Synergistic inhibition of tumor growth by combination treatment with drugs against different subpopulations of glioblastoma cells.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancers of unknown primary (CUPs) constitute ~5% of all cancers. The tumors have an aggressive biological and clinical behavior. The aim of the present study has been to uncover whether CUPs exhibit distinct molecular features compared to metastases of known origin. METHODS:Employing genome wide transcripto...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Vikeså J,Møller AK,Kaczkowski B,Borup R,Winther O,Henao R,Krogh A,Perell K,Jensen F,Daugaard G,Nielsen FC

更新日期：2015-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Median age at diagnosis of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is > 70 years. However, the majority of clinical trials do not reflect the demographics of CLL patients treated in the community. We examined treatment patterns, outcomes, and disease-related mortality in patients ≥ 75 years with CLL...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Nabhan C,Mato A,Flowers CR,Grinblatt DL,Lamanna N,Weiss MA,Davids MS,Swern AS,Bhushan S,Sullivan K,Flick ED,Kiselev P,Sharman JP

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein secretion by mammary cells results in autocrine and paracrine signaling that defines cell growth, migration and the extracellular environment. Even so, we have a limited understanding of the cellular processes that regulate protein secretion. METHODS:In this study, we utilize human epithelial mammar...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Zhang Y,Gonzalez RM,Zangar RC

更新日期：2011-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAPs) with antitumor activity constitute a promising group of novel anticancer agents. These peptides induce lysis of cancer cells through interactions with the plasma membrane. It is not known which cancer cell membrane components influence their susceptibility to CAPs. We h...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Fadnes B,Rekdal O,Uhlin-Hansen L

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To compare the survival outcomes and acute toxicities of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT), induction chemotherapy (IC) plus radiotherapy (RT), and IC plus CCRT in patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) treated using intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). METHODS:Patients w...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Li WF,Li YQ,Chen L,Zhang Y,Guo R,Zhang F,Peng H,Sun Y,Ma J

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been a sharp rise in the incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) in many countries. Patients with HPV-positive OPSCC have a more favorable prognosis compared with HPV-negative OPSCC, leading to investigation and adoption of de-escalation trea...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Nopmaneepaisarn T,Tangjaturonrasme N,Rawangban W,Vinayanuwattikun C,Keelawat S,Bychkov A

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate radiomics analysis in neuro-oncologic studies according to a radiomics quality score (RQS) system to find room for improvement in clinical use. METHODS:Pubmed and Embase were searched up the terms radiomics or radiogenomics and gliomas or glioblastomas until February 2019. From 189 articles, 51 ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Park JE,Kim HS,Kim D,Park SY,Kim JY,Cho SJ,Kim JH

更新日期：2020-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colon cancer is the most common type of gastrointestinal cancer and has high morbidity and mortality. Colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) is the main pathological type of colon cancer, and much evidence has supported the correlation between the prognosis of COAD and the immune system. The current study aimed to deve...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Luo J,Liu P,Wang L,Huang Y,Wang Y,Geng W,Chen D,Bai Y,Yang Z

更新日期：2020-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stereotactic radiotherapy is an emerging treatment option for patients with inoperable renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Haemorrhage has not previously been reported to occur as a result of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) to the kidney for primary RCC. We report an acute haemorrhage in a patient who received...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Hilleary LA,Wratten C,Siva S,Hilleary J,Martin JM

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metastasis is the main cause of death for lung cancer patients. The ex vivo 4D acellular lung model has been shown to mimic this metastatic process. However, the main concern is the model's lack of cellular components of the tumor's microenvironment. In this study, we aim to determine if the intact lung micr...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Mishra DK,Miller RA,Pence KA,Kim MP

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Signaling pathways that converge on two different transcription factor complexes, NFkappaB and AP-1, have been identified in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers resistant to the antiestrogen, tamoxifen. METHODS:Two cell line models of tamoxifen-resistant ER-positive breast cancer, MCF7/HER2 and B...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Zhou Y,Yau C,Gray JW,Chew K,Dairkee SH,Moore DH,Eppenberger U,Eppenberger-Castori S,Benz CC

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are currently approved for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). The cardiotoxic effects of sorafenib and sunitinib may cause hypertension, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) dysfunction and/or congestive heart failure (CHF), and arterial thrombo-em...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Pantaleo MA,Mandrioli A,Saponara M,Nannini M,Erente G,Lolli C,Biasco G

更新日期：2012-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 'common variant, common disease' model predicts that a significant component of hereditary breast cancer unexplained by pathogenic variants in moderate or high-penetrance genes is due to the cumulative effect of common risk variants in DNA (polygenic risk). Assessing a woman's breast cancer risk by testi...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Yanes T,Meiser B,Young MA,Kaur R,Mitchell G,Barlow-Stewart K,Roscioli T,Halliday J,James P

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor recurrence and metastasis are the most common reason for treatment failure. Metastasis-associate in colon cancer-1 (MACC1) has been identified as a metastatic and prognostic biomarker for colorectal cancer and other solid tumors. Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1), a marker of cancer stem cells, is also ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Zhou L,Yu L,Zhu B,Wu S,Song W,Gong X,Wang D

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of male cancer death in developed countries. Although the role of angiogenesis in its progression is well established, the efficacy of anti-angiogenic therapy is not clearly proved. Whether this could depend on differential responses between tumor and normal endoth...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Fiorio Pla A,Brossa A,Bernardini M,Genova T,Grolez G,Villers A,Leroy X,Prevarskaya N,Gkika D,Bussolati B

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BRAF-activated noncoding RNA (BANCR) is aberrantly expressed in various tumor tissues and has been confirmed to function as a tumor suppressor or oncogene in many types of cancers. Considering the conflicting results and insufficient sampling, a meta-analysis was performed to explore the prognostic value of ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Fang S,Liu Z,Guo Q,Chen C,Ke X,Xu G

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased mammographic breast density is a moderate risk factor for breast cancer. Different scales have been proposed for classifying mammographic density. This study sought to assess intra-rater agreement for the most widely used scales (Wolfe, Tabár, BI-RADS and Boyd) and compare them in terms of classify...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Garrido-Estepa M,Ruiz-Perales F,Miranda J,Ascunce N,González-Román I,Sánchez-Contador C,Santamariña C,Moreo P,Vidal C,Peris M,Moreno MP,Váquez-Carrete JA,Collado-García F,Casanova F,Ederra M,Salas D,Pollán M,DDM-Spain.

