Issue 4/2019
Content (61 Articles)
Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Older Gastrointestinal Cancer Survivors: Need and Acceptability of Digital Health Interventions
Ashley B. Sanders, David E. Conroy, Kathryn H. Schmitz, Niraj Gusani
Adenocarcinoma Ex-Goblet Cell: a Retrospective Experience
Satya Das, Chanjuan Shi, Liping Du, Kamran Idrees, Jordan Berlin
Predictive Significance of Mucinous Histology on Pathologic Complete Response Rate Following Capecitabine-Based Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in Rectal Cancer: a Comparative Study
Sare Hosseini, NamPhong Nguyen, Mohammad Mohammadianpanah, Sepideh Mirzaei, Ali Mohammad Bananzadeh
Impact of Left Colonic Artery Preservation on Anastomotic Leakage in Laparoscopic Sigmoid Resection and Anterior Resection for Sigmoid and Rectosigmoid Colon Cancer
Hisaki Kato, Shinya Munakata, Kazuhiro Sakamoto, Kiichi Sugimoto, Riku Yamamoto, Shuhei Ueda, Satoshi Tokuda, Shunsuke Sakuraba, Tomoyuki Kushida, Hajime Orita, Mutsumi Sakurada, Hiroshi Maekawa, Koichi Sato
The Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio Is an Independent Prognostic Factor for Overall Survival in Hispanic Patients with Gastric Adenocarcinoma
A. Ramos-Esquivel, E. Cordero-García, D. Brenes-Redondo, W. Alpízar-Alpízar
Dose Escalation with Simultaneous Integrated Boost (SIB) Using Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) in Rectal Cancer
Abdullah Alsuhaibani, Ahmed Elashwah, Rana Mahmood, Alaa Abduljabbar, Samar Alhomoud, Luai Ashari, Shouki Bazarbashi, Ali Aljubran, Ahmed Alzahrani, Muhamed Mohiuddin, Hadeel Almanea, Hussah Alhussaini, Nasser AlSanea
Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer and the Risk Factors in Kermanshah Province-Iran 2009–2014
Saba Karimi, Alireza Abdi, Alireza Khatony, Mohamad Akbari, Azam Faraji
The Potential Role of TNF-α (rs361525 and rs1800629) in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Multivariate Analysis (Meta-Analysis)
Mehdi Heidari Horestani, Golnaz Atri Roozbahani, Masoud Sheidai
Outcomes After Surgical Resection Differ by Primary Tumor Location for Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs): a Propensity Score Matching Population Study
Apostolos Gaitanidis, Michail Alevizakos, Alexandra Tsaroucha, Michail Pitiakoudis
Acute Portal Vein Thrombosis Predicts Concomitant Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Cirrhotic Patients
Tawfik Khoury, Muhammad Massarwa, Wadi Hazou, Saleh Daher, David Hakimian, Ariel A. Benson, Toni Ashqar, Mahmud Mahamid, Shaul Yaari
Pre-treatment Peripheral Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio as a Prognostic Marker in Gastric Cancer
Monika Magdy, Tarek Hussein, Ahmed Ezzat, Ahmed Gaballah
Vitamin D Levels in Patients with Colorectal Cancer Before and After Treatment Initiation
Marissa B. Savoie, Alan Paciorek, Li Zhang, Erin L. Van Blarigan, Nilli Sommovilla, Donald Abrams, Chloe E. Atreya, Emily K. Bergsland, Hueylan Chern, Robin K. Kelley, Andrew Ko, Angela Laffan, Ankit Sarin, Madhulika G. Varma, Alan P. Venook, Katherine Van Loon
Treatment Patterns Among Patients with Metastatic and/or Unresectable Gastric Cancer in Brazil
Fernando Meton de Alencar Camara Vieira, Ana Paula Ornellas de Souza Victorino, Daniel de Iracema Gomes Cubero, Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Beato, Eimy Minowa, Guilherme Silva Julian, Diego Novick
Impact of Prior Malignancy on Survival Outcomes of Stage IV Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: SEER-Based Cohort
Muneer J. Al-Husseini, Anas M. Saad, Tarek Turk, Mohamed A. Tabash, Omar Abdel-Rahman
Tumor Platinum Concentrations and Pathological Responses Following Cisplatin-Containing Chemotherapy in Gastric Cancer Patients
Yanshuo Cao, Qing Chang, Michael Cabanero, Wenjiang Zhang, Sara Hafezi-Bakhtiari, David Hedley, Gail Darling, Fayez Quereshy, Raymond Jang, Elena Elimova, Jennifer Knox, Olga Ornatsky, Stefano Serra, Eric Chen
Outcomes Following Resection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Absence of Cirrhosis
Richard H. Lewis, Evan S. Glazer, David M. Bittenbinder, Thomas O’Brien, Jeremiah L. Deneve, David Shibata, Stephen W. Behrman, Jason M. Vanatta, Sanjaya K. Satapathy, Paxton V. Dickson
Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: a Retrospective Analysis of a Community Oncology Database
Maxine D. Fisher, Sonia Pulgar, Matthew H. Kulke, Beloo Mirakhur, Paul J. Miller, Mark S. Walker, Lee S. Schwartzberg
The Prognostic Value of Cancer Stem Cell Markers (Notch1, ALDH1, and CD44) in Primary Colorectal Carcinoma
Salem Y. Mohamed, Randa Mohamed Kaf, Mona Mostafa Ahmed, Amira Elwan, Hassan R Ashour, Amr Ibrahim
A Comparative Study of Spatial Distribution of Gastrointestinal Cancers in Poverty and Affluent Strata (Kermanshah Metropolis, Iran)
Sohyla Reshadat, Shahram Saeidi, Alireza Zangeneh, Arash Ziapour, Fariba Saeidi, Maryam Choobtashani
Significance of HER2 and Ki-67 in Preneoplastic Lesions and Carcinoma of Gallbladder
Sutapa Halder, Sayan Kundu, Jayati Chakraborty, Sudipta Chakrabarti
Transcript Level of MicroRNA Processing Elements in Gastric Cancer
Milad Asadi, Dariush Shanehbandi, Venus Zafari, Vahid Khaze, Mohammad Hosein Somi, Shahriar Hashemzadeh
Second-Line Treatment for Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Is There a Role for Gemcitabine?
