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Combination chemotherapy with cisplatin and/or doxorubicin in malignant mesothelioma. A prospective study
(1997)
From June 1984 to October 1995, forty seven consecutive patients (pts) with a confirmed diagnosis of diffuse malignant mesothelioma (MM) of the pleura (41) and peritoneum (6), were treated with cisplatin (CDDP) (24 pts) ...
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, ...
Regulation of macrophage tumoricidal function: a role for prostaglandins of the E series
(1978)
Exogenously added prostaglandins E1 and E2, but not F2alpha, inhibited the tumoricidal activity of interferon-activated macrophages of mice. A role for adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in modulating macrophage ...