Browsing by Subject "Overall survival"
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Optimal therapeutic management of patients with distinct clinicopathological cancer of unknown primary subsets
(2012)Cancer of unknown primary sites (CUP) is a compilation of various malignant entities-the majority of which behave aggressively and carry poor prognosis. CUP is classified into two different clinicopathological groups: the ...
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Palliative chemotherapy in elderly patients with common metastatic malignancies: A Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group registry analysis of management, outcome and clinical benefit predictors
(2008)Introduction: Cancer in the elderly is a common health issue in developed societies. We sought to present epidemiology, management and outcome data on fit elderly patients with common metastatic cancers and to identify ...
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Positive urinary cytology in patients with lung cancer in the absence of obvious urine tract metastases
(2011)Purpose: To study the phenomenon of positive urine cytology in patients with lung cancer in the absence of obvious urothelial metastases. Patients and methods: 150 patients with small (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer ...
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A pregnant patient with adrenocortical carcinoma: Case report
(2012)Background: Coexistence of an adrenocortical carcinoma and pregnancy is extremely rare with only 25 described cases so far, and has a poor prognosis. Case Report: We report the case of a 28-year-old patient with adrenocortical ...
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Presentation, management and outcome of 32 patients with pregnancy-associated breast cancer: A matched controlled study
(2009)Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is a rare and challenging problem. We sought to describe epidemiology, management and outcome of women in whom breast cancer was diagnosed during pregnancy or within one year after ...
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Primary gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: A clinicopathologic study of 128 cases in Greece. A Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group study (HeCOG)
(2006)The aim of this retrospective study was to illustrate the clinicopathologic data and the treatment results in patients with primary gastrointestinal tract non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (GI NHL). Among 810 patients with NHL, 128 ...
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Profiling immunohistochemical expression of NOTCH1-3, JAGGED1, cMET, and phospho-MAPK in 100 carcinomas of unknown primary
(2012)Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a heterogeneous entity, managed on the basis of "one size fits all" therapeutic concepts; insights into the molecular biology of CUP are urgently needed. We retrospectively examined the ...
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Prognosis of pregnancy-associated breast cancer: A meta-analysis of 30 studies
(2012)Background: Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is relatively rare with considerable controversy regarding its prognosis. Patients & methods: Two of the authors independently performed a literature search with no ...
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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 ...
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Prognostic significance of RACGAP1 mRNA expression in high-risk early breast cancer: A study in primary tumors of breast cancer patients participating in a randomized Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group trial
(2013)Purpose: RACGAP1 is a Rac GTPase-activating protein involved in cell growth regulation, cell transformation and metastasis. The aim of the present study was to explore the prognostic and/or predictive significance of RACGAP1 ...
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Prognostic significance of UBE2C mRNA expression in high-risk early breast cancer. A hellenic cooperative oncology group (HECOG) study
(2012)Background: The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) plays a pivotal role in tumorigenesis. Components of the UPS have recently been implicated in breast cancer progression. In the present study, we sought to explore the ...
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Prognostic significance of WNT and hedgehog pathway activation markers in cancer of unknown primary
(2015)Background: Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) possesses distinct biology and peculiar natural history, in which the roles of the winged and hedgehog signalling pathways are unclear. Materials and methods: We constructed ...
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Prognostic utility of angiogenesis and hypoxia effectors in patients with operable squamous cell cancer of the larynx
(2012)Angiogenesis is active in localised laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. We assessed relative messenger RNA (mRNA) and immunohistochemical (IHC) expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors (VEGF) A, B, C, their receptors ...
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Prognostic utility of β-tubulin isotype III and correlations with other molecular and clinicopathological variables in patients with early breast cancer: A translational Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) study
(2011)We evaluated the prognostic and predictive utility of β-tubulin isotype III (TUBB3) tumour gene transcription in early breast cancer patients enrolled in a randomised study. Quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase ...
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Prognostication in cancer of unknown primary (CUP): Development of a prognostic algorithm in 311 cases and review of the literature
(2013)Background: CUP represents a heterogeneous population of patients with systemic malignancy and variable outcomes. Identification of clinical, pathologic and laboratory parameters with prognostic utility could contribute ...
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Safety of pregnancy following breast cancer diagnosis: A meta-analysis of 14 studies
(2011)Background: Due to the rising trend of delaying pregnancy to later in life, more women are diagnosed with breast cancer before completing their families. Therefore, enquiry into the feasibility and safety of pregnancy ...
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Serous papillary peritoneal carcinoma: Unknown primary tumour, ovarian cancer counterpart or a distinct entity? A systematic review
(2010)Introduction: Serous peritoneal papillary carcinoma (SPPC), though managed according to ovarian cancer therapeutic principles, has been variably considered as an ovarian cancer counterpart, a peritoneal malignancy with ...
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Transcriptional activity of human epidermal growth factor receptor family and angiogenesis effectors in locoregionally recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and correlation with patient outcome
(2009)Locoregional recurrence is the most common failure pattern in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). We retrospectively identified 41 HNSCC patients with locoregional relapse and used kinetic reverse ...
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Treatment for Patients With Unknown Primary Carcinoma and Unfavorable Prognostic Factors
(2009)The treatment for patients with unknown primary carcinoma, particularly those with unfavorable prognosis factors, has changed in the last decade, and continues to evolve. Empiric chemotherapy trials reported since 2000 ...