Browsing by Author "Aravantinos, Gerasimos"
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Advanced stage clear-cell epithelial ovarian cancer: The Hellenic cooperative oncology group experience
Pectasides, Dimitrios; Fountzilas, George; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Kalofonos, H. P.; Efstathiou, E.; Farmakis, D.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Economopoulos, T.; Dimopoulos, M. A. (2006)Purpose.: Ovarian clear-cell carcinomas (OCCC) are known to be possibly resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis with respect to other subtypes of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). This study ...
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Anthracycline-based chemotherapy of primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the testis: The Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group experience
Pectasides, Dimitrios; Economopoulos, T.; Kouvatseas, G.; Antoniou, A.; Zoumbos, Z.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Tsatalas, C.; Halikia, A.; Nikolaides, C.; Kiamouris, Ch; Pappa, E.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Fountzilas, George; Dimopoulos, M. A. (2000)Testicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is an uncommon disease and its outcome following chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy has been variable. A retrospective analysis was performed on 26 patients with primary testicular lymphoma ...
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Brain metastases from epithelial ovarian cancer. The Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) experience and review of the literature
Pectasides, Dimitrios; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Fountzilas, George; Kalofonos, H. P.; Efstathiou, E.; Karina, M.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Farmakis, D.; Economopoulos, T.; Dimopoulos, M. A. (2005)Background: Brain metastases from epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) are rare. A retrospective study of all patients diagnosed with brain metastases from EOC over the last 20 years, according to the Hellenic Cooperative ...
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Carboplatin alone compared with its combination with epirubicin and cyclophosphamide in untreated advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: A hellenic co-operative oncology group study
Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Gennatas, Constantinos; Beer, M.; Mylonakis, N.; Makrantonakis, P.; Klouvas, G. D.; Karpathios, S.; Linardou, H.; Konstantaras, C.; Fountzilas, George (1996)We compared, in a multicentric randomised prospective study, the efficacy and toxicity of carboplatin 400 mg/m2 as a single agent (CB) to a combination of carboplatin 300 mg/m2, epirubicin 50 mg/m2 and cyclophosphamide 500 ...
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Current management of stage I testicular non-seminomatous germ cell tumours
Pectasides, Dimitrios; Pectasides, E.; Constantinidou, Anastasia; Aravantinos, Gerasimos (2009)Testicular germ cell tumors represent the most common malignancies in young males between the ages of 15 and 35; 50% of those with non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCT) have clinical stage I at diagnosis. Predictors ...
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Docetaxel and gemcitabine in anthracycline-resistant advanced breast cancer: A hellenic cooperative oncology group phase II study
Fountzilas, George; Nikolaides, C.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Kalogera-Fountzila, Anna; Kalofonos, H. P.; Samelis, G.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2000)A phase II study was conducted to evaluate the activity and toxicity profile of the combination of docetaxel and gemcitabine in anthracycline- resistant advanced breast cancer (ABC). Thirty-nine eligible patients with a ...
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Dose-dense adjuvant chemotherapy with epirubicin monotherapy in patients with operable breast cancer and ≥ 10 positive axillary lymph nodes
Fountzilas, George; Nikolaides, C.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Papakostas, P.; Stathopoulos, G. P.; Kontostolis, E.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1998)Forty-one patients with operable breast cancer and ≥ 10 positive axillary lymph nodes were treated with 6 cycles of dose-dense adjuvant chemotherapy consisting of epirubicin (100 mg/m2) every 2 weeks with G-CSF support. A ...
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Dose-dense sequential adjuvant chemotherapy with epirubicin, paclitaxel and CMF in high-risk breast cancer
Fountzilas, George; Papadimitriou, C.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Nikolaides, C.; Stathopoulos, G. P.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Kalofonos, H. P.; Economopoulos, T.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Dimopoulos, M. A. (2001)Dose-dense sequential chemotherapy appears to be a promising approach in the management of patients with operable breast cancer. We evaluated the tolerability of such a novel chemotherapeutic regimen in high-risk patients. ...
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Dose-dense sequential chemotherapy with epirubicin and paclitaxel versus the combination, as first-line chemotherapy, in advanced breast cancer: A randomized study conducted by the hellenic cooperative oncology group
Fountzilas, George; Papadimitriou, C.; Dafni, U.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Moulopoulos, L. A.; Razi, E. D.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Papakostas, P.; Abela, K.; Gogas, H.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Dimopoulos, M. A. (2001)Purpose: To compare the efficacy of two different schedules of epirubicin and paclitaxel, as first-line chemotherapy, in patients with advanced breast cancer (ABC). Patients and Methods: From October 1997 until May 1999, ...
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Epithelial ovarian cancer in Greece: A retrospective study of 1,791 patients by the hellenic cooperative oncology group (HeCOG)
Pectasides, Dimitrios; Papaxoinis, G.; Fountzilas, George; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Bamias, A. T.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Kalofonos, H. P.; Timotheadou, E.; Samantas, E.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Economopoulos, T.; Dimopoulos, M. A. (2009)Background: The aim of this retrospective study was to present the epidemiological, pathological and clinical characteristics and treatment results of Greek women with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Patients and Methods: ...
