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Brain perfusion SPECT with 99mTC-ECD and serum neuron-specific enolase in patients with spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage and clinical vasospasm
(2006)
Aim: To estimate the association between single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging and neuro-specific enolase (NSE) serum level measurement in patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) and also to present ...
Vinblastine and interferon-gamma combination with and without 13-cis retinoic acid for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma: Results of two phase II clinical trials
(2002)
Background: The aim of this study is firstly to determine the response rates and toxicity of two regimens containing vinblastine (VBL) in combination with interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) in the treatment of patients with advanced ...
Original article: Subsets of tumors responsive to cisplatin or carboplatin combinations in patients with carcinoma of unknown primary site: A hellenic cooperative oncology group study
(1992)
Summary: In this retrospective analysis 48 patients with metastatic undifferentiated carcinoma, adenocarcinoma and epidermoid carcimona of unknown origin were studied. The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate both the ...
Sense of Coherence and Defense Style Predict Sleep Difficulties in Early Non-metastatic Colorectal Cancer
(2016)
Background: Sleep disturbances are common in cancer patients, but little is known about the complex interplay between the background psychological profile, coping with health stressors capacities and psychological distress ...
Prevention of chemotherapy-induced alopecia using an effective scalp cooling system
(2000)
Alopecia is a distressing side-effect of cancer treatment. Taxanes (TX), anthracyclines (ANR) and etoposide (ET) have been consistently associated with significant alopecia. We studied an effective scalp cooling system, ...
Impact of ACE and ApoE polymorphisms on myocardial perfusion: Correlation with myocardial single photon emission computed tomographic imaging
(2009)
Coronary artery disease is associated with multiple genetic and environmental risk factors. In this study, we evaluated the correlation of angiotensin l-converting enzyme (ACE) (I/D) and ApoE gene polymorphisms (E2, E3, ...
Multiple-treatments meta-analysis of chemotherapy and targeted therapies in advanced breast cancer
(2008)
Background: Many systemic nonhormonal regimens have been evaluated across several hundreds of randomized trials in advanced breast cancer. We aimed to quantify the relative merits of these regimens in prolonging survival. ...
Prognostic factors in glioblastoma patients managed with radiotherapy combined with temozolomide
(2014)
Purpose: No consensus on clinicopathologic prognostic factors that predict the outcome of patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) managed with resection, postoperative radiotherapy (RT) and adjuvant ...
The beneficial effect of tamoxifen on serum lipoprotein-a levels: An additional anti-atherogenic property
(1996)
It has recently been suggested that increased lipoprotein (a) levels are an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease. It has also been reported that tamoxifen can induce changes in blood lipid values. In this ...
Local immune response after intravesical interferon gamma in superficial bladder cancer
(1998)
To investigate the lymphocyte subpopulations (T4, T8 and macrophages) and major histocompatibility (MHC) II antigens in patients with superficial bladder cancer before and after intravesicai instillations of recombinant ...