Pelvic computed tomography of breast carcinoma patients. Should it routinely be added to abdominal computed tomography?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate assessment of HER-2 status is necessary prior to anti-HER-2 antibody (trastuzumab) therapy for metastatic breast carcinoma. However, controversy exists regarding whether to assess HER-2 status in the primary tumor or in metastatic lesions. It is also unclear whether HER-2 status can change during di...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gong Y,Booser DJ,Sneige N

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with metastatic islet cell carcinoma of the pancreas, recurrent peptic ulcer disease, and hypergastrinemia (Zollinger-Ellison syndrome) developed symptomatic hypercalcemia and renal insufficiency; she was treated with streptozotocin after parathyroidectomy failed to control her hypercalcemia. Shortly after s...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cryer PE,Hill GJ II

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinicopathologic study of 79 patients with parosteal osteogenic sarcoma revealed that more females than males were affected and that most of the patients were in the second to the fourth decades of life. Sixty-eight percent of the patients had involvement of the posterior aspect of the lower femoral shaft. The roen...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Unni KK,Dahlin DC,Beabout JW,Ivins JC

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carboplatin-based regimens have demonstrated activity in pediatric patients with low-grade glioma (LGG). However, carboplatin hypersensitivity reaction (Cb HSR) represents a common and limiting factor for the continuation of therapy. METHODS:The objectives of this study were to describe the prevalence, char...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lafay-Cousin L,Sung L,Carret AS,Hukin J,Wilson B,Johnston DL,Zelcer S,Silva M,Odame I,Mpofu C,Strother D,Bouffet E

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controlled-release (CR) morphine tablets have become routine therapy in the management of cancer pain. Compared with immediate-release (IR) morphine, this formulation provides the benefit of dosing every 12 hours. METHODS:This study reviewed the 10 published, well controlled, repeated-dose, comparative stud...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Warfield CA

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Ets-1 transcription factor has been proposed to play an important role in the invasive process of tumor cells through the induction of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA). METHODS:Because meningiomas are potentially invasive tumors, irrespective of their malignancy grades, the authors immunohist...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kitange G,Tsunoda K,Anda T,Nakamura S,Yasunaga A,Naito S,Shibata S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary splenic angiosarcomas are rare neoplasms. The diagnosis can only be made at surgery. Splenectomy prior to rupture prolongs survival. An unusual case report is presented and the literature reviewed. ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Smith VC,Eisenberg BL,McDonald EC

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen cases of intranasal epithelial tumors are reviewed. Thirteen were epithelial papillomas and four were squamous cell carcinomas associated with epithelial papillomas. In two cases followed over a 10 year period, transformation from an initial papilloma into a carcinoma was demonstrated. The histopathologic ca...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Lasser A,Rothfeld PR,Shapiro RS

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large lipoma and a large angiomyolipoma of the liver, one case each, are described. In the first case, a 24 X 14-cm homogeneous mass demonstrated a fatty density (-96H) on computed tomography (CT), echogenicity on sonography, and fine neovascular vessels on angiography in the right lobe of the liver. Histopathologic...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Takayasu K,Shima Y,Muramatsu Y,Moriyama N,Yamada T,Makuuchi M,Hirohashi S

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proviral DNA of adult T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-I) was examined by the standard Southern blotting method in lymph nodes of 45 patients with anti-HTLV-I antibody (ATLA)-positive adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL). Six of these patients revealed no monoclonal proviral HTLV-I DNA in tumor cells. These six patients s...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Yoshida T,Kikuchi M,Ooshima K,Takeshita M,Kimura N,Kozuru M,Satoh H

更新日期：1989-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who had received CNS sanctuary treatment with cranial X-irradiation and intrathecal methotrexate displayed his first sign of relapse as iritis with malignant hypopyon. Treatment included topical and subconjunctival corticosteroids and local X-irradiation. Leukemic infiltrati...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gruenewald RL,Perry MC,Henry PH

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-three patients with advanced lymphocytic lymphoma were randomly assigned to treatment with the combination cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone (CVP) or the same agents used successively in maximal doses (C-V-P). Complete remissions occurred in 68% with CVP and 48% with C-V-P. For patients with nodular ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kennedy BJ,Bloomfield CD,Kiang DT,Vosika G,Peterson BA,Theologides A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent follow-up studies of patients with mammary carcinoma treated with breast-conserving primary radiotherapy identified a triad of pathologic features significantly associated with local treatment failure. These unfavorable characteristics of the primary tumor were: poor or undifferentiated nuclear grade; intraduct...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rosen PP,Kinne DW,Lesser M,Hellman S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insular thyroid cancer (ITC) is an uncommon, poorly differentiated thyroid malignancy. To date, there have been no population-level studies of the characteristics and outcomes of patients with ITC. METHODS:The authors used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database from 1999 to 2007 to ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kazaure HS,Roman SA,Sosa JA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three adult patients (ages greater than 15 years) and 75 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia were treated with similar intensive, sequential cytotoxic protocols (L-2). The adult patients have lower remission rate (78%) than the children (98%). The duration of remission and the length of survival are also...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Gee TS,Haghbin M,Dowling MD,Cunningham I,Middleman MP,Clarkson BD

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac metastases from malignant melanoma are frequent, usually asymptomatic and occur terminally. When responsible for symptoms, close evaluation of the patient is imperative for correct diagnosis and subsequent therapy. Surgical intervention where indicated in combination with chemotherapy and judicious use of irra...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Thomas JH,Panoussopoulos DG,Jewell WR,Pierce GE

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the adult oncologists in the area of pediatric cancer treatment previously has been unmeasured. A questionnaire bearing regarding the practice of 447 adult oncologists was administered in June 1991. The membership list of the Association of Community Cancer Centers was used to identify contact oncologists....

