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Suboptimal Vitamin D levels among adult survivors of childhood cancers [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose: Vitamin D plays an important role in many bodily systems, with increasing evidence suggesting its importance for the prevention of chronic diseases and cancer.
Lisac, Robert; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, Mahoney, Martin C; Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, Rokitka, Denise A.; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, Heffler, Jennifer E; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, Zevon, Michael A; Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York   +4 more
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Long-term results of a phase II study of hypofractionated proton therapy for prostate cancer: moderate versus extreme hypofractionation

Radiation Oncology, 2019
Background We performed a prospective phase II study to compare acute toxicity among five different hypofractionated schedules using proton therapy. This study was an exploratory analysis to investigate the secondary end-point of biochemical failure-free
Boram Ha, Kwan Ho Cho, Kang Hyun Lee, Jae Young Joung, Yeon-Joo Kim, Sung Uk Lee, Hyunjung Kim, Yang-Gun Suh, Sung Ho Moon, Young Kyung Lim, Jong Hwi Jeong, Haksoo Kim, Weon Seo Park, Sun Ho Kim   +13 more
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Cancer research and therapy: Where are we today? [PDF]

, 2014
Till date scientists are struggling to understand the complete mechanism of carcinogenesis. In future, the real time detection of cancer may help scientists to identify some of the complicated biological mechanisms.
Sawant, Sampada; C.U. Shah College of Pharmacy, SNDT Women’s University, Juhu, Santacruz (West), Mumbai, India, Shegokar, Ranjita; Department of Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and NutriCosmetics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany   +1 more
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The use of hyperbaric oxygen to treat actinic rectal fistula after SpaceOAR use and radiotherapy for prostate cancer: a case report

BMC Urology, 2020
Background In definitive radiation therapy for prostate cancer, the SpaceOAR® System, a hydrogel spacer, is widely used to decrease the irradiated dose and toxicity of rectum.
Tairo Kashihara, Koji Inaba, Motokiyo Komiyama, Hiroki Nakayama, Kotaro Iijima, Shie Nishioka, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Nao Kikkawa, Yuko Kubo, Satoshi Shima, Satoshi Nakamura, Ayaka Takahashi, Kana Takahashi, Kae Okuma, Naoya Murakami, Hiroshi Igaki, Yuko Nakayama, Arinobu Fukunaga, Yoshiyuki Matsui, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Jun Itami   +20 more
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The role of CDK inhibitors in breast cancer therapy [PDF]

, 2016
Cyclin D1 and cyclin-dependent protein kinases CDK4/6 are part of RB-pathway which plays a very important role in the regulation of cell cycle progression and cell death.
Huszno, Joanna; Clinical and Experimental Oncology Department, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice
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A hard pill to swallow: a qualitative study of women’s experiences of adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer [PDF]

, 2014
Objective: To explore women’s experiences of taking adjuvant endocrine therapy as a treatment for breast cancer and how their beliefs about the purpose of the medication, side effects experienced and interactions with health professionals might influence
McCowan, Colin, Harrow, Alison, Thompson, Alastair M., McCowan, C, Radley, Andrew, Wells, Mary, Radley, Andrew; id_orcid, Parsons, Mark, Dryden, R, Dryden, Ruth, Thompson, Alastair M, Parsons, M, Wells, M, Thompson, Alastair, Radley, A, Thompson, AM, Harrow, A, McCowan, Colin; id_orcid   +17 more
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Particle Therapy for Breast Cancer

, 2022
Particle therapy has received increasing attention in the treatment of breast cancer due to its unique physical properties that may enhance patient quality of life and reduce the late effects of therapy.
Roman O. Kowalchuk, Kimberly S. Corbin, Rachel B. Jimenez   +2 more
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Recent advances in treatment of childhood cancer : role of targeted therapy [PDF]

, 2013
This article is an editorial, and it doesn't include an abstract. Full text of this article is also available in HTML and PDF.Cite this article as: Al-Tonbary Y. Recent advances in treatment of childhood cancer: role of targeted therapy.
Al-Tonbary, Youssef; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Mansoura University, Daqahlia
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Frequent adaptive immune responses against arginase-1

OncoImmunology, 2018
The enzyme arginase-1 reduces the availability of arginine to tumor-infiltrating immune cells, thus reducing T-cell functionality in the tumor milieu. Arginase-1 is expressed by some cancer cells and by immune inhibitory cells, such as myeloid-derived ...
Evelina Martinenaite, Rasmus Erik Johansson Mortensen, Morten Hansen, Morten Orebo Holmström, Shamaila Munir Ahmad, Nicolai Grønne Dahlager Jørgensen, Özcan Met, Marco Donia, Inge Marie Svane, Mads Hald Andersen   +9 more
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Online adaptive radiotherapy for bladder cancer using a simultaneous integrated boost and fiducial markers

Radiation Oncology, 2023
Purpose The aim was to assess the feasibility of online adaptive radiotherapy (oART) for bladder cancer using a focal boost by focusing on the quality of the online treatment plan and automatic target delineation, duration of the workflow and performance
Sana Azzarouali, Karin Goudschaal, Jorrit Visser, Maarten Hulshof, Marjan Admiraal, Niek van Wieringen, Jakko Nieuwenhuijzen, Jan Wiersma, Laurien Daniëls, Duncan den Boer, Arjan Bel   +10 more
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