Browsing by Author "Fotopoulos, George"
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Bone and soft tissue sarcomas during pregnancy: A narrative review of the literature
Zarkavelis, George; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Fotopoulos, George; Mitrou, Sotirios; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2016)Bone or soft tissue sarcomas are rarely diagnosed during pregnancy. Until today 137 well documented cases have been reported in the English literature between 1963 and 2014. Thirty-eight pregnant mothers were diagnosed ...
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Lung cancer during pregnancy: A narrative review
Mitrou, Sotirios; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Fotopoulos, George; Zarkavelis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2016)Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths in males for decades, has recently become one of commonest causes for women too. As women delay the start of their family, the co-existence of cancer and pregnancy is ...
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A mini review on pregnant mothers with cancer: A paradoxical coexistence
Mitrou, Sotirios; Zarkavelis, George; Fotopoulos, George; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Pavlidis, Nicholas (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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Neuroendocrine cell carcinoma of unknown primary arising in long standing history of multiple sclerosis
Boussios, Stergios; Kostadima, Vasiliki; Batistatou, Anna; Toumpoulis, Ioannis K.; Fotopoulos, George; Argyropoulou, Maria I.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2015)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that targets myelinated axons in the central nervous system (CNS). Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is a well-recognised clinical disorder, accounting for 3-5% ...
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A patient with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the urinary bladder and paraneoplastic degenerative parencephalitis: A case report and review of the literature
Fotopoulos, George; Pentheroudakis, George; Ioachim, E.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2014)Neuroendocrine carcinomas of the bladder (small cell, large cell, typical and atypical carcinoids) are rare and usually co exist with urothelial carcinoma. As in small cell carcinoma of the lung, various paraneoplastic ...
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Prognostic significance of WNT and hedgehog pathway activation markers in cancer of unknown primary
Fotopoulos, George; Goussia, Anna; Bareta, E.; Koumpis, E.; Chrisafi, S.; Bobos, M.; Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki D.; Fountzilas, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (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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The role of human papilloma virus and p16 in occult primary of the head and neck: A comprehensive review of the literature
Fotopoulos, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2015)Cancer of unknown primary of the head and neck is a challenging entity for the oncologist. The role of human papilloma virus/p16 in carcinogenesis and in prognosis is well established in certain HNSCC especially in that ...