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Brady AM,Harvey C

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkylating agents form the basis of most combination treatment regimens for low-grade lymphoproliferative disorders. Bendamustine is a unique alkylating agent that has distinctive preclinical activity in cell lines resistant to other alkylators. Furthermore, clinical activity has been demonstrated in patients with alk...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Kalaycio M

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:A proposed pathologic (pTNM) classification system for prostate carcinoma was analyzed for its impact on survival outcome in the prostate specific antigen (PSA) era. The impact of margin status on the survival outcome of patients with otherwise organ-confined disease (i.e., without extraprostatic extension o...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Blute ML,Bostwick DG,Seay TM,Martin SK,Slezak JM,Bergstralh EJ,Zincke H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Curative resection does not guarantee long term survival for the patient with extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma because of the possibility of metastases to the liver (LM). Expression of mucin core protein-1 (MUC1), sialyl-Le(x), and sialosyl-Tn in bile duct carcinoma was determined and compared with LM and pr...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Takao S,Uchikura K,Yonezawa S,Shinchi H,Aikou T

更新日期：1999-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this project was to develop the M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI), a brief measure of the severity and impact of cancer-related symptoms. METHODS:A list of symptoms was generated from symptom inventories and by panels of clinicians. Twenty-six symptoms and 6 interference items were rat...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Cleeland CS,Mendoza TR,Wang XS,Chou C,Harle MT,Morrissey M,Engstrom MC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outcomes have improved significantly in multiple myeloma (MM), but racial disparities in health care access and survival exist. A comprehensive analysis exploring MM care and racial disparities is warranted. METHODS:Patients with MM from 1991 to 2010 in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medica...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Ailawadhi S,Frank RD,Sharma M,Menghani R,Temkit M,Paulus S,Khera N,Hashmi S,Advani P,Swaika A,Paulus A,Aslam N,Sher T,Roy V,Colon-Otero G,Chanan-Khan A

更新日期：2018-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who are diagnosed with osteosarcoma (OS) today receive the same therapy that patients have received over the last 4 decades. Extensive efforts to identify more effective or less toxic regimens have proved disappointing. As we enter a postgenomic era in which we now recognize OS not as a cancer of mutations bu...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Roberts RD,Lizardo MM,Reed DR,Hingorani P,Glover J,Allen-Rhoades W,Fan T,Khanna C,Sweet-Cordero EA,Cash T,Bishop MW,Hegde M,Sertil AR,Koelsche C,Mirabello L,Malkin D,Sorensen PH,Meltzer PS,Janeway KA,Gorlick R,Cro

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of genes responsible for inherited forms of colorectal cancer have the potential to improve cancer risk assessment and counseling. Germline mutations (nonsense, frameshift) of APC are associated with familial adenomatous polyposis, an autosomal dominant syndrome, clinically characterized by young onset, ...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Petersen GM,Brensinger JD,Johnson KA,Giardiello FM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is used in the treatment of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. Sudden death is a rare complication of IL-2 treatment. METHODS:A patient with lymphoma underwent chemoradiotherapy myeloablation and autologous stem cell transplantation. The stem cells were cultured in IL-2 (6000 IU...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Truica CI,Hansen CH,Garvin DF,Meehan KR

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of cancer resembles that of many other diseases in that multiple factors may be required. Because of this, the role or viruses in the etiology of human cancers is especially difficult to assess. When animal tumor systems were used as models, the roles of various predisposing characteristics in virus oncog...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Rapp F,Reed CL

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonographic examinations and measurements of CA 19-9 and elastase 1 were done simultaneously in 14 patients with resectable pancreatic cancer of less than 3.0 cm in longest diameter and 48 patients with pancreatitis. Although a pancreatic mass was detected ultrasonically in only six (42.9%) of the patients with t...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Iishi H,Yamamura H,Tatsuta M,Okuda S,Kitamura T

更新日期：1986-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with high-dose interleukin-2 (HD IL-2) has resulted in durable tumor regression in a minority of patients. The current study presents the authors' 20-year experience administering this immunotherapeutic agent. METHODS:Patients with metastatic RCC (n = 2...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Klapper JA,Downey SG,Smith FO,Yang JC,Hughes MS,Kammula US,Sherry RM,Royal RE,Steinberg SM,Rosenberg S

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For women who are candidates for menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), estrogen can provide relief from symptomatic menopause, decrease rates of chronic illnesses, and improve health-related quality of life. However, confusion surrounds the evidence regarding the impact of exogenous estrogen and progesterone on the breast...

journal_title：Cancer

authors： Temkin SM,Mallen A,Bellavance E,Rubinsak L,Wenham RM

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00