Browsing by Subject "Sarcoma"
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Cancer and pregnancy: What should we know about the management with systemic treatment of pregnant women with cancer?
(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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Clear‐cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses: A clinicopathologic study. Presentation of six additional cases with review of the literature
(1984)Clear‐cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses is a rare and slowly growing soft tissue sarcoma, affecting mainly young adults. During the last 15 years, approximately 60 cases have been reported in the literature. In this ...
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Clinical trial design methodologies for advanced sarcoma therapy
(2015)Sarcomas are rare and heterogeneous mesenchymal tumors affecting connective tissue. For many years, doxorubicin-based chemotherapy has been the main systemic therapy option for patients with metastatic soft tissue sarcoma. ...
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Diagnosis, prognosis, and management of leiomyosarcoma: Recognition of anatomic variants
(2013)PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to present the most recent advances in the diagnosis of the more common leiomyosarcoma (LMS) anatomic variants, potentially useful prognostic markers that have recently been ...
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Editorial: Adolescent oncology
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The evolution of systemic therapy in sarcoma
(2013)Approximately 50% of patients with localized soft tissue sarcomas will develop recurrent disease after complete surgical resection, requiring alternative means of treatment. Conventional chemotherapy comprising of doxorubicin ...
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Extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma. Presentation of two cases and review of the literature
(1991)We present here two cases extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma, the first in a 50-year-old female and the second in a 25-year-old male. We discuss the clinical picture, histopathology and therapeutic management. The literature ...
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«Juvenile» oncology - A missing subspecialty. The experience of a reference cancer centre
(2006)Introduction: Despite unique tumor epidemiology and a higher cancer incidence compared to pediatric patients, adolescents and young adults have not been receiving specialized, multidisciplinary, centralized care. In an ...
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Management of retroperitoneal sarcomas: Main prognostic factors for local recurrence and survival
(2012)Purpose: Retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPs) are characterized by slow indolent growth and metastasize at a late point in their natural course. The purpose of this study was to review our experience in the management of RSs and ...
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p53/MDM-2 immunohistochemical expression correlated with proliferative activity in different subtypes of human sarcomas: A ten-year follow-up study
(1998)The aim of this study was the evaluation of p53/MDM-2 protein overexpression in different subtypes of human sarcomas, and their correlation with proliferative activity and patient outcome. We selected 40 cases of human ...
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The treatment of cancer in Greek antiquity
(2004)Literary sources provide considerable information on the existence of various malignant tumours in the classical period. Based on a close reading of the ancient Greek medical treatises, this paper traces the history of the ...
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Treatment of the pregnant mother with cancer: A systematic review on the use of cytotoxic, endocrine, targeted agents and immunotherapy during pregnancy. Part I: Solid tumors
(2010)The association of cancer and pregnancy is increasingly encountered nowadays in clinical practice. Due to the relative rarity of the situation, it lacks a systematized approach. Different systemic therapies are used in ...