Daniel M. Girardi, Luiza Dib B. B. Faria, Marcela C. Teixeira, Frederico P. Costa, Paulo Marcelo G. Hoff, Gustavo S. Fernandes
Polymorphisms of Genes Related to Function and Metabolism of Vitamin D in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Saurabh Singhal, Harit Kapoor, Saravanan Subramanian, Devendra K. Agrawal, Sumeet K. Mittal
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) Using CyberKnife in Oligometastatic Cancer Patients; Retrospective Evaluation, Single Institution Experience
Abdullah Alsuhaibani, Ahmed Elashwah, Abdullah Alkafi, Camelia Constantinescus, Faisal ALzorkany
Improved Survival of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Diagnosed with a Dedicated Screening Programme—a Propensity Score Adjusted Analysis
Mohamed A. Chinnaratha, Kirsty Campbell, Ryan Mathias, Rosemary J. McCormick, Richard J. Woodman, Alan J. Wigg
Platelet and Neutrophil Counts as Predictive Markers of Neoadjuvant Therapy Efficacy in Rectal Cancer
AnnaLee Policicchio, Joey Mercier, Antonia Digklia, Ioannis A. Voutsadakis
Radio-pathological Correlation of 18F-FDG PET in Characterizing Gallbladder Wall Thickening
Vikas Gupta, K. S. Vishnu, Thakur D. Yadav, Yashwant R. Sakaray, Santosh Irrinki, B. R. Mittal, N. Kalra, K. Vaiphei
Outcomes of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in Patients with Gastro-esophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma: a Retrospective Cohort Study in Iran
Farshid Farhan, Reza Ghalehtaki, Shiva Mahdavi-Seresht, Alipasha Meysamie, Maisa Yamrali, Borna Farazmand, Negin Mohammadi, Ehsan Saraee, Mohammad-Reza Mir, Ali Mir, Marzieh Lashkari, Samaneh Salarvand, Ebrahim Esmati, Farhad Samiei
Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma of Gastrointestinal Tract: an Uncommon Lesion, Commonly Missed
Usman Hassan, Iftikhar Ali Rana, Sajid Mushtaq, Muhammad Azam, Noreen Akhter
Anticancer Activity of Earthworm Powder (Lumbricus terrestris) Against MCF-7 and PC-3 Cancer Cell Lines
Farha A.Ali Shafi, Nebrass Faleh
A Rare Case of a Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST): a Case Report and Review of the Literature
Hamzeh Saraireh, Obada Tayyem, Omar Al Asad, Ranjana Nawgiri, Issam Alawin
Primary Angiosarcoma Pancreas: a Case Report of an Exceptional Localization
Tchin Darré, Mazamaesso Tchaou, Boyodi Tchangaï, Fousseni Alassani, Sassil Daré, Gado Napo-Koura
Refractory Hypercalcemia in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus—a Case Report and Review of Literature
Hamza Arif, Moeezullah Beg, Sohaib Zahid, Moaz Sial, Aditya Talwar, Antonios Christou, Michael Babich
Pazopanib Monotherapy Is Active in Relapsed and Refractory Metastatic Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma and Can Produce Durable Response
Vineet Govinda Gupta, Ranga Rao Rangaraju, Rajat Saha, Peush Bajpai
Alpha-fetoprotein Secreting Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Liver: a Case Report and Literature Review
Yakup Bozkaya, U. Aydın, A. Avcı, D. Tuncer, E. Yılmaz
Laparoscopic Liver Resection in a Case of Asymptomatic Elderly Patient with Caroli Syndrome
Akwasi Ofori Abayie, K. M. Nyarko, N. Loza, G. Pistorius, J. Thies
Two Sessions of Radiotherapy Were Successful in Treating Gastric Cancer with Bleeding
Osamu Tanaka, Makoto Yamada, Tomohiro Kato, Takuya Taniguchi, Kousei Ono, Masayuki Matsuo
Duodenal Invasion of Pancreatic Cancer Resulting in Hematemesis
Hamza Arif, Kristen Suchniak-Mussari, Kyle Cothron, Rachel Toney
Extramedullary Plasmacytoma of the Pancreas Complicated with Left-Sided Portal Hypertension—a Case Report and Literature Review
Ján Csomor, Bohuš Bunganič, Dominika Dvořáková, Petr Hříbek, Klára Kmochová, Vít Campr, Inna Tučková, Cyril Šálek, Petr Urbánek, Miroslav Zavoral
“Pure” High-Grade Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Arising from Low- and High-Grade Dysplasia of the Gallbladder: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Cacey Peters, Eleanor Lewin, Tong Wu, Yukihiro Nakanishi
Von Meyenburg Complexes Mimicking Diffuse Metastatic Liver Disease
Nikolaos S. Salemis, Ilias Katikaridis, Andreas Zografidis
Emergency Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Intraperitoneal Ruptured Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
Kutay Saglam, Fatih Sumer, Cihan Gokler, Ayse Nur Akatli, Cuneyt Kayaalp
Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Orbital Metastasis: a Unique Multidisciplinary Case Report
Matthew Michael Sochat, Jinhua Piao, Nishant Poddar
A Modified Low-Cost Technique of Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) in Two Patients: a Solution for Pseudomyxoma Peritonei in the Indian Scenario?
