00:00:00pages
1487-91issue
9eissn
0007-0920issn
1532-1827journal_volume
74pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Animal tumour models using orthotopic tumours for the evaluation of cancer therapies are of greater clinical relevance than subcutaneous models, but they also pose greater difficulties for measuring tumour size and quantifying response to treatment. In this study, we used noninvasive bioluminescence imaging to monitor...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6601637
更新日期：2004-03-22 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue is poor and it would be beneficial to find prognostic markers to better adjust treatment. Bmi-1 controls cell cycle and self-renewal of tissue stem cells, transcription factor c-myc affects cell proliferation and apoptosis, and Snail regulates epith...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6605544
更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00
abstract：:A retrospective case-control study of 200 patients with head and neck cancer, and 200 controls matched for age and sex, confirmed the importance of tobacco and alcohol consumption in the aetiology of malignant tumours of the upper gastrointestinal and upper respiratory tracts. A male-female ratio of 3:1 was found, and...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1981.26
更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have investigated the influence of tumour cell DNA content (ploidy) on survival of 416 patients undergoing excisional surgery for colorectal cancer. Two hundred and eleven (51%) tumours had an abnormal DNA content (aneuploid or tetraploid). There was no correlation between ploidy status, sex, age and pathological s...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1990.393
更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:RNA tumour virus genes are contained in the chromosomal DNA of most vertebrates, and may be transmitted vertically from parent to progeny along with other cellular genes, as well as horizontally as infectious particles. Activation of these viral genes may be part of the means by which RNA tumour viruses produce cancer...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1038/bjc.1978.23
更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The survival and clonogenic growth (measured in terms of colony forming efficiency (CFE) of intravenously injected (i.v.) Walker (W256) tumour cells in the lungs of rats was greatly enhanced by states of topical and systemic stress induced by the intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of rats with a single dose of 10(-5)-10...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1976.7
更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Id protein family consists of four members namely Id-1 to Id-4. Different from other basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors, they lack the DNA binding domain. Id proteins have been shown to be dysregulated in many different cancer types and their prognostic value has also been demonstrated. Recently, Id-1 has be...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6604035
更新日期：2007-11-19 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuroblastoma is the most common malignancy of infancy but little is known about the aetiological factors associated with the development of this tumour. A number of epidemiological studies have previously examined the risk associated with paternal occupational exposures but most have involved small numbers ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6605504
更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00
abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the occult lymph node carcinomatous diffusion in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). A total of 1328 lymph nodes from 31 patients treated between 2004 and 2005 were prospectively evaluated by routine haematoxylin-eosin-safran (HES) staining, immunohistochemistry ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6603073
更新日期：2006-04-24 00:00:00
abstract：:To investigate possible relationships between genetic alterations and hormonal deregulation during breast cancer development and/or progression, we examined 616 primary breast cancers for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at chromosomal regions 16q24, 17p13.3 and 17q21, and for amplifications of the ERBB2 and c-MYC loci. A...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1995.89
更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The met proto-oncogene is the tyrosine kinase growth factor receptor for hepatocyte growth factor. In the present study, we investigated the role of met expression on the modulation of apoptosis in colorectal tumours. The gene expressions of c-met and the anti-apoptotic bcl-2 family, including bcl-2, bcl-x(L)and bcl-w...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1054/bjoc.2000.1301
更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Various procedures for immunoprotection in the A-SW mouse SEWA tumour system were compared. Four types of protector agents were used: polyoma virus, allogeneic S724 cells, A9/SEWA hybrid cells and xenogeneic ST(py) cells. Several injection schedules were also employed. On the whole, reasonable immunoprotection was obt...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1974.70
更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We investigated whether cholecystectomy is associated with subsequent cancer and, if so, whether the association is likely to be causal, by undertaking a retrospective cohort study using linked medical statistics, comprising a cholecystectomy group (n=39 254) and a reference cohort admitted for a range of other medica...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6602392
更新日期：2005-04-11 00:00:00
abstract：:Eighteen consecutive patients with measurable locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma were treated with goserelin (Zoladex) 3.6 mg subcutaneously every 4 weeks. Hydrocortisone 20 milligrams twice daily was commenced with the second injection of goserelin. Objective tumour response was monitored by com...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1993.69
更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a common malignancy with a good prognosis in the majority of cases. However, some BCC patients develop a more advanced disease that poses significant management challenges. Such cases include locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic BCC, or tumours that occur in anatomical sites where su...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2014.270
更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00