更新日期：2010-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment standard for patients with primary glioblastoma (GBM) is combined radiochemotherapy with temozolomide (TMZ). Radiation is delivered up to a total dose of 60 Gy using photons. Using this treatment regimen, overall survival could be extended significantly however, median overall survival is still onl...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Combs SE,Kieser M,Rieken S,Habermehl D,Jäkel O,Haberer T,Nikoghosyan A,Haselmann R,Unterberg A,Wick W,Debus J

更新日期：2010-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Preoperative chemotherapy (PCT) and chemoradiotherapy (PCRT) showed promising results for gastric cancers. However, the influence of preoperative adverse events (AEs) on postoperative complications remains unknown. The aim of this study was to identify correlations between them. METHODS:Clinical data and l...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Li SX,Seo SH,Choi YY,Nakagawa M,An JY,Kim HI,Cheong JH,Hyung WJ,Noh SH

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:SMAD4 is frequently inactivated and associated with a poor prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Abnormal SMAD4 expression also plays an important role in the malignant progression of PDAC. METHODS:We investigated SMAD4 status in PDAC by immunohistochemical methods to explore the relationshi...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Wang Z,Li Y,Zhan S,Zhang L,Zhang S,Tang Q,Li M,Tan Z,Liu S,Xing X

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer survivors and their caregivers may have various unmet needs that are medically difficult to solve. Previous studies have suggested the relations between individuals' backgrounds and their unmet needs. We conducted a large-scale analysis to clarify the influence of individuals' backgrounds, primarily c...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Watanabe K,Katayama K,Yoshioka T,Narimatsu H

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing appreciation that non-cancer cells within the tumour microenvironment influence cancer progression and anti-cancer drug efficacy. For metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), the bone marrow microenvironment influences metastasis, drug response, and possibly drug resistance. METHODS:Using a nov...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Mosaad E,Chambers K,Futrega K,Clements J,Doran MR

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wilms' tumor is also called nephroblastoma and is the most common pediatric renal cancer. Several genetic and epigenetic factors have been found to account for the development of Wilms' tumor. MiRNAs play important roles in this tumorigenic process. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the role of m...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Liu Z,He F,OuYang S,Li Y,Ma F,Chang H,Cao D,Wu J

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Altered expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) is known to contribute to cancer progression. miR-23b and miR-27b, encoded within the same miRNA cluster, are reported to have both tumor suppressive and oncogenic activity across human cancers, including breast cancer. METHODS:To clarify this dichotomous role in bre...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Hannafon BN,Cai A,Calloway CL,Xu YF,Zhang R,Fung KM,Ding WQ

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To report a case of metastatic hepatocholangiocarcinoma to the vitreous and retina. CASE PRESENTATION:A 70-year-old male, who was recently diagnosed with hepatocholangiocarcinoma, was complaining of floaters in his right eye over the past 5 months and was referred to the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre. On...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Praidou A,Jacob S,Irion L,Sivaraj R,Groenewald C,Coupland SE,Heimann H

更新日期：2017-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:H. pylori, whose infection increases tumor invasiveness and metastasis, is generally labelled as the strongest risk factor for the development of gastric cancer. It appears not to be a coincidence that there is also an overexpression of CXCR4 and an obvious involvement in gastric cancer metastasis. The aim o...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Zhao C,Lu X,Bu X,Zhang N,Wang W

更新日期：2010-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Development of escape pathways from antiangiogenic treatments was reported to be associated with enhanced tumor aggressiveness and rebound effect was suggested after treatment stop. Aim of the study was to evaluate tumor response simulating different conditions of administration of antiangiogenic treatment (...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Marinelli S,Salvatore V,Baron Toaldo M,Milazzo M,Croci L,Venerandi L,Pecorelli A,Palamà C,Diana A,Bolondi L,Piscaglia F

更新日期：2014-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The failure of treatment for breast cancer usually results from distant metastasis in which the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a critical role. Hyperinsulinemia, the hallmark of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), has been regarded as a key risk factor for the progression of breast cancer. Nuclea...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Xia B,Hou L,Kang H,Chang W,Liu Y,Zhang Y,Ding Y

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report updated progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) data from a trial that compared capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (CapeOX) versus S-1 plus oxaliplatin (SOX) for the first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer. METHODS:This trial was a randomized, two-armed, non-inferiority p...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Kim ST,Hong YS,Lim HY,Lee J,Kim TW,Kim KP,Kim SY,Baek JY,Kim JH,Lee KW,Chung IJ,Cho SH,Lee KH,Shin SJ,Kang HJ,Shin DB,Lee JW,Jo SJ,Park YS

更新日期：2014-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Growing evidence has indicated that some inflammatory markers, including lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR), neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and prognostic nutritional index (PNI), can be used as indicators in the prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, there ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Song Y,Yang Y,Gao P,Chen X,Yu D,Xu Y,Zhao J,Wang Z

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00