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Favorable outcome of ovarian germ cell malignancies treated with cisplatin or carboplatin-based chemotherapy: A hellenic cooperative oncology group study
Dimopoulos, M. A.; Papadopoulou, M.; Andreopoulou, E.; Papadimitriou, C.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Aspropotamitis, A.; Anagnostopoulos, A.; Fountzilas, George; Michalas, S.; Pectasides, Dimitrios (1998)Purpose. To evaluate the outcome and the prognosis of patients with ovarian germ cell malignancies who were treated with platinum-based chemotherapy immediately after initial surgery. Methods. We conducted a retrospective ...
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First-line chemotherapy with paclitaxel by three-hour infusion and carboplatin in advanced breast cancer (final report): A phase II study conducted by the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group
Fountzilas, George; Dimopoulos, M. A.; Papadimitriou, C.; Kalogera-Fountzila, Anna; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Athanasiades, A.; Nikolaides, C.; Keramopoulos, A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V. (1998)Purpose: To evaluate the activity and toxicity of the combination of paclitaxel given by three-hour infusion, and carboplatin as first- line chemotherapy in patients with advanced breast cancer (ABC). Background: Paclitaxel ...
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Fluorouracil and leucovorin with or without interferon alfa-2a as adjuvant treatment, in patients with high-risk colon cancer. A randomized phase III study conducted by the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group
Fountzilas, George; Zisiadis, A.; Dafni, U.; Konstantaras, C.; Hatzitheoharis, G.; Papavramidis, S.; Bousoulegas, A.; Basdanis, G.; Giannoulis, E.; Dokmetzioglou, J.; Katsohis, C.; Nenopoulou, E.; Karvounis, N.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2000)Background: It has been shown in randomized studies that adjuvant treatment with the combination of fluorouracil (FU) and levamisole reduced the risk of recurrence and deaths of patients with stage III colon cancer. ...
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Gemcitabine plus pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer resistant/refractory to platinum and/or taxanes. A HeCOG phase II study
Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Fountzilas, George; Dimopoulos, M. A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Razi, E. D.; Economopoulos, T.; Pectasides, Dimitrios; Gogas, H.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Klouvas, G. D.; Kyratzis, G.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos (2005)Background: A phase II study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of the combination of gemcitabine (GEM) and pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) in patients with platinum- and/or taxane-resistant/refractory ...
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Ifosfamide plus oral etoposide salvage chemotherapy for platinum- resistant paclitaxel-pretreated ovarian cancer
Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Dimopoulos, M. A.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Papadimitriou, C.; Kiamouris, Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Sikiotis, K.; Papakostas, P.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V. (2000)Background: The prognosis of platinum resistant ovarian cancer is very poor and the treatment of choice has not been clearly defined. Patients and methods: We conducted a phase II study with the combination of ifosfamide ...
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Improved outcome of high-risk early HER2 positive breast cancer with high CXCL13-CXCR5 messenger RNA expression
Razi, E. D.; Kalogeras, K. T.; Kotoula, V.; Eleftheraki, A. G.; Nikitas, N.; Kronenwett, R.; Timotheadou, E.; Christodoulou, C.; Pectasides, Dimitrios; Gogas, H.; Wirtz, R. M.; Makatsoris, T.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Televantou, D.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fountzilas, George (2012)Background: Chemokines are important in cell migration and are thought to play a key role in metastasis. We explored the prognostic significance of C-X-C ligand-motif (CXCL) 12, CXCL13, and receptor (CXCR) 5 on disease-free ...
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KRAS, NRAS and BRAF mutations in Greek and Romanian patients with colorectal cancer: A cohort study
Negru, S.; Papadopoulou, E.; Apessos, A.; Stanculeanu, D. L.; Ciuleanu, E.; Volovat, C.; Croitoru, A.; Kakolyris, S.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Ziras, N.; Athanasiadis, E.; Touroutoglou, N.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Kalofonos, H. P.; Nasioulas, G. (2014)Objectives: Treatment decision-making in colorectal cancer is often guided by tumour tissue molecular analysis. The aim of this study was the development and validation of a high-resolution melting (HRM) method for the ...
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Megestrol acetate in cancer patients with anorexia and weight loss a hellenic co-operative oncology group (heCOG) study
Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Fountzilas, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Beer, M.; Makrantonakis, P.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Pantelakos, P.; Tsavaris, N.; Karpasitis, N.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A. (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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Multicenter phase-II trial of irinotecan plus oxaliplatin [IROX regimen] in patients with poor-prognosis cancer of unknown primary: A hellenic cooperative oncology group study
Briassoulis, E. Ch; Fountzilas, George; Bamias, A. T.; Dimopoulos, M. A.; Xiros, N.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Samantas, E.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Makatsoris, T.; Mylonakis, N.; Papakostas, P.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Varthalitis, I.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2008)Background: Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) lacks established therapy although it affects 3% of cancer patients. We evaluated the irinotecan- oxaliplatin combination (IROX regimen) in previously untreated patients with ...
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Paclitaxel and gemcitabine vs. paclitaxel and pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in advanced non-nasopharyngeal head and neck cancer. An efficacy and cost analysis randomized study conducted by the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group
Fountzilas, George; Papakostas, P.; Dafni, U.; Makatsoris, T.; Karina, M.; Kalogera-Fountzila, Anna; Maniadakis, N.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Syrigos, K.; Bamias, A. T.; Christodoulou, C.; Economopoulos, T.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Nikolaou, A.; Angouridakis, N.; Stathopoulos, G. P.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Daniilidis, J. (2006)Background: The prognosis of patients with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer (HNC) is poor. Median survival of these patients following chemotherapy is in the range of 6 to 9 months. In the present randomized ...