Browsing by Subject "Tumor regression"
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Chemotherapy for patients with two favourable subsets of unknown primary carcinoma: Active, but how effective?
(2005)Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) is characterized by dismal patient survival. The outcome of patients with two favourable risk CUP subsets was studied. Eighty patients diagnosed with either midline lymph node metastases ...
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Lymphoma in Sjogren's syndrome
(1992)Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune disease with a known predisposition for lymphoma development. Eight of 120 patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome followed at the University of loannina over the past 7 years developed ...
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Malignant melanoma of unknown primary site. To make the long story short. A systematic review of the literature
(2011)Introduction: Although more than 90% of melanomas have a cutaneous origin, occasionally it is discovered as a secondary deposit without evident primary site. The aim of this study was to systematically review published ...
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Molecular assignment of tissue of origin in cancer of unknown primary may not predict response to therapy or outcome: A systematic literature review
(2009)Background: Gene expression profiling platforms were recently shown to accurately assign cancer of unknown primary (CUP) to a primary tissue of origin, with unknown impact on patient outcome. We examined chemotherapy ...
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Oxaliplatin (eloxatin™) plus irinotecan combination chemotherapy found effective in refractory metastatic insular thyroid carcinoma
(2005)Therapeutic options for metastatic insular thyroid carcinoma (ITC) are very limited. We present the case of a 39-year-old woman with refractory metastatic ITC who responded to oxaliplatin plus irinotecan chemotherapy. She ...