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Medical Oncology

Issue 4/2018

Content (18 Articles)

Original Paper

Safety of long-term anticoagulation in patients with brain metastases

Heidi Horstman, Joshua Gruhl, Lynette Smith, Apar K. Ganti, Nicole A. Shonka

Original Paper

Impact of bacillus Calmette–Guérin therapy of upper urinary tract carcinoma in situ: comparison of oncological outcomes with radical nephroureterectomy

Hirotaka Horiguchi, Takahiro Yoneyama, Shingo Hatakeyama, Noriko Tokui, Tendo Sato, Naoki Fujita, Hayato Yamamoto, Yuki Tobisawa, Tohru Yoneyama, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Takuya Koie, Kazuaki Yoshikawa, Satoshi Narita, Toshiaki Kawaguchi, Chikara Ohyama

Open Access Original Paper

Intravenous versus oral etoposide: efficacy and correlation to clinical outcome in patients with high-grade metastatic gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (WHO G3)

Abir Salwa Ali, Malin Grönberg, Seppo W. Langer, Morten Ladekarl, Geir Olav Hjortland, Lene Weber Vestermark, Pia Österlund, Staffan Welin, Henning Grønbæk, Ulrich Knigge, Halfdan Sorbye, Eva Tiensuu Janson

Open Access Original Paper

The inhibition of invasion of human melanoma cells through N-cadherin knock-down

Dorota Ciołczyk-Wierzbicka, Piotr Laidler

Original Paper

The effect of post-progression survival on overall survival among patients with sensitive relapse of small cell lung cancer

Yosuke Miura, Hisao Imai, Reiko Sakurai, Kyoichi Kaira, Noriaki Sunaga, Koichi Minato, Ryusei Saito, Takeshi Hisada

Open Access Original Paper

The role of income in brain tumor patients: a descriptive register-based study

Jonas Nilsson, Georg Holgersson, Jacob Järås, Stefan Bergström, Michael Bergqvist

Open Access Original Paper

Stability of matrix metalloproteinase-9 as biological marker in colorectal cancer

Andreas Jonsson, Claes Hjalmarsson, Peter Falk, Marie-Lois Ivarsson

Open Access Original Paper

SOX11 expression as a MRD molecular marker for MCL in comparison with t(11;14) and IGH rearrangement

Małgorzata Szostakowska, Michał Szymczyk, Kalina Badowska, Barbara Tudek, Anna Fabisiewicz

Original Paper

Predictive markers for efficacy of everolimus plus exemestane in patients with luminal HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer

Misato Okazaki, Yoshiya Horimoto, Masahiko Tanabe, Yuko Ichikawa, Emi Tokuda, Atsushi Arakawa, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Mitsue Saito

Original Paper

Contribution of UGT1A1 genetic polymorphisms related to axitinib pharmacokinetics to safety and efficacy in patients with renal cell carcinoma

Ryoma Igarashi, Takamitsu Inoue, Nobuhiro Fujiyama, Norihiko Tsuchiya, Kazuyuki Numakura, Hideaki Kagaya, Mitsuru Saito, Shintaro Narita, Shigeru Satoh, Takenori Niioka, Masatomo Miura, Tomonori Habuchi

Original Paper

Protective effects of purple carrot extract (Daucus carota) against rat tongue carcinogenesis induced by 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide

Glaucia Resende Soares, Carolina Foot Gomes de Moura, Marcelo Jose Dias Silva, Wagner Vilegas, Aline Boveto Santamarina, Luciana Pellegrini Pisani, Debora Estadella, Daniel Araki Ribeiro

Original Paper

Gemcitabine–cisplatin (GC) as adjuvant chemotherapy in resected stage II and stage III gallbladder cancers (GBC): a potential way forward

Vikas Ostwal, Rohit Swami, Shraddha Patkar, Swaratika Majumdar, Mahesh Goel, Shaesta Mehta, Reena Engineer, Sarika Mandavkar, Suman Kumar, Anant Ramaswamy

Original Paper

Predictive factors in patients eligible for pegfilgrastim prophylaxis focusing on RDI using ordered logistic regression analysis

Yuko Kanbayashi, Takeshi Ishikawa, Motohiro Kanazawa, Yuki Nakajima, Rumi Kawano, Yusuke Tabuchi, Tomoko Yoshioka, Norihiko Ihara, Toyoshi Hosokawa, Koichi Takayama, Keisuke Shikata, Tetsuya Taguchi

Original Paper

Acid sphingomyelinase activity as an indicator of the cell stress in HPV-positive and HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Mirko Gerle, Tuula Peñate Medina, Aydin Gülses, Hanwen Chu, Hendrik Naujokat, Jörg Wiltfang, Yahya Açil

Open Access Review Article

Optimizing the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a Latin America perspective

Juan Pablo Sade, Carlos Alberto Vargas Báez, Martin Greco, Carlos Humberto Martínez, Miguel Ángel Álvarez Avitia, Carlos Palazzo, Narciso Hernández Toriz, Patricia Isabel Bernal Trujillo, Diogo Assed Bastos, Fabio Augusto Schutz, Santiago Bella, Lucas Nogueira, Neal D. Shore

Open Access Short Communication

Blood Epstein–Barr virus DNA does not predict outcome in advanced HIV-associated Hodgkin lymphoma

Ikram Ul-Haq, Alessia Dalla Pria, Elisa Suardi, David J. Pinato, Fieke Froeling, John Forni, Paul Randell, Mark Bower

Letter to the Editor

Taxane use in breast cancer and risk of brain metastases

Kadri Altundag

Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

Developed by: Springer Medicine

Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.