Browsing by Subject "Mastectomy"

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Axillary nodal metastases from carcinoma of unknown primary (CUPAx): A systematic review of published evidence

Pentheroudakis, George; Lazaridis, G.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2010)

Axillary lymph node metastases from adenocarcinoma or poorly differentiated carcinoma of unknown primary (CUPAx) represent a rare clinical entity without consensus on its biology, management and outcome. We systematically ...

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Cancer of unknown primary site

Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (2012)

Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is a well recognised clinical disorder, accounting for 3-5 of all malignant epithelial tumours. CUP is clinically characterised as an aggressive disease with early dissemination. ...

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Cancer of unknown primary site: 20 questions to be answered

Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (2010)

Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a common, well-recognized and heterogeneous clinical syndrome. Patients with CUP present with metastatic disease in the absence of an identifiable primary tumour despite a diagnostic ...

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

Peccatori, Fedro A.; Azim, Hatem A.; Orecchia, R.; Hoekstra, H. J.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Kesic, V.; Pentheroudakis, George (2013)

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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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Donor-derived breast cancer in a bone marrow transplantation recipient

Golfinopoulos, Vassilis; Pentheroudakis, George; Kamakari, S.; Metaxa-Mariatou, V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2009)

We present the case of a young lady who had been treated for acute myelocytic leukemia at the age of 14 by means of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, the donor being her sister. At the age of 28 she underwent modified ...

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Dose-dense sequential adjuvant chemotherapy followed, as indicated, by trastuzumab for one year in patients with early breast cancer: First report at 5-year median follow-up of a Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group randomized phase III trial

Fountzilas, George; Dafni, U.; Papadimitriou, C.; Timotheadou, E.; Gogas, H.; Eleftheraki, A. G.; Xanthakis, I.; Christodoulou, C.; Koutras, A. K.; Papandreou, C. N.; Papakostas, P.; Miliaras, S.; Markopoulos, C.; Dimitrakakis, C.; Korantzopoulos, Panagiotis; Karanikiotis, C.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Samantas, E.; Varthalitis, I.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pectasides, Dimitrios; Dimopoulos, M. A. (2014)

Background: Dose-dense sequential chemotherapy including anthracyclines and taxanes has been established in the adjuvant setting of high-risk operable breast cancer. However, the preferable taxane and optimal schedule of ...

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History of mastectomy

Malliou, S.; Ajnantis, N.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Kappas, A. M.; Kriaras, J.; Geroulanos, S. (2006)

Incidents of breast cancer have been documented back to the early Egyptians. Hippocrates was the first who used the term of cancer "karkinos" or "karkinoma" of the nose, the uterus, the breasts and the neck. He believed ...

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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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The neutrophil, not the tumor: Serum CA 15-3 elevation as a result of granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor-induced neutrophil MUC1 overexpression and neutrophilia in patients with breast carcinoma receiving adjuvant chemotherapy

Pentheroudakis, George; Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki D.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Damala, K.; Vassou, A.; Vartholomatos, G.; Kolaitis, N.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2004)

BACKGROUND. Patients with resected breast carcinoma who received granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-supported adjuvant chemotherapy exhibited an increase in their serum CA 15-3 levels. The authors investigated ...

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The pregnant mother with breast cancer: Diagnostic and therapeutic management

Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (2005)

This review describes the epidemiology, pathology, clinical picture and therapeutic management of pregnant women with breast cancer. In addition, it covers other important issues like the safety of both diagnostic and ...

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Presentation, management and outcome of 32 patients with pregnancy-associated breast cancer: A matched controlled study

Halaska, M. J.; Pentheroudakis, George; Strnad, P.; Stankusova, H.; Chod, J.; Robova, H.; Petruzelka, L.; Rob, L.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2009)

Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is a rare and challenging problem. We sought to describe epidemiology, management and outcome of women in whom breast cancer was diagnosed during pregnancy or within one year after ...

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Prognostic utility of β-tubulin isotype III and correlations with other molecular and clinicopathological variables in patients with early breast cancer: A translational Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) study

Pentheroudakis, George; Batistatou, Anna; Kalogeras, K. T.; Kronenwett, R.; Wirtz, R. M.; Bournakis, E.; Eleftheraki, A. G.; Pectasides, Dimitrios; Bobos, M.; Papaspirou, I.; Kamina, S.; Gogas, H.; Koutras, A. K.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fountzilas, George (2011)

We evaluated the prognostic and predictive utility of β-tubulin isotype III (TUBB3) tumour gene transcription in early breast cancer patients enrolled in a randomised study. Quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase ...

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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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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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Rectal metastases from lobular carcinoma of the breast: Report of a case and literature review

Bamias, A. T.; Baltayiannis, G.; Kamina, S.; Fatouros, M.; Lymperopoulos, E.; Agnantis, Niki J.; Tsianos, Epameinondas; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2001)

Metastatic involvement of the gastrointestinal (G1) tract secondary to breast cancer is rare. Reported herein is the case of a 74-year-old woman with metastatic lobular breast carcinoma to the rectum presenting with ...