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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 1986 At present, adjuvant chemotherapy exerts no significant impact on long-term survival and only occasionally provides brief palliation in head and neck cancer. The major contribution of chemotherapy has been in the preoperative period, when therapy for advanced squamous cell carcinoma may render some patients candidates for curative operations or ...
Charles A. Coltman, C. Kent Osborne
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Chemotherapy adjuvant and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2022 Yiu-Tai Li, Szu-Ting Yang, Peng-Hui Wang
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Adjuvant chemotherapy for medulloblastoma [PDF]
Cancer, 1985 The use of adjuvant chemotherapy for cerebellar medulloblastoma is controversial. Twenty-one children and adolescents were treated with adjuvant low-dose cyclophosphamide and vincristine following surgery and radiotherapy. With a mean observation period of 6 years, the disease-free survival is 81%.
Sue McIntosh +7 more
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A small footprint couch‐top support device for image‐guided radiotherapy of heavy patients
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Purpose Patients with body weights close to or above 400 lbs present unique challenges in radiation therapy since the weight limit of most treatment couches decreases as the couch‐top extends toward the treatment gantry. The purpose of this work was to develop a small footprint couch‐top support platform to safely perform image‐guided ...
Huixiao Chen +5 more
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BMC Cancer, 2022 Background There is no clear consensus on the benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy for tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage T1 (T1N0M0) breast cancer (BC). Our study investigated the effects of adjuvant chemotherapy on T1N0M0 BC patients.
Kaiwen Shen +8 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Objective: This study used model analysis to clarify the benefits and risks of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy compared with surgery alone in patients with stage II/III colorectal cancer.Methods: Clinical trials involving patients with stage II/III ...
Sijie Zha +3 more
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BMC Gastroenterology, 2020 Background Biliary tract cancers (BTC) have a poor prognosis even after curative resection because of frequent local and distant recurrences. Therefore, the importance of adjuvant therapy in BTC has been advocated to improve outcomes. However, the choice
Hyera Kim, Mi Hwa Heo, Jin Young Kim
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Cancer, 1978 In this brief presentation, an attempt was made to illustrate why it is not possible to carry over chemotherapeutic trial results from one animal cancer to another or one human cancer to another without corrections for differences in (a) staging, (b) dose response, and (c) tumor regrowth rates.
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Adjuvant Chemotherapy of Breast Cancer [PDF]
Breast Care, 2009 rence.’ The NCCN Practice Guidelines in Oncology Breast Cancer leave it open, intermediate and high-risk node negative patients are assigned to category 1: chemotherapy regimens comprising taxane and non-taxane containing regimens. Thus, guidelines currently do not provide real help.
Nitz, Ulrike +3 more
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Variations in the body mass index in Brazilian women undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 2014 PURPOSE:To evaluate variations in the body mass index in patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer, and to associate these changes with patient's age and adjuvant chemotherapy regimen.METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study in
Marcos Desídérío Ricci +7 more
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