Clinical advances in nasopharyngeal carcinoma surgery and a video demonstration
Visualized Cancer Medicine, 2021 Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is highly radiosensitive, and radiotherapy is recommended for newly diagnosed NPC. Because of the poor visual surgical field, narrow operating space, difficulty protecting the internal carotid artery (ICA) and poor wound ...
Ding Xi +6 more
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Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab in Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 BACKGROUND The combination of atezolizumab and bevacizumab showed encouraging antitumor activity and safety in a phase 1b trial involving patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. METHODS In a global, open-label, phase 3 trial, patients with
R. Finn +20 more
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The role of the bacterial microbiome in the treatment of cancer
BMC Cancer, 2021 The human microbiome is defined as the microorganisms that reside in or on the human body, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa, and their genomes.
Zi-Kun Yu +6 more
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Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, 2023 Background To analyze the relationship between the rotational and residual setup errors and the dose deviation on nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) treated by helical tomotherapy (HT).
Wenyan Yao MS +10 more
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Programmed death ligand 1 expression levels, clinicopathologic features, and survival in surgically resected sarcomatoid lung carcinoma [PDF]
Asia Pac J Clin Oncol 2020 1 9, 2020 Aim: To determine the programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression rates in sarcomatoid lung carcinomas and to compare clinicopathologic features and survival rates of PD-L1-positive and negative patients. Methods: PD-L1 expression was evaluated in 65 surgically resected sarcomatoid carcinomas.
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2023 Objective This study aimed to establish novel nomograms that could be used to predict the prognosis of gastric carcinoma patients who underwent D2 + total gastrectomy on overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS).
Yifan Li, Min Bai, Yuye Gao
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Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Histologically Mimicking a Plasmacytoma. [PDF]
, 2020 Anaplastic (undifferentiated) thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare malignancy which may arise from transformation of a pre-existing differentiated carcinoma. We report the unique case where a lesion of thyroid origin presented with the histological features
Mo, Joshua H +4 more
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Clinical significance of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in laryngeal carcinoma: Its role in the different subsites [PDF]
, 2017 Background: During epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, cancer cells lose adhesion capacity gaining migratory properties. The role of the process on prognosis has been evaluated in 50 cases of laryngeal carcinoma.
Carletti, R +7 more
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Alpha-fetoprotein–producing recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A case report
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2021 Alpha-fetoprotein hardly increased due to nasopharyngeal cancer. In this article, we reported a 57-year-old male nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient who had posttreatment subscapular metastasis with high serum alpha-fetoprotein but negative plasma Epstein ...
Zhen-Chong Yang +7 more
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Is contrast-enhanced US alternative to spiral CT in the assessment of treatment outcome of radiofrequency ablation in hepatocellular carcinoma? [PDF]
, 2009 Purpose: The present study was conducted to assess the efficacy of contrast-enhanced ultrasound with low mechanical index in evaluating the response of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma by comparing it with 4-row ...
BEZZI, Mario +10 more
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