Browsing by Subject "Controlled study"

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Adjuvant chemotherapy using CPT-11, leucovorin plus bolus 5-fluorouracil and radiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer. A feasibility study

Kalofonos, H. P.; Kardamakis, D.; Bamias, A. T.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Papakostas, P.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Sakantamis, A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fountzilas, George (2003)

Background: The addition of CPT-11 to 5FU/leucovorin resulted in survival benefit in patients with advanced colorectal cancer suggesting that this combination could be used successfully in the adjuvant setting. We studied ...

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Adjuvant Cytotoxic and Endocrine Therapy in Pre- and Postmenopausal Patients with Breast Cancer and One to Nine Infiltrated Nodes: Five-Year Results of the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group Randomized HE 10/92 Study

Fountzilas, George; Stathopoulos, G. P.; Kouvatseas, G.; Polychronis, A.; Klouvas, G. D.; Samantas, E.; Zamboglou, N.; Kyriakou, K.; Adamou, A.; Pectasides, Dimitrios; Economopoulos, T.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Georgoulias, V.; Razi, E. D.; Koukouras, D.; Zombolas, V.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2004)

The present randomized phase III trial was designed to detect a 15% benefit in relapse-free survival (RFS) or overall survival (OS) from the incorporation of adjuvant tamoxifen to the combination of CNF [cyclophosphamide, ...

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Alcohol and psychoactive drugs increased the pre-hospital mortality in 655 fall-related fatalities in Greece: A call for management protocols

Papadopoulos, I. N.; Bonovas, Stefanos; Kanakaris, Nikolaos K.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Kotsilianou, Olympia; Konstantoudakis, Georgios; Leukidis, Christos (2012)

Introduction: The frequency of alcohol and psychoactive drugs in fall-related fatalities and their effect on type, severity of injury and location of death constitute the subjects of this study. Methods: A retrospective ...

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Analgesic tolerance and cross-tolerance to i.c.v. endomorphin-1, endomorphin-2, and morphine in mice; 15276249

Soignier, R. D.; Vaccarino, A. L.; Fanti, Kostas A.; Wilson, A. M.; Zadina, J. E. (2004)

The present study examined the development of analgesic tolerance to endomorphin-1 (EM1), endomorphin-2 (EM2), and morphine, and cross-tolerance among these drugs. Male Swiss Webster mice were injected i.c.v. with EM1, ...

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Angiogenesis in cancer of unknown primary: Clinicopathological study of CD34, VEGF and TSP-1

Karavasilis, V.; Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki D.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Tsanou, E.; Kitsou, E.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Fountzilas, George; Fotsis, T.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2005)

Background: Cancer of unknown primary remains a mallignancy of elusive biology and grim prognosis that lacks effective therapeutic options. We investigated angiogenesis in cancer of unknown primary to expand our knowledge ...

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Are the effects of tamoxifen on the serum lipid profile modified by apolipoprotein E phenotypes?

Liberopoulos, E. N.; Karabina, S. A.; Tselepis, A.; Bairaktari, Eleni Th; Nikolaides, C.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Elisaf, Moses S. (2002)

Background: Tamoxifen has favorable effects on the serum lipid profile. It has been suggested that the apolipoprotein (Apo) E phenotype can influence serum lipid parameters; the ApoE allele 4 (ApoE4) is associated with ...

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Artifacts in spiral CT protocols: The importance of the spatial reconstruction

Lavdas, Eleftherios; Vlychou, M.; Roka, V.; Wozniak, Greta; Protogerou, G.; Fezoulidis, Ioannis (2009)

Purpose: This study recorded and analysed streak and motion artifacts in spiral CT examinations and evaluated the elimination and minimization of them by the use of segmental reconstruction with and without alterations of ...

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The association of community violence exposure with middle-school achievement: A prospective study

Henrich, Christopher C.; Schwab-Stone, M.; Fanti, Kostas A.; Jones, S. M.; Ruchkin, V. (2004)

This study investigated the long-term effects of exposure to community violence on academic achievement and feelings of safety in school among a large sample of urban middle-school students (N = 759). It also considered ...

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Cancer prevalence and mortality in centenarians: A systematic review

Pavlidis, Nicholas; Stanta, G.; Audisio, R. A. (2012)

Life expectancy has dramatically expanded, the global population has aged unprecedentedly and the number of centenarians has significantly increased. The analysis of autopsy series, cancer registries data, vital statistics ...

