Immunonutrition before esophagectomy: Impact on immune surveillance mechanisms [PDF]
Preoperative oral immunonutrition was demonstrated to improve immune response and to decrease the infection rate in patients with cancer. This study aimed to assess how immunonutrition could influence the immune cell response in the mucosal ...
Agostini, Marco +12 more
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One of the hallmarks of cancer is sustained angiogenesis. Favorable results have been reported in some breast cancer (BC) patients receiving antiangiogenic therapy with bevacizumab (Bev) in combination with chemotherapy, and further knowledge on how Bev ...
Evita Maria Lindholm +8 more
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The mainstay of treatment for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is surgical resection. Traditionally, chemotherapy has been used perioperatively in locally extensive disease to improve the oncologic outcomes of surgery, with a 5-year ...
Savvas Lampridis, Marco Scarci
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Magnetic resonance imaging tumor regression shrinkage patterns after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced breast cancer: correlation with tumor biological subtypes and pathological response after therapy [PDF]
The objective of this study is to analyze magnetic resonance imaging shrinkage pattern of tumor regression after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and to evaluate its relationship with biological subtypes and pathological response.
Anastasi, Emanuela +6 more
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Epirubicin With Cyclophosphamide Followed by Docetaxel With Trastuzumab and Bevacizumab as Neoadjuvant Therapy for HER2-Positive Locally Advanced Breast Cancer or as Adjuvant Therapy for HER2-Positive Pathologic Stage III Breast Cancer: A Phase II Trial of the NSABP Foundation Research Group, FB-5 [PDF]
Background The purpose of this study was to determine the cardiac safety and clinical activity of trastuzumab and bevacizumab with docetaxel after epirubicin with cyclophosphamide (EC) in patients with HER2-positive locally advanced breast cancer (LABC ...
Ansari, Bilal +17 more
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Introduction: Neoadjuvant therapy constitutes a valuable modality for diminishing tumor volume prior to surgical resection. Nonetheless, its application encounters limitations in the context of recurrent tumors, which manifest resistance to conventional ...
Moisés Armides Franco Molina +7 more
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Background. There is a paradigm that chemotherapy is ineffective in thyroid carcinoma. The aim of our study was to find out whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy before thyroid surgery had an effect on the size of primary tumour in patients with poorly ...
Besic Nikola +3 more
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Background The oncologic safety of allogeneic blood transfusion in ovarian cancer patients is unknow. We sought to determine the prevalence and oncologic safety of perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion during interval cytoreduction surgery among ...
Kevin W McCool +5 more
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Neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer [PDF]
Objective: To evaluate the frequency of neoadjuvant therapy (NT) in women with stage I–III breast cancer in Italy and whether it is influenced by biological characteristics, screening history, and geographic area.
Carrozzi G. +10 more
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The relationship between systemic inflammation and stoma formation following anterior resection for rectal cancer: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Introduction: There is evidence that temporary defunctioning stoma formation in patients undergoing anterior resection reduces the risk of anastomotic leakage.
Horgan, Paul G. +3 more
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