abstract：:Until now, no effective systemic treatment options have been available for patients with unresectable advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In the Sorafenib Hepatocellular Carcinoma Assessment Randomized Protocol (SHARP), patients with unresectable advanced HCC with Child-Pugh liver function class A and who had not...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Rimassa L,Santoro A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) recommendations on the management of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) have recently been updated. Imatinib 400 mg/day remains the standard first-line treatment for patients with metastatic GIST. Mutational analysis has received a strong recommendation for diagnosti...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Blay JY,Reichardt P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) represents a powerful advance in the planning and delivery of radiation therapy owing to its ability to deliver highly conformal treatment doses while sparing normal tissues. Dosimetric studies have shown the feasibility and theoretical benefit of treating with IMRT over 3D...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Bockbrader M,Kim E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total mesorectal excision has been established as a standard surgical procedure for rectal cancer. MRI is now routinely used for preoperative staging of rectal cancer and provides accurate assessment of the tumor relative to the circumferential margin, that is, the mesorectal fascia. This identifies patients at risk o...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Jhaveri KS,Sadaf A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing by 4% per year. Thyroid cancer has become the eighth most common malignancy diagnosed in women. Papillary cancer accounts for 80% of all thyroid cancer. The management of papillary thyroid cancer is challenging, primarily because there have been no prospective randomized t...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Rosenbaum MA,McHenry CR

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testicular germ cell tumors are the most frequent solid tumor to affect young adult males and are increasing in incidence for reasons that are poorly understood. Increasingly, patients present with localized disease where disease-specific survival approaches 100%. Even in the presence of metastatic disease, the majori...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Gilbert DC,Van As NJ,Huddart RA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer immunotherapy aims at eliciting an immune response directed against tumor antigens to help fight off residual tumor cells and, thereby, improve the survival and quality of life of cancer patients. Different immunotherapeutic approaches share the use of dendritic cells (DCs) to present tumor-associated antigens ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Tyagi RK,Mangal S,Garg N,Sharma PK

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of renal tumors has evolved rapidly over the last two decades, with the ascendance of nephron-sparing surgery (NSS), largely spurred by the increased incidental detection of small renal masses (SRMs) and evidence that preservation of renal parenchyma reduces the risk of chronic kidney disease. The field...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Nguyen CT,Campbell SC

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer is evolving. Although the advent of new chemotherapeutic and biologic agents has certainly improved the outlook for many patients, surgical resection in certain subsets of patients with advanced colorectal cancer is the only chance for long-term survival. Traditionally, pa...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Shen P,Stewart JH,Levine EA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic viruses are novel anticancer agents, currently under investigation in Phase I-III clinical trials. Until recently, most studies have focused on the direct antitumor properties of these viruses, although there is now an increasing body of evidence that the host immune response may be critical to the efficacy ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Prestwich RJ,Harrington KJ,Pandha HS,Vile RG,Melcher AA,Errington F

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tamoxifen has been shown to reduce the incidence of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer by approximately 50% in high-risk women. Similar results are seen for raloxifene, but it has a more favorable side-effect profile. Data on contralateral tumors from women in adjuvant trials treated with aromatase inhibitors su...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Cuzick J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is necessary for the development of prostate cancer. Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer was described over 50 years ago and ADT remains the mainstay of systemic therapy. AR signaling remains intact as the disease evolves to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Taplin ME

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic chemotherapy provides improvement in both survival and quality of life for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Docetaxel is the only agent currently approved for both first- and second-line treatment of advanced NSCLC. Multiple randomized clinical trials have established the efficacy of...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Saloustros E,Georgoulias V

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cancer risk after renal transplantation is believed to be a consequence of continuous immunosuppression. However, the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) after renal transplantation is controversial and has received limited study. Accumulating evidence suggests that colon and rectal cancers have different charac...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Kan M,Gill JS,Wiseman SM

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alemtuzumab (Campath, MabCampath) is a humanized therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb) that recognizes the CD52 antigen expressed on normal and neoplastic lymphoid cells. This mAb is active in previously treated patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) refractory to alkylating agents and purine nucleo...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Robak T

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For most sporadic cancers, genetic susceptibility results from the additive effect of multiple genetic variants, each of which contributes a modest risk individually. The study of genetic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) may help explain the differences in individual cancer susceptibility and may assist in ident...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Meyer LA,Westin SN,Lu KH,Milam MR

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, cytokine therapy has been the only validated option for patients with advanced renal cancer. IFN-alpha is one of very few treatments that have demonstrated improved median survival compared with the appropriate control. In patients with synchronous metastases at diagnosis, debulking nephrectomy prior t...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Coppin C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of clinical trials over the past 15 years demonstrate that the taxanes are among the most effective new class of cytotoxic drugs to treat breast cancer and other solid tumors. Moreover, the efficacy of the taxanes added further credence to the relevance of the microtubule as a tumor target. In spite of the sig...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Higa GM,Abraham J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematologic malignancy with a peak incidence over the age of 55 years. AML of older patients is less curable with conventional chemotherapy, and, when it relapses, is almost uniformly fatal. Novel treatments hold the promise of improving the results of therapy, but have failed so far ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Lekakis L,de Lima M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the advent of rationally designed targeted antineoplastic therapies, cladribine was identified as a lymphocyte-specific cytotoxic agent. Cladribine is a purine nucleoside analogue that is resistant to cellular catabolism. Through diverse mechanisms, cladribine is equally toxic to dividing and nondividing cells,...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Sigal DS,Saven A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the USA. Although there have been major improvements in surgical and radiation techniques, the overall survival has not changed significantly in the last decade. The major changes occurring in recent years have been in the ability to preserve organs and to improv...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Popovtzer A,Eisbruch A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ductal carcinoma in situ is a premalignant disease of the breast with a rapidly rising incidence. For women with localized ductal carcinoma in situ, randomized trials have shown that radiation therapy following conservative surgery lowers the relative risk of progression to invasive disease by 60%. Therefore, followin...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Smith BD,Smith GL,Buchholz TA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard of care in the management of the axilla for a woman with breast cancer was traditionally a level I and II axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). Since the pivotal studies in the mid-1990s, sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in breast carcinoma has come to replace ALND in women with clinically negative axil...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Greenberg CC,Bafford AC,Golshan M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) remains a major source of cancer morbidity and mortality, despite advances in surgical and chemotherapeutic management. The molecular pathways that control angiogenesis have been demonstrated to be key to the pathogenesis of EOC, and have been shown to have prognostic significance. Incr...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Collinson FJ,Hall GD,Perren TJ,Jayson GC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain tumors are the most common cause of cancer-related death and the second most common form of cancer in pediatric patients. Many of these tumors are treated primarily with surgery, either alone or in combination with radiation or chemotherapy. Recent advances have lead to greater survival and decreased morbidities...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Heuer GG,Jackson EM,Magge SN,Storm PB