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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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Cavitating squamous cell lung carcinoma-distinct entity or not? Analysis of radiologic, histologic, and clinical features

Pentheroudakis, George; Kostadima, Lida; Fountzilas, George; Kalogera-Fountzila, Anna; Klouvas, G. D.; Kalofonos, H. P.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2004)

Introduction: Patients with cavitating squamous lung carcinoma (cSLC) are believed to harbor aggressive, chemoresistant disease with distinct features and fare poorly. We retrospectively analyzed radiologic, histologic, ...

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Cefditoren: Comparative efficacy with other antimicrobials and risk factors for resistance in clinical isolates causing UTIs in outpatients

Hatzaki, Despina; Poulakou, G.; Katsarolis, Ioannis; Lambri, Niki; Souli, M.; Deliolanis, Ioannis; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Lebessi, Evangelia; Giamarellou, Helen (2012)

Background: To investigate a possible role of Cefditoren, a recently marketed in Greece third-generation oral cephalosporin in urinary infections of outpatients.Methods: During a multicenter survey of Enterobacteriaceae ...

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CEOP-21 versus CEOP-14 chemotherapy with or without rituximab for the first-line treatment of patients with aggressive lymphomas: Results of the HE22A99 trial of the hellenic cooperative oncology group

Economopoulos, T.; Psyrri, A.; Dimopoulos, M. A.; Kalogera-Fountzila, Anna; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Tsatalas, C.; Nikolaides, C.; Mellou, S.; Xiros, N.; Fountzilas, George (2007)

Background: In this study we investigated whether administering CEOP (cyclophosphamide, epirubicin, vincristine [Oncovin], and prednisone) every 2 weeks (CEOP-14) instead of every 3 weeks (the standard CEOP-21 regimen) ...

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Chemotherapy cytotoxicity of human MCF-7 and MDA-MB 231 breast cancer cells is altered by osteoblast-derived growth factors

Koutsilieris, M.; Reyes-Moreno, C.; Choki, I.; Sourla, A.; Doillon, C.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1999)

One-third of women with breast cancer will develop bone metastases and eventually die from disease progression at these sites. Therefore, we analyzed the ability of human MG-63 osteoblast-like cells (MG-63 cells), MG- 63 ...

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Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and the risk of multiple sclerosis: A meta-analysis

Bagos, Pantelis G.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Ioannidis, A. (2006)

We conducted a meta-analysis of studies comparing the presence of Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) between multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and other neurological diseases patients or healthy controls. We identified 26 studies ...

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Cisplatin/etoposide versus carboplatin/etoposide chemotherapy and irradiation in small cell lung cancer: A randomized phase III study

Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Samantas, E.; Fountzilas, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Apostolopoulou, F.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V. (1994)

The efficacy and toxicity of cisplatin/etoposide and carboplatin/etoposide combinations along with thoracic irradiation were prospectively assessed in patients with small cell lung cancer. Both combinations were equally ...

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The clinical significance of bcl-2 overexpression in breast cancer patients - A retrospective study with long term follow up

Bai, M. C.; Agnantis, Niki J.; Zagorianakou, P.; Kamina, S.; Nonni, A. V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Briassoulis, E. Ch (2001)

We examined by immunohistochemistry the expression of the bcl-2 protein in sixty-eight cases of operated breast carcinoma patients (stage I, II and III) and correlated the findings with the prognosis. In 38.3% of the cases ...

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Clinicopathologic study of vascular endothelial growth factor, thrombospondin-1, and microvessel density assessed by CD34 in patients with stage III ovarian carcinoma

Karavasilis, V.; Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki D.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Tsanou, E.; Kitsou, E.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2006)

The aim of the study was to investigate angiogenesis in patients with advanced-stage ovarian carcinoma. We used paraffin-embedded tumor tissues from 33 patients diagnosed with FIGO III ovarian cancer who had optimal surgery ...

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Clinicopathological study of metallothionein immunohistochemical expression, in benign, borderline and malignant ovarian epithelial tumors

Zagorianakou, N.; Stefanou, D. G.; Makrydimas, G.; Zagorianakou, P.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Karavasilis, V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Agnantis, Niki J. (2006)

Metallothioneins (MTs) are a family of cystein-rich metal-binding proteins, which are expressed in normal cells during fetal and postnatal life but also in a variety of human neoplasms. MT expression in human tumors has ...

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Clinicopathological study of the expression of hsp27, pS2, cathepsin D and metallothionein in primary invasive breast cancer

Ioachim, E.; Tsanou, E.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Batsis, Ch; Karavasilis, V.; Charchanti, A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Agnantis, Niki J. (2003)

Expression of the hormone-related proteins hsp27, pS2, and also of cathepsin D (CD) and metallothionein (MT) was studied by immunohistochemistry and analyzed against clinical data in breast cancer. Archived material of ...