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Is imaging relevant for treatment choice in early stage cervical uterine cancer?
26 October 2011
Abstract: Background: Improvement in the selection of patients with early cervical cancer eligible for different therapeutic options is expected from imaging. Objective: We examined key tumoral featur...
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Pierre Loubeyre,
Isabelle Navarria,
Manuela Undurraga,
Alexandre Bodmer,
Osman Ratib,
Christoph Becker,
Patrick Petignat
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e1-e6
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Do patients with pN0 gastric cancer benefit from prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy?
09 November 2011
Abstract: Purpose: To investigate the impact of prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy on survival for patients with node-negative (pN0) advanced gastric cancer according to the extent of lymph node di...
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Dengqun Sun,
Renhua Gong,
Haorong Wu
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e7-e11
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Surgical treatment of locally limited tonsillar cancer
21 November 2011
Abstract: Background: This study aimed to assess the efficacy of primary surgical treatment in the management of locally limited tonsillar carcinoma and the incidence of occult cervical metastasis. Me...
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Konstantinos Mantsopoulos,
Georgios Psychogios,
Frank Waldfahrer,
Johannes Zenk,
Heinrich Iro
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e13-e16
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Selective organ preservation in muscle-invasive bladder cancer: Review of the literature
17 November 2011
Abstract: The standard of care for transitional-cell carcinoma of the bladder with invasion to the muscularis propria is radical cystectomy with bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection. However, curren...
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Parham Khosravi-Shahi,
Luis Cabezón-Gutiérrez
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e17-e22
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Health-related quality of life in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after hepatic resection, transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, radiofrequency ablation or no treatment
21 November 2011
Abstract: Background: Aim of this work was to compare quality of life (QoL) of patients affected by HCC and submitted to hepatic resection (HR), transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), radiofrequency ...
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Adriana Toro,
Elia Pulvirenti,
Filippo Palermo,
Isidoro Di Carlo
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Peritoneal pseudomyxoma arising from the urachus
17 October 2011
Abstract: Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) arising from urachal tumors is extremely rare. To our knowledge, natural history, tumor biological behaviour, morbidity, treatment, and prognosis of PMP arising ...
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Alejandra Martínez,
Gwénael Ferron,
Eliane Mery,
Laurance Gladieff,
Jean Pierre Delord,
Denis Querleu
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Management and prevention of complications of subcutaneous intravenous infusion port
17 October 2011
Abstract: Subcutaneous intravenous infusion port (SIIP) has become an increasingly and widely adopted technique in the management of oncology patients. This route has been used not only for chemothera...
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Hsiang-Chun Jan,
Shao-Jiun Chou,
Tzu-Hung Chen,
Chuin-I Lee,
Tze-Kai Chen,
Mary Ann Lou
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Undergraduate training in oncology: An ESO continuing challenge for medical students
17 October 2011
Abstract: During the last six years the European School of Oncology (ESO) opened an undergraduate programme for European medical students, aiming to further improve their oncology knowledge and clinic...
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N. Pavlidis,
J.B. Vermorken,
R. Stahel,
J. Bernier,
A. Cervantes,
G. Pentheroudakis,
R.A. Audisio,
A. Costa
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Bioluminescence imaging correlates with tumor progression in an orthotopic mouse model of lung cancer
17 October 2011
Abstract: Background and Objectives: To determine whether bioluminescence imaging of human lung cancer cells growing in an orthotopic murine model provides a sensitive tool for monitoring tumor progre...
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Rafael A. Madero-Visbal,
Jimmie F. Colon,
Ingrid C. Hernandez,
Arati Limaye,
Joshua Smith,
Christopher M. Lee,
Philip A. Arlen,
Luis Herrera,
Cheryl H. Baker
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Re-operation outcome in patients referred to a gynecologic oncology center with presumed ovarian cancer FIGO I-IIIA after sub-standard initial surgery
17 October 2011
Abstract: Background: Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for early ovarian cancer both as therapeutic and comprehensive staging. Only the latter allows appropriate tailoring of systemic treatment. H...
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J.P. Grabowski,
P. Harter,
C. Buhrmann,
D. Lorenz,
R. Hils,
S. Kommoss,
A. Traut,
A. du Bois
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Genetic abberations in gallbladder cancer
17 October 2011
Abstract: Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is the most common type of biliary tract carcinoma and the third commonest digestive tract malignancy in our region. Studies available in literature do not clearl...
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Sanjeev K. Maurya,
Mallika Tewari,
Raghvendra R. Mishra,
Hari S. Shukla
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37-43
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The prognostic significant of percentage drop in serum CEA post curative resection for colon cancer
17 October 2011
Abstract: Objective/background: This study aimed to analyze the hypothesis that increased percentage drop in serum CEA post curative resection for colon cancer is associated with improved survival. Me...
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Won-Suk Lee,
Jeong-Heum Baek,
Keon Kuk Kim,
Yeon Ho Park
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Combination cancer immunotherapy “Expanding Paul Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Concept”
17 October 2011
The concept of cancer immunotherapy is not new and investigators have tried to stimulate the immune system to fight cancer for over a hundred years. However, success has been limited, inconsistent and...
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Robert L. Elliott
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