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      Age-Dependent Metastatic Spread and Survival: Cancer of Unknown Primary as a Model 

      Hemminki, K.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Tsilidis, K. K.; Sundquist, K.; Ji, J. (2016)
      In order to describe a novel approach for the clinical study of metastases, we provide here age-specific incidence and survival data for cancer of unknown primary (CUP). Metastases in various organs are found at CUP ...

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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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      Atomic Force Microscopy Probing of Cancer Cells and Tumor Microenvironment Components 

      Stylianou, A.; Stylianopoulos, T. (2016)
      Cancer cells have different characteristics from normal cells in terms of morphology, cell–cell interactions, cytoskeleton organization, cell growth rates, and cell-extracellular matrix interactions. Although the clarification ...

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      Bcl2 and p53 protein expression in metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary origin: Biological and clinical implications. A Hellenic co-operative oncology group study 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Tsokos, M.; Fountzilas, George; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Samantas, E.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Nikolaides, C.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1998)
      We have previously shown that metastatic carcinomas of unknown primary site overexpress several tumor markers as well as the products of the oncogenes c-myc, ras and c-erbB2. We analysed the tissue expression of the protein ...

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      Biweekly administration of low-dose docetaxel in hormone-resistant prostate cancer: Pilot study of an effective subtoxic therapy 

      Karavasilis, V.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Siarabi, O.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2003)
      Taxane-based chemotherapy has shown activity but also toxicity when administered at standard doses in patients with hormone-resistant prostate cancer (HRPC). In this pilot study, we investigated biweekly low-dose docetaxel ...

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      Can circulated lung cancer cells pass to the urine without apparent urine tract metastases?. A single centre series 

      Kamposioras, K.; Pentheroudakis, George; Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki D.; Pappa, L.; Bafa, M.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2008)
      Urine cytology has been a useful tool for the diagnosis of urinary tract malignancies. However, the presence of tumor cells in the urine sediment without an obvious urothelial metastatic deposit is a rare phenomenon and ...

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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 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 origin 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1997)
      About 3 % of all cancer patients suffer from cancer of unknown primary origin. These patients present with metastatic disease for which a primary site cannot be detected at the time of diagnosis. Sophisticated diagnostic ...

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      Cancer of unknown primary site: Missing primary or missing biology? 

      Pentheroudakis, George; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2007)
      Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) ranks as the fourth most common cause of cancer deaths and represents both a diagnostic and a management challenge. In CUP, the regression or dormancy of the primary tumor, the development ...

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      Cancer of unknown primary: What kind of chemotherapy? what kind of disease? 

      Pentheroudakis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2009)

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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 plus paclitaxel in unknown primary carcinoma: A phase II Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group Study 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Kalofonos, H. P.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Samantas, E.; Fountzilas, George; Xiros, N.; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Christodoulou, C.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2000)
      Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of the carboplatin/paclitaxel combination in patients with carcinoma of unknown primary site (CUP). Patients and Methods: Seventy-seven consecutive CUP patients (45 women and 32 men; median ...

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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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      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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      Cell adhesion and matrix stiffness: Coordinating cancer cell invasion and metastasis 

      Gkretsi, V.; Stylianopoulos, T. (2018)
      Metastasis is a multistep process in which tumor extracellular matrix (ECM) and cancer cell cytoskeleton interactions are pivotal. ECM is connected, through integrins, to the cell's adhesome at cell-ECM adhesion sites and ...

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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 regimen with carboplatin, epirubicin and etoposide in metastatic carcinomas of unknown primary site: A Hellenic Co-operative Oncology Group phase II study 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Tsavaris, N.; Fountzilas, George; Athanasiades, A.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Bafaloukos, Dimitrios; Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Samantas, E.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1998)
      The encouraging results that have been reported for cisplatin combination chemotherapy in a minority of patients with cancer of unknown primary (CUP) together with the previously shown equal activity of carboplatin in this ...

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      Diagnostic and therapeutic management of cancer of an unknown primary 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Hainsworth, J.; Greco, F. A. (2003)
      Metastatic Cancer of Unknown Primary Site (CUP) accounts for approximately 3% of all malignant neoplasms and is therefore one of the 10 most frequent cancer diagnoses in man. Patients with CUP present with metastatic disease ...

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      Docetaxel and carboplatin combination chemotherapy as outpatient palliative therapy in carcinoma of unknown primary: A multicentre Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group phase II study 

      Pentheroudakis, George; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Kalofonos, H. P.; Fountzilas, George; Economopoulos, T.; Samelis, G.; Koutras, A. K.; Karina, M.; Xiros, N.; Samantas, E.; Bamias, A. T.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2008)
      Introduction. Taxane/platinum combinations exhibit synergistic cytotoxicity and activity against a broad range of solid tumours. We sought to optimise the regimen as a suitable outpatient palliative treatment for cancer ...

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