Browsing by Subject "Cyclophosphamide"

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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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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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Cancer and pregnancy: A comprehensive review

Voulgaris, E.; Pentheroudakis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2011)

Background: Pregnancy complicated by cancer is relatively rare but, as women in western societies tend to delay childbearing to the third and fourth decade of life, this phenomenon is going to be encountered more often in ...

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Cancer and pregnancy: Poena magna, not anymore

Pentheroudakis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2006)

Cancer diagnosed during pregnancy constitutes a difficult clinical condition with a devastating impact on the patient's somatic and psychosocial health and possibly on foetal integrity. This circumstance also raises several ...

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Cancer and pregnancy: What should we know about the management with systemic treatment of pregnant women with cancer?

Pavlidis, Nicholas (2011)

The incidence of cancer during pregnancy is a rare phenomenon and is estimated to occur in 1:1000 pregnancies. This co-existence is likely to rise since the delay of childbearing to the later reproductive age is nowadays ...

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Cancer of unknown primary during pregnancy: An exceptionally rare coexistence

Pavlidis, Nicholas; Peccatori, Fedro A.; Lofts, F.; Greco, F. A. (2015)

Background: Cancer in pregnancy is a rare disease with breast cancer, cervical cancer, melanoma and Hodgkin's disease to be the most commonly diagnosed malignancies during gestation. Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a ...

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Cancer of unknown primary: Biological and clinical characteristics

Pavlidis, Nicholas (2003)

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Cancer, fertility and pregnancy: ESMO clinical recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

Pentheroudakis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Castiglione, M. (2008)

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

Pentheroudakis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Castiglione, M. (2009)

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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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Carcinoma of unknown primary: Natural history and treatment. Analysis of 30 cases and review of the literature

Pavlidis, Nicholas; Sourla, A.; Ch, F. Tolis; Theoharis, N. M.; Nikolaou, N. (1990)

In this study, the natural history and therapeutic management of 30 patients with carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP syndrome) is presented. Despite detailed laboratory investigations, the primary occult tumor was not ...

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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-induced noncardiogenic pulmonary edema related to gemcitabine plus docetaxel combination with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor support

Briassoulis, E. Ch; Froudarakis, M. E.; Milionis, Haralampos J.; Peponis, I. A.; Constantopoulos, S. H.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2000)

Several cancer therapeutic agents have been associated with pulmonary toxicity. Herein, we describe the case of a 73-year-old woman with breast cancer metastatic to the liver, who developed noncardiogenic pulmonary edema ...

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Coexistence of pregnancy and malignancy

Pavlidis, Nicholas (2002)

Cancer complicating pregnancy is a rare coexistence. The incidence is approximately 1 in 1,000 pregnancies. The most common cancers are those more frequently seen during the reproductive age of a woman. Breast cancer, ...

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Combination chemotherapy with cisplatin and/or doxorubicin in malignant mesothelioma. A prospective study

Tsavaris, N.; Primikirios, N.; Mylonakis, N.; Varouchakis, G.; Dosios, T.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Tasopoulos, T.; Dritsas, J.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A. (1997)

From June 1984 to October 1995, forty seven consecutive patients (pts) with a confirmed diagnosis of diffuse malignant mesothelioma (MM) of the pleura (41) and peritoneum (6), were treated with cisplatin (CDDP) (24 pts) ...

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Combination chemotherapy with gemcitabine and vinorelbine in the treatment of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: A phase-II trial by the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group

Papageorgiou, E.; Tsirigotis, P.; Dimopoulos, M. A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fountzilas, George; Papageorgiou, S.; Economopoulos, T. (2005)

To investigate the efficacy and toxicity of the combination of gemcitabine and vinorelbine in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBL), 22 patients with relapsed or refractory DLBL were ...

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Comparative survival with diverse chemotherapy regimens for cancer of unknown primary site: Multiple-treatments meta-analysis

Golfinopoulos, Vassilis; Pentheroudakis, George; Salanti, G.; Nearchou, A. D.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2009)

Objectives: To synthesize the evidence from randomized controlled trials concerning systemic treatment regimens for patients with cancer of unknown primary site (CUP). Data sources: PubMed and the Cochrane Library Central ...

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Cutaneous lymphocytic vasculopathy in lymphoproliferative disorders-a paraneoplastic lymphocytic vasculitis of the skin

Pavlidis, Nicholas; Klouvas, G. D.; Tsokos, M.; Bai, M. C.; Moutsopoulos, H. M. (1995)

In this report the histopathology and the natural history of cutaneous lymphocytic vasculopathy (lymphocytic vasculitis) in patients with lymphoproliferative diseases, is described. Between January 1986 and June 1992,116 ...

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Cyclophosphamide, mitoxantrone, fluorouracil versus conventional CMF as adjuvant treatment in node-positive breast cancer patients

Fountzilas, George; Polichronis, A.; Katsohis, C.; Gennatas, Constantinos; Toussis, D.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Vassilaros, S.; Semoglou, C.; Giannakakis, T.; Fahantidis, E.; Klouvas, G. D.; Tsavaris, N.; Konstantaras, C.; Makrantonakis, P.; Kolotas, C.; Zamboglou, N.; Tsiliakos, S.; Hainoglou, D.; Mylonakis, N.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1996)

362 evaluable node-positive patients with stage II breast cancer were randomized, receiving either 6 cycles of conventional CMF or 6 cycles of the combination of cyclophosphamide (500 mg/m2), mitoxantrone (Novantrone 10 ...