Browsing by Subject "Prostate specific antigen"
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Biweekly administration of low-dose docetaxel in hormone-resistant prostate cancer: Pilot study of an effective subtoxic therapy
(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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Cancer of unknown primary origin
(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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Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP)
(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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Endometrioid Carcinoma of the Prostate. The Diagnostic Value of Leu7 and Prostatic Specific Antigen
(1993)Summary— In a case of endometrioid carcinoma of the prostate the expression of Leu7 and prostatic specific antigen (PSA) was studied immunohistochemically on paraffin sections. The same markers were studied in 14 cases of ...
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Forty years experience of treating cancer of unknown primary
(2007)Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is not a rare tumour. It accounts as the seventh to eighth most frequently diagnosed cancer in a general medical oncology service. Since CUP is not a homogeneous disease and it consists ...
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Long-term survivors among patients with cancer of unknown primary
(2012)There is a general conception among oncologists that CUP patients behave poorly to treatment and carry a dismal survival. In this paper we are trying to elucidate the different groups of CUP patients and to describe in ...
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Optimal therapeutic management of patients with distinct clinicopathological cancer of unknown primary subsets
(2012)Cancer of unknown primary sites (CUP) is a compilation of various malignant entities-the majority of which behave aggressively and carry poor prognosis. CUP is classified into two different clinicopathological groups: the ...