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibody against HER2, trastuzumab (Herceptin), has become an important player in the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. Both in the metastatic and adjuvant setting, the addition of trastuzumab to other systemic treatments has led to a striking increase in tumor response and surviva...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Perik PJ,de Korte MA,van Veldhuisen DJ,Gietema JA,Sleijfer DT,de Vries EG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defined by its high level of accuracy and rapid radiation dose fall-off, radiosurgery has emerged as an effective radiation technique over the past few decades. Although it was once limited to conditions of the brain, head and neck regions, technological advances in computing and imaging have allowed the application o...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Hara W,Soltys SG,Gibbs IC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients has not dramatically improved over the last 30 years, despite the advances in surgical techniques, chemotherapeutic agents and radiotherapy treatment planning and definition. Different studies in molecular biology of HNC have been carried out, providing useful results fo...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Bossi P,Locati LD,Licitra L

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia is a frequent problem in cancer patients, especially in those treated with chemotherapy, and has an important negative impact on quality of life. Red blood cell transfusions provide clear but rather temporary comfort. The development of erythropoietic stimulating agents (ESAs) led to a more durable anemia treat...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Vansteenkiste J,Wauters I

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 25% of breast cancer patients without lymph node metastases develop systemic relapse. A growing body of data supports the notion that hematogenous dissemination of breast cancer cells occurs independently of lymphatic spread of disease; however, current clinical practice does not involve routine analysis...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Lang JE,Hall CS,Singh B,Lucci A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes the safety of sorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, focusing on the randomized, placebo-controlled, Phase III Treatment Approaches in Renal Cancer Global Evaluation Trial (TARGET) in renal cell carcinoma, which formed the basis of the approval of sorafenib. Similar to other targeted agents, ...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Hutson TE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare disorder with a prevalence of one case per 1.7 million people and a generally poor prognosis. It accounts for 0.02% of all cancer cases and 0.2% of cancer deaths. Within the past three decades, accurate diagnosis, precise radiologic localization, satisfactory preoperative medical man...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Haleblian GE,Wilson C,Haddad D,Albala DM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with unilateral breast cancer are at increased risk of developing a second cancer in the contralateral breast. Some women choose contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) to prevent cancer in the contralateral breast. Several studies have demonstrated that CPM significantly decreases the occurrence of contr...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Tuttle T,Habermann E,Abraham A,Emory T,Virnig B

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:En bloc removal of the prostate has traditionally been an integral component of radical cystectomy for men with bladder cancer owing to a high incidence of occult prostatic malignancy. However, the risk of functional morbidity following this procedure is considerable and can delay patient acceptance of cystectomy, whi...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Kefer JC,Cherullo EE,Jones JS,Gong MC,Campbell SC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capecitabine is an oral prodrug of 5-fluorouracil. It is being increasingly used in the treatment of colorectal cancer in both the adjuvant and metastatic settings. This review aims to explore the data in relation to the pharmacology and mode of action of capecitabine, followed by an in-depth review of the available c...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Kelly C,Cassidy J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse brain stem glioma is the most devastating of pediatric malignancies. Virtually all children with this disease die within 1-2 years of diagnosis. After three decades of exhaustive research, the key to controlling this malignancy still eludes us. Attempts to improve survival using radiation, chemotherapy and bio...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Korones DN

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcomes in colorectal cancer have improved over the last 15 years; this is in part due to the optimization of 5-fluorouracil schedules and the introduction of new and effective chemotherapeutic agents, such as irinotecan and oxaliplatin. However, not all patients respond to these agents and a proportion may suffer se...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Braun MS,Quirke P,Seymour MT

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is an effective treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma. Treatment outcome is better among patients who demonstrate sensitivity to salvage chemotherapy. Approximately half of the patients undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation will be cured a...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Murphy F,Sirohi B,Cunningham D

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi sarcoma is the most common cancer among HIV-infected individuals and one of the most common cancers in sub-Saharan Africa. Kaposi sarcoma lesions are highly vascularized, and comprised of spindle-shaped tumor cells. Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus is etiologically linked to Kaposi sarcoma development and encodes gen...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Hansen A,Boshoff C,Lagos D

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of renal cell cancer is increasing and surgery is the only curative treatment for patients presenting with localized disease at diagnosis. The treatment of metastatic renal cell cancer is palliative and, until recently, immunotherapy has been the standard treatment approach with response rates between 10...

journal_title：Expert review of anticancer therapy

authors： Gore ME,Harrison ML,Montes A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00