Browsing by Author "Petrakis, Dimitrios"
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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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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors during pregnancy: a systematic review of an uncommon but treatable malignancy
Zarkavelis, George; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2015)Although modern social structure and medical advances have led to the increasing number of women childbearing in older age, cancer remains a rare diagnosis during pregnancy. There is little given information throughout the ...
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Long-term survivors among patients with cancer of unknown primary
Pavlidis, Nicholas; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Golfinopoulos, Vassilis; Pentheroudakis, George (2012)There is a general conception among oncologists that CUP patients behave poorly to treatment and carry a dismal survival. In this paper we are trying to elucidate the different groups of CUP patients and to describe in ...
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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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Management of patients with recurrent/advanced cervical cancer beyond first line platinum regimens: Where do we stand? A literature review
Boussios, Stergios; Seraj, E.; Zarkavelis, George; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Kollas, Aristomenes; Kafantari, Aikaterini; Assi, A.; Tatsi, K.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (2016)Background Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer affecting women worldwide. Despite advances in screening and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, a significant number of women present with or develop advanced ...
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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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Profiling immunohistochemical expression of NOTCH1-3, JAGGED1, cMET, and phospho-MAPK in 100 carcinomas of unknown primary
Krikelis, D.; Pentheroudakis, George; Goussia, Anna; Siozopoulou, V.; Bobos, M.; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Stoyianni, A.; Golfinopoulos, Vassilis; Cervantes, A.; Ciuleanu, T.; Fountzilas, George; Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki D.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (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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Prognostication in cancer of unknown primary (CUP): Development of a prognostic algorithm in 311 cases and review of the literature
Petrakis, Dimitrios; Pentheroudakis, George; Voulgaris, E.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (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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Psychiatric manifestations, personality traits and health-related quality of life in cancer of unknown primary site
Hyphantis, T.; Papadimitriou, I.; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Fountzilas, George; Repana, D.; Assimakopoulos, K.; Carvalho, A. F.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (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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An unusual presentation of a patient with advanced prostate cancer, massive ascites and peritoneal metastasis: Case report and literature review
Petrakis, Dimitrios; Pentheroudakis, George; Kamina, S.; Pappa, L.; Papadiotis, E.; Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki D.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2015)We describe the case of a patient with prostate cancer, ascites, omental and bone metastases, an extremely rare clinical variant that warrants further investigation, and review the relevant literature. © 2014.