Anil Kumar Singh Rana, Nitin Agarwal, Sushant Dutta, Manoj Kumar Dokania, Himank Goyal
Musculoskeletal Metastasis from Primary Rectal Cancer: Series of Two Cases of a Very Rare Occurrence with a Short Literature Review
Sankalp Singh, Niharika Bisht, Richa Joshi, Prabha Shankar Mishra, Deepak Mulajker, Samir Gupta
Gallbladder Carcinosarcoma with Mirizzi Syndrome: a Rare Presentation
Vaibhav Kumar Varshney, Jyotsna Naresh Bharti, Binit Sureka, Subhash Chandra Soni
Clostridium septicum Myonecrosis Secondary to an Occult Small Bowel Adenocarcinoma
Rachel N. Saunders, Emiko Hayakawa, Charles J. Gibson, Alistair J. Chapman
Testicular Choriocarcinoma Metastasizing to the Small Bowel Causing Intussusception: Case Report
Shaimaa Elzamly, Alireza Torabi, Osvaldo Padilla
Recurrent Pancreatitis Secondary to Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma
Maham Hayat, Taseen A. Syed, Molly Disbrow, Ngoc Thy Bao Tran, Zain Ul Abideen Asad, William M. Tierney
Synchronous Adeno-squamous Carcinoma of Gallbladder and Adenocarcinoma of Common Bile Duct: Twin Trouble
Vaibhav Kumar Varshney, Meenakshi Rao, Subhash Chandra Soni, Binit Sureka
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Metastatic to Umbilicus: a Case Report with Review of Literature
Garima Jain, Chandan Kumar, Nishikant Damle, Mukesh Kumar, Amar Ranjan, Pranay Tanwar
Bile Duct Hamartoma Mimicking Liver Metastasis in Suspected Porcelain Gallbladder: a Case Report
Gautham Krishnamurthy, Harjeet Singh, Sravya Deepika Ganti, Ganga Ram Verma
A Giant Anorectal Condyloma Is Not Synonym of Malignancy
Meriem El Bessi, Wejih Dougaz, Meriem Jones, Hichem Jerraya, Chadli Dziri
Late-Onset Lung Metastasis in Rectum Cancer Can Be Confused with Primary Lung Cancer; a Case Report and Literature Review
Y. Bozkaya, İ. Albayrak, D. Tucer, Z. Kaya, U. Usta
Extranodal Marginal Zone B Cell (MALT) Lymphoma of the Esophagus
James H. Tabibian, Amir Kalani, Anna M. Moran, Kashyap Panganamamula
Pseudomyxoma Peritonei: Case Report and Literature Review
Keishla M. García, Karla M. Flores, Alejandro Ruiz, Frances L. González, Ángel M. Rodríguez
Undifferentiated Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver: a Great Masquerader
Alexander M. Sy, Maureen Whitsett, Xiaodong Li, Neil D. Theise, Nabil N. Dagher, Sonja Olsen
A Case Report of a Primary Neuroendocrine Tumour of the Proximal Common Bile Duct
Mohamed Ali Chaouch, Mohamed Wejih Dougaz, Wael Ferjaoui, Esma Leila Gouta, Ramzi Nouira, Ibtissem Bouasker, Chadli Dziri
Monomorphic Epitheliotropic Intestinal T cell Lymphoma: a Rare Cause of Chronic Diarrhea
Ronald Samuel, Timothy Krill, Shehzad Merwat
Unexpected Prolonged Survival After Extended and Emergent Resection of Pancreatic Metastases from Renal Cell Carcinoma
Stefania Brozzetti, Antonio V. Sterpetti