abstract：:Growth of the transplantable EMR-86 rat mammary carcinoma depends on elevated prolactin levels which are induced by oestrogenic stimulation of the pituitary. We investigated histological and cell kinetic changes during tumour regression after removal of implanted oestrogen pellets (EP), and we especially focused on th...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1996.232
更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Patient participation in medical consultations has been demonstrated to benefit their subsequent psychological well being. Question asking is one way in which patients can be active. We investigated 2 means of promoting cancer patient question asking. One was the provision of a question prompt sheet to patients prior ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1054/bjoc.2001.2073
更新日期：2001-11-02 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:To compare the imaging and clinical features of temporal lobe necrosis (TLN) in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients treated with two-dimensional radiotherapy (2D-RT) or those with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). METHODS:We retrospectively analysed NPC patients who underwent 2D-RT (72 patients, ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2014.243
更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) comprises different domains of physical, mental, and social well-being. In this analysis, we focus on sexual quality of life in Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) patients. METHODS:Four-thousand one-hundred and sixty patients enroled in the HD10-HD12 trials underwent HRQoL assessme...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2012.550
更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00
abstract：:We report here a case of a patient affected by endometrial cancer and treated primarily with leuprolide, the surgical approach being unfeasible due to her compromised conditions. The therapy was continued for more than 6 years, and no progression of the disease was observed. During this period, some histological and i...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1054/bjoc.2001.1900
更新日期：2001-08-03 00:00:00
abstract：:We previously demonstrated a characteristically high sensitivity of pancreatic cancer cells to interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) gene transfer, which induced a more prominent growth suppression and cell death in pancreatic cancer cells than in other types of cancers and normal cells. The IFN-alpha protein can exhibit both ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6602713
更新日期：2005-08-22 00:00:00
abstract：:The reactivation of U.V.-irradiated adenovirus 2 in HeLa cells is enhanced 8-9 fold if the cells are given a brief hyperthermic shock before infection. Maximum reactivation is achieved by heating for 10 min at 45.5 degrees C and with a delay of 36 h between heating and infection. The induction process requires protein...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1984.32
更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:In colorectal cancer (CRC), BRAF mutations influence tumour progression. In mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) tumours, BRAF mutations are associated with a good prognosis, whereas in MMR-competent tumours, they are detrimental. The differential expression of the downstream MAPK pathway members, which are cons...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/s41416-018-0174-y
更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, there are few reports on gene products contributing to colon cancer progression. METHODS:We used a gene trap comprised of an enhanced retroviral mutagen (ERM) cassette that includes a tetracycline-responsive promoter upstream of a haemagglutinin (HA) tag and a splice donor site. Integration of the ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6605536
更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00
abstract：:The large numbers of papillary thyroid carcinomas that have occurred in those exposed to high levels of short-lived isotopes in fallout after Chernobyl provide a unique opportunity to correlate latency and tumour biology. We show that short latency is associated with tumours with a phenotype that is significantly less...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6601860
更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:As regulators of malignant cell behaviour and communication with stroma, cytokines have proved useful in understanding cancer biology and developing novel therapies. In renal cell carcinoma, patients with inflammatory reactions are known to have poor prognosis. In order to elucidate the relation between renal cell car...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6600257
更新日期：2002-05-06 00:00:00
abstract：:The human gene sequences encoding the translation-associated functions of alpha-subunit of elongation factor 1 (EF-1 alpha) and the ubiquitin carboxyl extension protein (HUBCEP80) have been isolated by differential cDNA screening, and found to have significantly higher levels of expression in fibroadenomas (benign) co...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1992.12
更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Microsatellite instability is present in over 80% of the hereditary non-polyposis colorectal carcinoma and about 15-20% of the sporadic cancer. Microsatellite instability is caused by the inactivation of the mismatch repair genes, such as primarily hMLH1, hMSH2. To study the mechanisms of the inactivation of mismatch ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6600148
更新日期：2002-02-12 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Systemic inflammation measured by the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), leucocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (LLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) and CRP/albumin ratio (CRP/Alb) was shown to impact the survival prognosis in patients with extracranial solid cancer. METHO...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/s41416-020-01254-0
更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00
abstract：:Soluble and nuclear oestrogen receptor status was determined in both the central and peripheral portions of tumour for 37 cases of adenocarcinoma of the endometrium. Of these, 29 had functional receptor in the peripheral biopsy, but only 19 retained functional receptor in the centre. Six of the 10 patients whose tumou...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1983.34
更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00
