Browsing by Subject "Adjuvant therapy"

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Cancer, fertility and pregnancy: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

Pentheroudakis, George; Orecchia, R.; Hoekstra, H. J.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2010)

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Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP)

Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fizazi, K. (2009)

Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) is one of the 10 most frequent cancers worldwide. It constitutes 3-5% of all human malignancies. Patients with CUP present with metastases without an established primary site. CUP manifests ...

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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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Effects of hormonal treatment on lipids in patients with cancer

Filippatos, T. D.; Liberopoulos, E. N.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Elisaf, Moses S.; Mikhailidis, Dimitri P. (2009)

Patients with malignant disease may need hormonal therapy as primary or adjuvant treatment or for palliation. Oestrogens usually decrease serum levels of total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol ...

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Gene expression of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and microtubule-associated protein Tau in high-risk early breast cancer: A quest for molecular predictors of treatment benefit in the context of a Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group trial

Pentheroudakis, George; Kalogeras, K. T.; Wirtz, R. M.; Grimani, I.; Zografos, G.; Gogas, H.; Stropp, U.; Pectasides, Dimitrios; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Hennig, G.; Samantas, E.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Papakostas, P.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fountzilas, George (2009)

Background Estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PgR) protein expression carry weak prognostic and moderate predictive utility for the outcome of early breast cancer patients on adjuvant chemohormonotherapy. ...

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Neoadjuvant versus adjuvant systemic treatment in breast cancer: A meta-analysis

Mauri, D.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005)

Background: Interest in the use of preoperative systemic treatment in the management of breast cancer has increased because such neoadjuvant therapy appears to reduce the extent of local surgery required. We compared the ...

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Prognostic factors in patients with colorectal cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy: A pooled analysis of two randomized studies

Bamias, A. T.; Basdanis, G.; Xanthakis, I.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fountzilas, George (2005)

Background. Although the TNM system is useful in predicting survival in resected colorectal cancer, heterogeneity within the same stages regarding prognosis exists. We are presenting a pooled analysis of prognostic factors ...

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A randomized trial to compare the efficacy and safety of antiemetic treatment with ondansetron and ondansetron zydis in patients with breast cancer treated with high-dose epirubicin

Pectasides, Dimitrios; Dafni, U.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Timotheadou, E.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Gaglia, A.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Fountzilas, George (2007)

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of a disintegrating tablet of ondansetron (ODT) and the conventional tablet formulation of ondansetron (OT) in controlling nausea and vomiting in breast ...

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Re: Neoadjuvant versus adjuvant systemic treatment in breast cancer: A meta-analysis (multiple letters) [2]

Popat, S.; Smith, I. E.; Mauri, D.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005)

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Triple-negative phenotype is of adverse prognostic value in patients treated with dose-dense sequential adjuvant chemotherapy: A translational research analysis in the context of a Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) randomized phase III trial

Skarlos, P.; Christodoulou, C.; Kalogeras, K. T.; Eleftheraki, A. G.; Bobos, M.; Batistatou, Anna; Valavanis, C.; Tzaida, O.; Timotheadou, E.; Kronenwett, R.; Wirtz, R. M.; Kostopoulos, I.; Televantou, D.; Koutselini, E.; Papaspirou, I.; Papadimitriou, C.; Pectasides, Dimitrios; Gogas, H.; Aravantinos, Gerasimos; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Arapantoni, P.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Fountzilas, George (2012)

Purpose: It is well recognized that breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease. The purpose of the current study was to classify patients according to the immunohistochemical phenotype of their tumors in an effort to evaluate ...