... about prognostic factors. Methods: In a retrospective study, the data of 225 patients with breast, ovarian and cervical cancer treated in the palliative care unit of a university hospital between 1998 and 2009 were assembled. Clinical aspects and baseline symptoms, laboratory parameters, the clinical...

...Fatih Demircioglu; Umut Demirci; Diclehan Kilic; Secil Ozkan; Eray Karahacioglu Background: The ratio of metastatic to dissected lymph nodes (lymph node ratio; LNR) is a sensitive and superior prognostic factor for lymph node evaluation, but its relationship to cancer subtypes is unclear. Patients...

...Ming Chi; Arkadiusz Z. Dudek; Kenneth P. Wind Primary hepatic leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare malignancy of the liver in adults, with variable overall survival (OS). The main purpose of this study was to identify prognostic factors of improved survival. Relevant data were abstracted from MEDLINE...

.... This will only be made possible by a strong cooperation between basic researchers and translational scientists, clinicians, as well as academia and industry. Personalized therapy Beast cancer Intrinsic molecular subtypes Multigene signatures HER2 Cancer genome projects Prognostic factors Predictive...

...Hossein Khedmat; Mohammad Panahian; Mehrdad Mashahdian; Mojtaba Vand Rajabpour; Kazem Zendehdel Background: Stomach cancer is the most common cancer among Iranian men. We studied survival rates and prognostic factors of stomach cancer in a referral hospital in Tehran, Iran. Patients and Methods: We...

... the data of 737 admissions of 435 patients that were treated in a palliative care unit, and tried to identify prognostic factors for survival. Results: Most frequent diagnoses at admission were colorectal, gastric, esophageal, and pancreatic cancer. Major clinical symptoms were pain (66.9%), anorexia (60.8...

... response duration was 10.2 months. The median survival duration was 12.7 months. A univariate statistical analysis on prognostic factors (age, sex, Karnofsky performance status, prior nephrectomy, lung metastases only, treatment regimen) showed that only prior nephrectomy was a significant prognostic...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Medullary thyroid carcinoma Surgical therapy Prognostic factors German MTC Study Group ORIGINALARBEIT ORIGINAL ARTICLE Onkologie 1994;17:594-599 J. Winter F Raue...

... to incorporate prognostic factors at the molecular level. 11 5 2009 Bladder cancer –superficial –muscle-invasive Prognostic factors Genetic markers p53 tumor suppressor gene REVIEW ARTICLE ÜBERSICHTSARBEIT Onkologie 1995:18:202-210 M.A. Kuczyk C. Bokemeyerb H.-J. Schmoll1 U. Jonas...

... patients. Further progress might be made by the use of biologic response modifiers, growth factors, better supportive care, and the control of minimal residual disease and multidrug resistance. 11 5 2009 Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) Chemotherapy Prognostic factors © 1995 S. Karger...

...H. Sindermann; K. Junge; K. Burk Background: Miltefosine solution has been used for the topical treatment of skin metastases from breast cancer. An overview analysis of data from clinical phase II trials has been performed to identify prognostic factors for efficacy and tolerability. Materials...

...N. Vavra; H. Kucera; U. Denison; M. Barrada; H. Salzer; M. Schemper; P. Sevelda Background: The present retrospective study attempts to evaluate the significance of nicotine abuse as a prognostic factor for cervical carcinoma in addition to factors such as histological type, adjuvant radiotherapy...

... effective and frequent form of chemotherapy for malignant glioma. Adding chemotherapy to postoperative radiotherapy leads to an increased percentage of 18-month survivors, but the improvement of median survival for the whole group of patients is within several weeks. Prognostic factors such as grade...

... important prognostic factor in this series, but rather regional lymph node metastasis and local recurrence, predicting poor outcome. 28 4 2009 © 1992 S. Karger AG, Basel 1992 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated...

...J. Willner; I.C. Kiricuta; O. Kölbl The history of 795 postmastectomy breast cancer patients with 149 local and/or regional recurrences was reviewed. Ten prognostic factors were tested for their influence on survival rates after the local/regional recurrence. The following factors showed...

...J.H. Karstens; D. Andreopoulos; J. Ammon In stage III non small cell lung cancer initial tumor size is a neglected prognostic factor. 22 patients with stage III disease have been treated with radiochemotherapy (cisplatin/vindesine). A significant (p < 0,001) influence of initial tumor size...

...Xiaojing Tong; Qi You; Liankun Li; Liying Cai; Chunyan Wang; Jianhua Zheng Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic factors of ovarian yolk sac tumors (YST) and the survival rates in Chinese patients. Patients and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 76 patients...

... and laboratory prognostic factors for treatment outcome and long-term survival. The prognostic importance of S100B serum levels on overall survival compared to lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) was evaluated. Patients and Methods: The medical records of 105 AJCC (American Joint Committee on Cancer) stage IV melanoma...