Browsing by Subject "Cancer"
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Interactions of hydroxycarbamide (Hydroxyurea) with Iron and copper: Implications on toxicity and therapeutic strategies
(2011)Presented at the 19th International Conference on Chelation, London, UK, 13-16 November 2009Preliminary spectrophotometric and potentiometric studies have shown that hydroxycarbamide or hydroxyurea (HU) can interact with ...
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Is androgen substitution necessary in hypogonadal patients when they are treated with chemotherapy for malignant diseases?
(1989)A patient with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism owing to endogenous gonadotropin releasing hormone deficiency, who developed Hodgkin's disease is described. Chemotherapy administration caused prolonged and life‐threatening ...
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Juvenile cancer: Improving care for adolescents and young adults within the frame of medical oncology
(2005)Despite unique tumour epidemiology, a higher cancer incidence and modest survival improvement compared to paediatric patients, adolescents and young adults aged 15-30 have not been considered as a separate, 'special' group ...
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«Juvenile» oncology - A missing subspecialty. The experience of a reference cancer centre
(2006)Introduction: Despite unique tumor epidemiology and a higher cancer incidence compared to pediatric patients, adolescents and young adults have not been receiving specialized, multidisciplinary, centralized care. In an ...
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Late toxicity in survivors from adolescent cancers
(2007)Nowadays three quarters of adolescents with cancer are cured but half of them experience a late toxic effect of antineoplastic therapy that interferes with their physical and psychosocial health. This review recapitulates ...
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Levels of absolute survival benefit for systemic therapies of advanced cancer: A call for standards
(2003)Research on systemic interventions in patients with advanced stage malignancies should be systematised with an emphasis on the absolute gain in survival for the median patient. Such information is most meaningful with ...
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Megestrol acetate in cancer patients with anorexia and weight loss a hellenic co-operative oncology group (heCOG) study
(1993)Fifty-two patients with hormone-independent cancer, who complained of anorexia and of weight loss with at least 10% received megestrol acetate (MA), 480 mg daily, during 1-21 weeks. of the 41 patients treated during 4 weeks ...
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A mini review on cancer of unknown primary site: A clinical puzzle for the oncologists
(2015)Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a well recognized clinical syndrome, accounting for 3-5% of all malignancies. It is characterized as a disease with an early dissemination of metastases without a primary detected site ...
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A mini review on pregnant mothers with cancer: A paradoxical coexistence
(2016)The diagnosis of cancer during pregnancy at least in the Western world is a rare phenomenon, but this might be raised into the future due to late pregnancies in the modern societies. The coexistence of pregnancy and cancer ...
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Mitoxantrone (novantrone*) as single agent and in combination chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced breast cancer
(1983)Nineteen out of 62 evaluable patients with advanced breast cancer achieved an objective tumour response to mitoxantrone (31%) given in a dose of 12-14 mg/m2 by i.v. infusion repeated at 3-weekly intervals. The response ...
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Model organisms in inflammation and cancer
(Frontiers Media SA, 2014)
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Mouse models for papillomavirus-mediated phenotypes
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2018-07)Οι HPV έχουν συσχετιστεί με την ανάπτυξη της πλειονότητας των καρκίνων του τραχήλου της μήτρας, καθώς και με ένα υποσύνολο καρκίνου κεφαλής και λαιμού, καρκίνο του δέρματος και άλλων καρκίνων της γενετικής περιοχής. Στόχος ...
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Old habits die hard: Chest radiography for screening purposes in primary care
(2006)Objective: To assess whether the use of chest radiography for screening changes over time. Design: Systematic review. Data Sources: MEDLINE, ISI, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and handsearching of selected ...
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Oncology for medical students:. A European School of Oncology contribution to undergraduate cancer education
(2007)Worldwide undergraduate cancer medicine is taught in a non-unanimous manner. There are frequent overlaps, omissions and discrepancies in the curricula of different medical schools concerning oncology teaching. Various ...
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Perspectives for targeted therapies in cancer of unknown primary site
(2006)Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) ranks as the fourth most common cause of cancer deaths. Regression of the primary, early development of systemic metastases and resistance to therapy are hallmarks of this heterogeneous ...
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Potent inhibitors of human LAT1 (SLC7A5) transporter based on dithiazole and dithiazine compounds for development of anticancer drugs
(2017)The LAT1 transporter is acknowledged as a pharmacological target of tumours since it is strongly overexpressed in many human cancers. The purpose of this work was to find novel compounds exhibiting potent and prolonged ...
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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, ...
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Psychiatric manifestations, personality traits and health-related quality of life in cancer of unknown primary site
(2013)Objective Psychiatric manifestations and personality traits are known to influence cancer patients. We aimed to assess psychological distress symptoms, psychosocial factors and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in ...
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Ras-oncogenic Drosophila hindgut but not midgut cells use an inflammation-like program to disseminate to distant sites
(2013)The gastrointestinal tract is habitable by a variety of microorganisms and it is often a tissue inflicted by inflammation. Much discussion is raised in recent years about the role of microbiota in intestinal inflammation, ...